Vision-Based Mistake Analysis in Procedural Activities: A Review of Advances and Challenges

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.19292v1
• Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 06:48:31 GMT
• Title: Vision-Based Mistake Analysis in Procedural Activities: A Review of Advances and Challenges
• Authors: Konstantinos Bacharidis, Antonis A. Argyros,
• Abstract summary: Mistake analysis in procedural activities is a critical area of research with applications spanning industrial automation, physical rehabilitation, education and human-robot collaboration.<n>This paper reviews vision-based methods for detecting and predicting mistakes in structured tasks, focusing on procedural and executional errors.
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• Abstract: Mistake analysis in procedural activities is a critical area of research with applications spanning industrial automation, physical rehabilitation, education and human-robot collaboration. This paper reviews vision-based methods for detecting and predicting mistakes in structured tasks, focusing on procedural and executional errors. By leveraging advancements in computer vision, including action recognition, anticipation and activity understanding, vision-based systems can identify deviations in task execution, such as incorrect sequencing, use of improper techniques, or timing errors. We explore the challenges posed by intra-class variability, viewpoint differences and compositional activity structures, which complicate mistake detection. Additionally, we provide a comprehensive overview of existing datasets, evaluation metrics and state-of-the-art methods, categorizing approaches based on their use of procedural structure, supervision levels and learning strategies. Open challenges, such as distinguishing permissible variations from true mistakes and modeling error propagation are discussed alongside future directions, including neuro-symbolic reasoning and counterfactual state modeling. This work aims to establish a unified perspective on vision-based mistake analysis in procedural activities, highlighting its potential to enhance safety, efficiency and task performance across diverse domains.

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