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Physical activity recognition (PAR) using wearable devices can provide valued information regarding an individual's degree of functional ability and lifestyle. In this regards, smartphone-based physical activity recognition is a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Muhammad Ahmad , Adil Mehmood Khan , Manuel Mazzara , Salvatore Distefano

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

We address the well-known wearable activity recognition problem of having to work with sensors that are non-optimal in terms of information they provide but have to be used due to wearability/usability concerns (e.g. the need to work with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Conventional human activity recognition (HAR) relies on classifiers trained to predict discrete activity classes, inherently limiting recognition to activities explicitly present in the training set. Such classifiers would invariably fail,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Manufacturing industries strive to improve production efficiency and product quality by deploying advanced sensing and control systems. Wearable sensors are emerging as a promising solution for achieving this goal, as they can provide…

Activity recognition systems that are capable of estimating human activities from wearable inertial sensors have come a long way in the past decades. Not only have state-of-the-art methods moved away from feature engineering and have fully…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Marius Bock , Alexander Hoelzemann , Michael Moeller , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a research field that employs Machine Learning (ML) techniques to identify user activities. Recent studies have prioritized the development of HAR solutions directly executed on wearable devices, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hazem Hesham Yousef Shalby , Manuel Roveri

Wearable Human Activity Recognition (WHAR) is a prominent research area within ubiquitous computing, whose core lies in effectively modeling intra- and inter-sensor spatio-temporal relationships from multi-modal time series data. Existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wang Chenglong , Zhuo Yan , Ding Wenbo , Chen Xinlei

Photoplethysmography (PPG) sensors allow for non-invasive and comfortable heart-rate (HR) monitoring, suitable for compact wrist-worn devices. Unfortunately, Motion Artifacts (MAs) severely impact the monitoring accuracy, causing high…

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using on-body devices identifies specific human actions in unconstrained environments. HAR is challenging due to the inter and intra-variance of human movements; moreover, annotated datasets from on-body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Shrutarv Awasthi , Fernando Moya Rueda , Gernot A. Fink

Unlike conventional cameras which capture video at a fixed frame rate, Dynamic Vision Sensors (DVS) record only changes in pixel intensity values. The output of DVS is simply a stream of discrete ON/OFF events based on the polarity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Stefanie Anna Baby , Bimal Vinod , Chaitanya Chinni , Kaushik Mitra

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become one of the leading research topics of the last decade. As sensing technologies have matured and their economic costs have declined, a host of novel applications, e.g., in healthcare, industry,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Fadi Al Machot , Graziano Pravadelli , Philipp H. Kindt

Wearable devices have strict power and memory limitations. As a result, there is a need to optimize the power consumption on those devices without sacrificing the accuracy. This paper presents AdaSense: a sensing, feature extraction and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Marina Neseem , Jon Nelson , Sherief Reda

Various health-care applications such as assisted living, fall detection etc., require modeling of user behavior through Human Activity Recognition (HAR). HAR using mobile- and wearable-based deep learning algorithms have been on the rise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Gautham Krishna Gudur , Prahalathan Sundaramoorthy , Venkatesh Umaashankar

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been a research focus in the field of ubiquitous and mobile computing for years. In recent years, many deep models have been applied to HAR problems. However, deep learning methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Yujiao Hao , Boyu Wang , Rong Zheng

Ambient sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) in smart homes remains challenging due to the need for real-time inference, spatially grounded reasoning, and context-aware temporal modeling. Existing approaches often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zishuai Liu , Weihang You , Jin Lu , Fei Dou

In the recent years there has been a growing interest in techniques able to automatically recognize activities performed by people. This field is known as Human Activity recognition (HAR). HAR can be crucial in monitoring the wellbeing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Anna Ferrari , Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano

Wearable sensor-based Human Action Recognition (HAR) has made significant strides in recent times. However, the accuracy performance of wearable sensor-based HAR is currently still lagging behind that of visual modalities-based systems,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jianyuan Ni , Hao Tang , Anne H. H. Ngu , Gaowen Liu , Yan Yan

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has found application in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in competitive sports. To date, most Machine Learning (ML) approaches for HAR have relied on offline (batch) training, imposing higher computational and…

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has recently received remarkable attention in numerous applications such as assisted living and remote monitoring. Existing solutions based on sensors and vision technologies have obtained achievements but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Yanling Hao , Zhiyuan Shi , Yuanwei Liu