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Human activity recognition is a core technology for applications such as rehabilitation, health monitoring, and human-computer interactions. Wearable devices, especially IMU sensors, provide rich features of human movements at a reasonable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-16 Mohammad Mohammadzadeh , Ali Ghadami , Alireza Taheri , Saeed Behzadipour

Human activity recognition (HAR) is often limited by the scarcity of labeled datasets due to the high cost and complexity of real-world data collection. To mitigate this, recent work has explored generating virtual inertial measurement unit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zikang Leng , Archith Iyer , Thomas Plötz

Predicting human daily behavior is challenging due to the complexity of routine patterns and short-term fluctuations. While data-driven models have improved behavior prediction by leveraging empirical data from various platforms and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Haoxin Li , Jingtao Ding , Jiahui Gong , Yong Li

With an increasing number of elders living alone, care-giving from a distance becomes a compelling need, particularly for safety. Real-time monitoring and action recognition are essential to raise an alert timely when abnormal behaviors or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Han Sun , Yu Chen

Human activity recognition using smart home sensors is one of the bases of ubiquitous computing in smart environments and a topic undergoing intense research in the field of ambient assisted living. The increasingly large amount of data…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Deepika Singh , Erinc Merdivan , Ismini Psychoula , Johannes Kropf , Sten Hanke , Matthieu Geist , Andreas Holzinger

Developing artificial intelligence based assistive systems to aid Persons with Dementia (PwD) requires large amounts of training data. However, data collection poses ethical, legal, economic, and logistic issues. Synthetic data generation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Muhammad Salman Shaukat , Bjarne Christian Hiller , Sebastian Bader , Thomas Kirste

Epilepsy is a chronic neurological disorder affecting more than 65 million people worldwide and manifested by recurrent unprovoked seizures. The unpredictability of seizures not only degrades the quality of life of the patients, but it can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Damian Pascual , Amir Aminifar , David Atienza , Philippe Ryvlin , Roger Wattenhofer

Round-the-clock monitoring of human behavior and emotions is required in many healthcare applications which is very expensive but can be automated using machine learning (ML) and sensor technologies. Unfortunately, the lack of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-17 Bonny Banerjee , Masoumeh Heidari Kapourchali , Murchana Baruah , Mousumi Deb , Kenneth Sakauye , Mette Olufsen

Developing robotic systems capable of robustly executing long-horizon manipulation tasks with human-level dexterity is challenging, as such tasks require both physical dexterity and seamless sequencing of manipulation skills while robustly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Weikang Wan , Jiawei Fu , Xiaodi Yuan , Yifeng Zhu , Hao Su

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

Scaling data volume and diversity is critical for generalizing embodied intelligence. While synthetic data generation offers a scalable alternative to expensive physical data acquisition, transferring robotic manipulation policies from…

Skeleton-based human action recognition is a powerful approach for understanding human behaviour from pose data, but collecting large-scale, diverse, and well-annotated 3D skeleton datasets is both expensive and labor-intensive. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Xu Dong , Wanqing Li , Anthony Adeyemi-Ejeye , Andrew Gilbert

Advances in deep learning for human activity recognition have been relatively limited due to the lack of large labelled datasets. In this study, we leverage self-supervised learning techniques on the UK-Biobank activity tracker dataset--the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Hang Yuan , Shing Chan , Andrew P. Creagh , Catherine Tong , Aidan Acquah , David A. Clifton , Aiden Doherty

Using a deep generative machine learning approach, we synthesise human activity participations and scheduling; i.e. the choices of what activities to participate in and when. Activity schedules are a core component of many applied…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Fred Shone , Tim Hillel

Collecting large amounts of real-world interaction data to train general robotic policies is often prohibitively expensive, thus motivating the use of simulation data. However, existing methods for data generation have generally focused on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Lirui Wang , Yiyang Ling , Zhecheng Yuan , Mohit Shridhar , Chen Bao , Yuzhe Qin , Bailin Wang , Huazhe Xu , Xiaolong Wang

Although synthetic training data has been shown to be beneficial for tasks such as human pose estimation, its use for RGB human action recognition is relatively unexplored. Our goal in this work is to answer the question whether synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Gül Varol , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid , Andrew Zisserman

The recent successes in applying deep learning techniques to solve standard computer vision problems has aspired researchers to propose new computer vision problems in different domains. As previously established in the field, training data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Mehran Khodabandeh , Hamid Reza Vaezi Joze , Ilya Zharkov , Vivek Pradeep

Automatically detecting vital signs in videos, such as the estimation of heart and respiration rates, is a challenging research problem in computer vision with important applications in the medical field. One of the key difficulties in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Florin Condrea , Victor-Andrei Ivan , Marius Leordeanu

Measures of Activity of Daily Living (ADL) are an important indicator of overall health but difficult to measure in-clinic. Automated and accurate human activity recognition (HAR) using wrist-worn accelerometers enables practical and cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Niranjan Sridhar , Lance Myers

Facial recognition has become a widely used method for authentication and identification, with applications for secure access and locating missing persons. Its success is largely attributed to deep learning, which leverages large datasets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Pedro Vidal , Bernardo Biesseck , Luiz E. L. Coelho , Roger Granada , David Menotti