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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

Deep neural networks, including recurrent networks, have been successfully applied to human activity recognition. Unfortunately, the final representation learned by recurrent networks might encode some noise (irrelevant signal components,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-10 Ming Zeng , Haoxiang Gao , Tong Yu , Ole J. Mengshoel , Helge Langseth , Ian Lane , Xiaobing Liu

Decoding human activity accurately from wearable sensors can aid in applications related to healthcare and context awareness. The present approaches in this domain use recurrent and/or convolutional models to capture the spatio-temporal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Satya P. Singh , Aimé Lay-Ekuakille , Deepak Gangwar , Madan Kumar Sharma , Sukrit Gupta

With the increasing number of IoT devices, there is a growing demand for energy-free sensors. Human activity recognition holds immense value in numerous daily healthcare applications. However, the majority of current sensing modalities…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-11 Kaede Shintani , Hamada Rizk , Hirozumi Yamaguchi

Human Activity Recognition (HAR), based on machine and deep learning algorithms is considered one of the most promising technologies to monitor professional and daily life activities for different categories of people (e.g., athletes,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Graziano Pravadelli

Despite advances in practical and multimodal fine-grained Human Activity Recognition (HAR), a system that runs entirely on smartwatches in unconstrained environments remains elusive. We present WatchHAR, an audio and inertial-based HAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Taeyoung Yeon , Vasco Xu , Henry Hoffmann , Karan Ahuja

The primary objective of human activity recognition (HAR) is to infer ongoing human actions from sensor data, a task that finds broad applications in health monitoring, safety protection, and sports analysis. Despite proliferating research,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Hang Xiao , Ying Yu , Jiarui Li , Zhifan Yang , Haotian Tang , Hanyu Liu , Chao Li

Recently, sparse training methods have started to be established as a de facto approach for training and inference efficiency in artificial neural networks. Yet, this efficiency is just in theory. In practice, everyone uses a binary mask to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Selima Curci , Decebal Constantin Mocanu , Mykola Pechenizkiyi

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on resource-constrained wearable devices demands inference models that harmonize accuracy with computational efficiency. This paper introduces TinierHAR, an ultra-lightweight deep learning architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Sizhen Bian , Mengxi Liu , Vitor Fortes Rey , Daniel Geissler , Paul Lukowicz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) simply refers to the capacity of a machine to perceive human actions. HAR is a prominent application of advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques that utilize computer vision to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Niloy Sikder , Md. Sanaullah Chowdhury , Abu Shamim Mohammad Arif , Abdullah-Al Nahid

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has been a popular research field due to the widespread of devices with sensors and computational power (e.g., smartphones and smartwatches). Applications for HAR systems have been extensively researched in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Paulo J. S. Ferreira , João Mendes Moreira , João M. P. Cardoso

Activity recognition has become a popular research branch in the field of pervasive computing in recent years. A large number of experiments can be obtained that activity sensor-based data's characteristic in activity recognition is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-21 Li Xue , Si Xiandong , Nie Lanshun , Li Jiazhen , Ding Renjie , Zhan Dechen , Chu Dianhui

With each sensing modality exhibiting inherent strengths and limitations, multi-modal approaches for wearable Human Activity Recognition (HAR) are becoming increasingly relevant -- particularly for recognizing Activities of Daily Living…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Robin Burchard , Pascal-André Brückner , Marius Bock , Juergen Gall , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Real-time tracking of human body motion is crucial for interactive and immersive experiences in AR/VR. However, very limited sensor data about the body is available from standalone wearable devices such as HMDs (Head Mounted Devices) or AR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Alexander Winkler , Jungdam Won , Yuting Ye

To date, research on sensor-equipped mobile devices has primarily focused on the purely supervised task of human activity recognition (walking, running, etc), demonstrating limited success in inferring high-level health outcomes from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Dimitris Spathis , Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo , Soren Brage , Nicholas J. Wareham , Cecilia Mascolo

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

Privacy issues related to video camera feeds have led to a growing need for suitable alternatives that provide functionalities such as user authentication, activity classification and tracking in a noninvasive manner. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Vinoj Jayasundara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Kasun T. Hemachandra

Wearable sensor devices, which offer the advantage of recording daily objects used by a person while performing an activity, enable the feasibility of unsupervised Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Unfortunately, previous unsupervised…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Qingxin Xia , Takuya Maekawa , Takahiro Hara

In healthcare applications, there is a growing need to develop machine learning models that use data from a single source, such as that from a wrist wearable device, to monitor physical activities, assess health risks, and provide immediate…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Haoting Zhang , Donglin Zhan , Yunduan Lin , Jinghai He , Qing Zhu , Zuo-Jun Max Shen , Zeyu Zheng

Sparse sensor placement is a central challenge in the efficient characterization of complex systems when the cost of acquiring and processing data is high. Leading sparse sensing methods typically exploit either spatial or temporal…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Thomas L. Mohren , Thomas L. Daniel , Steven L. Brunton , Bingni W. Brunton