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Several techniques have been proposed to address the problem of recognizing activities of daily living from signals. Deep learning techniques applied to inertial signals have proven to be effective, achieving significant classification…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Hamza Amrani , Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano

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

The popularity and diffusion of wearable devices provides new opportunities for sensor-based human activity recognition that leverages deep learning-based algorithms. Although impressive advances have been made, two major challenges remain.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-16 Mengna Liu , Dong Xiang , Xu Cheng , Xiufeng Liu , Dalin Zhang , Shengyong Chen , Christian S. Jensen

Many deep architectures and self-supervised pre-training techniques have been proposed for human activity recognition (HAR) from wearable multimodal sensors. Scaling laws have the potential to help move towards more principled design by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tom Hoddes , Alex Bijamov , Saket Joshi , Daniel Roggen , Ali Etemad , Robert Harle , David Racz

We present WEARDA, the open source WEARable sensor Data Acquisition software package. WEARDA facilitates the acquisition of human activity data with smartwatches and is primarily aimed at researchers who require transparency, full control,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Richard M. K. van Dijk , Daniela Gawehns , Matthijs van Leeuwen

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

Quite a few people in the world have to stay under permanent surveillance for health reasons; they include diabetic people or people with some other chronic conditions, the elderly and the disabled.These groups may face heightened risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Anna Nedorubova , Alena Kadyrova , Aleksey Khlyupin

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a fundamental technology for numerous human - centered intelligent applications. Although deep learning methods have been utilized to accelerate feature extraction, issues such as multimodal data mixing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ying Yu , Siyao Li , Yixuan Jiang , Hang Xiao , Jingxi Long , Haotian Tang , Hanyu Liu , Chao Li

Neurological disorders, including stroke, spinal cord injuries, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson's disease, generally lead to diminished upper extremity (UE) function, impacting individuals' independence and quality of life. Traditional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-02 Tommaso Proietti , Andrea Bandini

Sensor-based human activity recognition is a key technology for many human-centered intelligent applications. However, this research is still in its infancy and faces many unresolved challenges. To address these, we propose a comprehensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Hanyu Liu , Ying Yu , Hang Xiao , Siyao Li , Xuze Li , Jiarui Li , Haotian Tang

Wearable computing and context awareness are the focuses of study in the field of artificial intelligence recently. One of the most appealing as well as challenging applications is the Human Activity Recognition (HAR) utilizing smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Mingtao Dong , Jindong Han

Affect recognition aims to detect a person's affective state based on observables, with the goal to e.g. provide reasoning for decision making or support mental wellbeing. Recently, besides approaches based on audio, visual or text…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-11-22 Philip Schmidt , Attila Reiss , Robert Duerichen , Kristof Van Laerhoven

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with wearable sensors is essential for applications in healthcare, fitness, and human-computer interaction. Bio-impedance sensing offers unique advantages for fine-grained motion capture but remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Mengxi Liu , Deepika Gurung , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Wearable devices record physiological and behavioral signals that can improve health predictions. While foundation models are increasingly used for such predictions, they have been primarily applied to low-level sensor data, despite…

Visual-based human action recognition can be found in various application fields, e.g., surveillance systems, sports analytics, medical assistive technologies, or human-robot interaction frameworks, and it concerns the identification and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-23 Antonios Gasteratos , Stavros N. Moutsis , Konstantinos A. Tsintotas , Yiannis Aloimonos

The current dominated wearable body motion sensor is IMU. This work presented an alternative wearable motion-sensing approach: human body capacitance (HBC, also commonly defined as body-area electric field). While being less robust in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Sizhen Bian , Vitor Fortes Rey , Siyu Yuan , Paul Lukowicz

Recognizing facial activity is a well-understood (but non-trivial) computer vision problem. However, reliable solutions require a camera with a good view of the face, which is often unavailable in wearable settings. Furthermore, in wearable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Hymalai Bello , Luis Alfredo Sanchez Marin , Sungho Suh , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Human Activity Recognition using time-series data from wearable sensors poses unique challenges due to complex temporal dependencies, sensor noise, placement variability, and diverse human behaviors. These factors, combined with the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Daniel Geissler , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Recognizing human activities from multi-channel time series data collected from wearable sensors is ever more practical. However, in real-world conditions, coherent activities and body movements could happen at the same time, like moving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Liming Zhang