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Recent advances in computer vision offer opportunities to automate this process.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The proposed method follows a three-stage process: (1) BlazePose, a real-time pose estimation model, detects 22 key body joints, followed by low-pass filtering to reduce noise. (2) Kinematic features are extracted from these joints, and video frames are classified as lifting or nonlifting to identify lifting phases and lift start and end times. (3) RNLE multipliers are estimated at these lift timings to compute the recommended weight limit (RWL).<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The method achieved a mean absolute timing error of 0.25\u00a0s for lift timing identification and showed strong correlations between estimated and ground-truth multipliers. The mean absolute error for RWL estimation was 1.58\u00a0kg, with a correlation coefficient of 0.91.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>These results demonstrate the feasibility of using computer vision to automate the RNLE. 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