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Bridging the visual-to-physical gap: physically aligned representations for fall risk analysis.

Xianqi Zhang^1,2, Xingtao Wang¹, Xiaopeng Fan^1,2,3

¹Faculty of Computing, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China.

Frontiers in Medicine

|May 21, 2026

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PHARL (PHysics-aware Alignment Representation Learning) learns fall representations from video without clinical labels by integrating physics simulation. This approach improves fall analysis and risk prediction, even revealing an emergent severity ordering.

Area of Science:

Computer Vision
Biomechanics
Machine Learning

Background:

Vision-based fall analysis faces challenges inferring physical outcomes from visual data due to subtle differences in mechanics.
Supervised injury prediction is hindered by the difficulty in obtaining reliable clinical labels for falls, often due to video ambiguities and ethical constraints.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop a framework for learning physically meaningful fall representations without requiring clinical outcome labels.
To improve the quality of risk-aligned representations in fall analysis and maintain performance in fall detection.

Main Methods:

Proposed PHARL (PHysics-aware Alignment Representation Learning) framework.
Introduced trajectory-level temporal consistency and physics-aware alignment using simulation-derived contact outcomes to structure the embedding space.

Keywords:

contrastive learning deep learning embedding geometry fall risk analysis representation learning

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Associated video windows with simulation descriptors for capturing impact-relevant dynamics in a feed-forward manner.

Main Results:

PHARL consistently improved risk-aligned representation quality compared to visual-only baselines across four public datasets.
Maintained strong performance on fall detection tasks.
Demonstrated an emergent, interpretable ordinal structure in the learned representation space (Head > Trunk > Supported) without explicit ordinal supervision.

Conclusions:

Physics-aware regularization can induce meaningful structural priors in representation learning for fall analysis.
PHARL offers a promising direction for label-efficient fall analysis by leveraging physics information as a structural regularizer.
The framework successfully addresses the bottleneck of inferring physical outcomes from visual fall data.