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With the advancement of IoT technology, recognizing user activities with machine learning methods is a promising way to provide various smart services to users. High-quality data with privacy protection is essential for deploying such…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Hyunju Kim , Geon Kim , Taehoon Lee , Kisoo Kim , Dongman Lee

With the global population ageing, it is crucial to enable individuals to live independently and safely in their homes. Using ubiquitous sensors such as Passive InfraRed sensors (PIR) and door sensors is drawing increasing interest for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Marina Vicini , Martin Rudorfer , Zhuangzhuang Dai , Luis J. Manso

In human activity recognition (HAR), activity labels have typically been encoded in one-hot format, which has a recent shift towards using textual representations to provide contextual knowledge. Here, we argue that HAR should be anchored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Shuheng Li , Jiayun Zhang , Xiaohan Fu , Xiyuan Zhang , Jingbo Shang , Rajesh K. Gupta

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a crucial technology for many applications such as smart homes, surveillance, human assistance and health care. This technology utilises pattern recognition and can contribute to the development of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Farhad Nazari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer , Abbas Khosravi

Providing care for ageing populations is an onerous task, and as life expectancy estimates continue to rise, the number of people that require senior care is growing rapidly. This paper proposes a methodology based on Transformer Neural…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-25 Luke Hicks , Ariel Ruiz-Garcia , Vasile Palade , Ibrahim Almakky

Human activity understanding is of widespread interest in artificial intelligence and spans diverse applications like health care and behavior analysis. Although there have been advances in deep learning, it remains challenging. The object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Yong-Lu Li , Xinpeng Liu , Xiaoqian Wu , Yizhuo Li , Zuoyu Qiu , Liang Xu , Yue Xu , Hao-Shu Fang , Cewu Lu

Recent advances in Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and the reduction in the cost of sensors have encouraged the development of smart environments, such as smart homes. Smart homes can offer home assistance services to improve the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Damien Bouchabou , Sao Mai Nguyen , Christophe Lohr , Benoit Leduc , Ioannis Kanellos

Computer-based assistants have recently attracted much interest due to its applicability to ambient assisted living. Such assistants have to detect and recognize the high-level activities and goals performed by the assisted human beings. In…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Roger Granada , Ramon Fraga Pereira , Juarez Monteiro , Leonardo Amado , Rodrigo C. Barros , Duncan Ruiz , Felipe Meneguzzi

Combining different sensing modalities with multiple positions helps form a unified perception and understanding of complex situations such as human behavior. Hence, human activity recognition (HAR) benefits from combining redundant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hymalai Bello

Perception in fields like robotics, manufacturing, and data analysis generates large volumes of temporal and spatial data to effectively capture their environments. However, sorting through this data for specific scenarios is a meticulous…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jacob Anderson , Georgios Fainekos , Bardh Hoxha , Hideki Okamoto , Danil Prokhorov

Human activity recognition has wide applications in medical research and human survey system. In this project, we design a robust activity recognition system based on a smartphone. The system uses a 3-dimentional smartphone accelerometer as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Amin Rasekh , Chien-An Chen , Yan Lu

Human activity recognition (HAR) is fundamental in human-robot collaboration (HRC), enabling robots to respond to and dynamically adapt to human intentions. This paper introduces a HAR system combining a modular data glove equipped with…

We present a new framework for vision-based estimation of calorific expenditure from RGB-D data - the first that is validated on physical gas exchange measurements and applied to daily living scenarios. Deriving a person's energy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-28 Lili Tao , Tilo Burghardt , Majid Mirmehdi , Dima Damen , Ashley Cooper , Sion Hannuna , Massimo Camplani , Adeline Paiement , Ian Craddock

Significant progress has been made in scene understanding which seeks to build 3D, metric and object-oriented representations of the world. Concurrently, reinforcement learning has made impressive strides largely enabled by advances in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-23 Zachary Ravichandran , J. Daniel Griffith , Benjamin Smith , Costas Frost

We consider human activity recognition (HAR) from wearable sensor data in manual-work processes, like warehouse order-picking. Such structured domains can often be partitioned into distinct process steps, e.g., packaging or transporting.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Stefan Lüdtke , Fernando Moya Rueda , Waqas Ahmed , Gernot A. Fink , Thomas Kirste

The ubiquitous availability of smartphones and smartwatches with integrated inertial measurement units (IMUs) enables straightforward capturing of human activities. For specific applications of sensor based human activity recognition (HAR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Megha Thukral , Harish Haresamudram , Thomas Ploetz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) describes the machines ability to recognize human actions. Nowadays, most people on earth are health conscious, so people are more interested in tracking their daily activities using Smartphones or Smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Sanku Satya Uday , Satti Thanuja Pavani , T. Jaya Lakshmi , Rohit Chivukula

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is an ongoing research topic. It has applications in medical support, sports, fitness, social networking, human-computer interfaces, senior care, entertainment, surveillance, and the list goes on.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Hamza Ali Imran , Saad Wazir , Usman Iftikhar , Usama Latif

We introduce a novel framework for change point detection in spherical functional autoregressive (SPHAR) processes, enabling the identification of structural breaks in spatio-temporal random fields on the sphere. Our LASSO-regularized…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-12-04 Federica Spoto , Alessia Caponera , Pierpaolo Brutti

In the human activity recognition research area, prior studies predominantly concentrate on leveraging advanced algorithms on public datasets to enhance recognition performance, little attention has been paid to executing real-time kitchen…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Mengxi Liu , Sungho Suh , Juan Felipe Vargas , Bo Zhou , Agnes Grünerbl , Paul Lukowicz