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As of today, state-of-the-art activity recognition from wearable sensors relies on algorithms being trained to classify fixed windows of data. In contrast, video-based Human Activity Recognition, known as Temporal Action Localization (TAL),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Marius Bock , Michael Moeller , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Sensor-based activity recognition seeks the profound high-level knowledge about human activities from multitudes of low-level sensor readings. Conventional pattern recognition approaches have made tremendous progress in the past years.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Shuji Hao , Xiaohui Peng , Lisha Hu

Deep learning-based human activity recognition (HAR) methods have shown great promise in the applications of smart healthcare systems and wireless body sensor network (BSN). Despite their demonstrated performance in laboratory settings, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Baichun Wei , Chunzhi Yi , Qi Zhang , Haiqi Zhu , Jianfei Zhu , Feng Jiang

Accelerometers enable an objective measurement of physical activity levels among groups of individuals in free-living environments, providing high-resolution detail about physical activity changes at different time scales. Current…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-21 Marcos Matabuena , Alexander Petersen

User dependence remains one of the most difficult general problems in Human Activity Recognition (HAR), in particular when using wearable sensors. This is due to the huge variability of the way different people execute even the simplest…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Sungho Suh , Vitor Fortes Rey , Paul Lukowicz

Previous work has demonstrated that virtual accelerometry data, extracted from videos using cross-modality transfer approaches like IMUTube, is beneficial for training complex and effective human activity recognition (HAR) models. Systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zikang Leng , Yash Jain , Hyeokhyen Kwon , Thomas Plötz

We propose the use of self-supervised learning for human activity recognition with smartphone accelerometer data. Our proposed solution consists of two steps. First, the representations of unlabeled input signals are learned by training a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-03 Setareh Rahimi Taghanaki , Michael Rainbow , Ali Etemad

Anatomical movements of the human body can change the channel state information (CSI) of wireless signals in an indoor environment. These changes in the CSI signals can be used for human activity recognition (HAR), which is a predominant…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Hojjat Salehinejad , Shahrokh Valaee

Recognizing human activity plays a significant role in the advancements of human-interaction applications in healthcare, personal fitness, and smart devices. Many papers presented various techniques for human activity representation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Reem Abdel-Salam , Rana Mostafa , Mayada Hadhood

The research on human activity recognition has provided novel solutions to many applications like healthcare, sports, and user profiling. Considering the complex nature of human activities, it is still challenging even after effective and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ranjit Kolkar , Geetha V

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

To fluently collaborate with people, robots need the ability to recognize human activities accurately. Although modern robots are equipped with various sensors, robust human activity recognition (HAR) still remains a challenging task for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Md Mofijul Islam , Tariq Iqbal

Wearable devices running Human Activity Recognition(HAR) on Inertial Measurement Units~(IMUs) waste energy by performing continuous classification for each window, even during long periods of unchanged activity. We address this with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Sara Rimoldi , Arianna De Vecchi , Hazem Hesham Yousef Shalby , Federica Villa

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are successful deep learning models in the field of computer vision. To get the maximum advantage of CNN model for Human Action Recognition (HAR) using inertial sensor data, in this paper, we use 4 types…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-31 Zeeshan Ahmad , Naimul Khan

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

Human activity recognition is critical for applications such as early intervention and health analytics. Traditional activity recognition relies on inertial measurement units (IMUs), which are resource intensive and require calibration.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Sina Montazeri , Waltenegus Dargie , Yunhe Feng , Kewei Sha

Context-aware Human Activity Recognition (CHAR) is challenging due to the need to recognize the user's current activity from signals that vary significantly with contextual factors such as phone placements and the varied styles with which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Wen Ge , Guanyi Mou , Emmanuel O. Agu , Kyumin Lee

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable sensor data has become a central task in mobile computing, healthcare, and human-computer interaction. Despite the success of traditional deep learning models such as CNNs and RNNs, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yunbo Liu , Xukui Qin , Yifan Gao , Xiang Li , Chengwei Feng

Multimodal sensors provide complementary information to develop accurate machine-learning methods for human activity recognition (HAR), but introduce significantly higher computational load, which reduces efficiency. This paper proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ziqi Gao , Yuntao Wang , Jianguo Chen , Junliang Xing , Shwetak Patel , Xin Liu , Yuanchun Shi

The extensive ubiquitous availability of sensors in smart devices and the Internet of Things (IoT) has opened up the possibilities for implementing sensor-based activity recognition. As opposed to traditional sensor time-series processing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-09 Danial Ahangarani , Mohammad Shirazi , Navid Ashraf