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Despite the widespread installation of accelerometers in almost all mobile phones and wearable devices, activity recognition using accelerometers is still immature due to the poor recognition accuracy of existing recognition methods and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Ahmed Selim , Dusit Niyato , Linda Doyle , Shaowei Lin , Hwee-Pink Tan

Traditional activity recognition systems work on the basis of training, taking a fixed set of sensors into account. In this article, we focus on the question how pattern recognition can leverage new information sources without any, or with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-01-31 David Bannach , Martin Jänicke , Vitor F. Rey , Sven Tomforde , Bernhard Sick , Paul Lukowicz

In this paper, we introduce a new hierarchical model for human action recognition using body joint locations. Our model can categorize complex actions in videos, and perform spatio-temporal annotations of the atomic actions that compose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-06-17 Ivan Lillo , Juan Carlos Niebles , Alvaro Soto

The passive body-area electrostatic field has recently been aspiringly explored for wearable motion sensing, harnessing its two thrilling characteristics: full-body motion sensitivity and environmental sensitivity, which potentially…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Sizhen Bian , Vitor Fortes Rey , Siyu Yuan , Paul Lukowicz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a significant role in the everyday life of people because of its ability to learn extensive high-level information about human activity from wearable or stationary devices. A substantial amount of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Md. Milon Islam , Sheikh Nooruddin , Fakhri Karray , Ghulam Muhammad

Wearable devices including accelerometers are increasingly being used to collect high-frequency human activity data in situ. There is tremendous potential to use such data to inform medical decision making and public health policies.…

Computation · Statistics 2020-06-12 Zekun Xu , Eric B. Laber , Ana-Maria Staicu

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) is now a research hotspot in multiple application areas. With the rise of smart wearable devices equipped with inertial measurement units (IMUs), researchers begin to utilize IMU data for HAR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Fanyi Xiao , Ling Pei , Lei Chu , Danping Zou , Wenxian Yu , Yifan Zhu , Tao Li

The problem of automatic identification of physical activities performed by human subjects is referred to as Human Activity Recognition (HAR). There exist several techniques to measure motion characteristics during these physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Antonio Bevilacqua , Kyle MacDonald , Aamina Rangarej , Venessa Widjaya , Brian Caulfield , Tahar Kechadi

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) from devices like smartphone accelerometers is a fundamental problem in ubiquitous computing. Machine learning based recognition models often perform poorly when applied to new users that were not part of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Alan Mazankiewicz , Klemens Böhm , Mario Bergés

The robust recognition and assessment of human actions are crucial in human-robot interaction (HRI) domains. While state-of-the-art models of action perception show remarkable results in large-scale action datasets, they mostly lack the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-18 German I. Parisi

Deep neural network is an effective choice to automatically recognize human actions utilizing data from various wearable sensors. These networks automate the process of feature extraction relying completely on data. However, various noises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Tanvir Mahmud , A. Q. M. Sazzad Sayyed , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah , Sun-Yuan Kung

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the central problems in fields such as healthcare, elderly care, and security at home. However, traditional HAR approaches face challenges including data scarcity, difficulties in model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xi Chen , Julien Cumin , Fano Ramparany , Dominique Vaufreydaz

We propose a novel system for active semi-supervised feature-based action recognition. Given time sequences of features tracked during movements our system clusters the sequences into actions. Our system is based on encoder-decoder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Jingyuan Li , Eli Shlizerman

Human activity recognition (HAR) in Internet of Things (IoT) environments must cope with heterogeneous sensor settings that vary across datasets, devices, body locations, sensing modalities, and channel compositions. This heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tatsuhito Hasegawa

We propose a new spatio-temporal attention based mechanism for human action recognition able to automatically attend to the hands most involved into the studied action and detect the most discriminative moments in an action. Attention is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-22 Fabien Baradel , Christian Wolf , Julien Mille

A fall is an abnormal activity that occurs rarely, so it is hard to collect real data for falls. It is, therefore, difficult to use supervised learning methods to automatically detect falls. Another challenge in using machine learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-07 Shehroz S. Khan , Babak Taati

Radar-based human activity recognition has gained attention as a privacy-preserving alternative to vision and wearable sensors, especially in sensitive environments like long-term care facilities. Micro-Doppler spectrograms derived from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Huy Trinh , Davis Liu , Munia Humaira , Peter Lee , Zhou Wang

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

In the realm of automated robotic surgery and computer-assisted interventions, understanding robotic surgical activities stands paramount. Existing algorithms dedicated to surgical activity recognition predominantly cater to pre-defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Long Bai , Guankun Wang , Jie Wang , Xiaoxiao Yang , Huxin Gao , Xin Liang , An Wang , Mobarakol Islam , Hongliang Ren