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This article investigates how the creeping wave propagation around the human thigh could be used to monitor the leg movements. The propagation path around the human thigh gives information regarding leg motions that can be used for the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-03 Sagar Dutta , Banani Basu , Fazal Ahmed Talukdar

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of human activity recognition (HAR) based on wearable sensor data. One can find many practical applications in this area, especially in the field of health care. Many machine learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-16 H. D. Nguyen , K. P. Tran , X. Zeng , L. Koehl , G. Tartare

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the key applications of health monitoring that requires continuous use of wearable devices to track daily activities. This paper proposes an Adaptive CNN for energy-efficient HAR (AHAR) suitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Nafiul Rashid , Berken Utku Demirel , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Smartphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, and ad-hoc wearable devices are being increasingly used to monitor human activities. Data acquired by the hosted sensors are usually processed by machine-learning-based algorithms to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano

Current human activity recognition (HAR) techniques regard activity labels as integer class IDs without explicitly modeling the semantics of class labels. We observe that different activity names often have shared structures. For example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xiyuan Zhang , Ranak Roy Chowdhury , Jiayun Zhang , Dezhi Hong , Rajesh K. Gupta , Jingbo Shang

Human activity recognition (HAR) research has increased in recent years due to its applications in mobile health monitoring, activity recognition, and patient rehabilitation. The typical approach is training a HAR classifier offline with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Sizhe An , Ganapati Bhat , Suat Gumussoy , Umit Ogras

Mobile and wearable devices have enabled numerous applications, including activity tracking, wellness monitoring, and human--computer interaction, that measure and improve our daily lives. Many of these applications are made possible by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shibo Zhang , Yaxuan Li , Shen Zhang , Farzad Shahabi , Stephen Xia , Yu Deng , Nabil Alshurafa

Continual learning, also known as lifelong learning, is an emerging research topic that has been attracting increasing interest in the field of machine learning. With human activity recognition (HAR) playing a key role in enabling numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Rebecca Adaimi , Edison Thomaz

Current studies in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) primarily focus on the classification of activities through sensor data, while there is not much emphasis placed on recognizing the individuals performing these activities. This type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Debashish Saha , Piyush Malik , Adrika Saha

There is an increasing demand for intelligent processing on emerging ultra-low-power internet of things (IoT) devices, and recent works have shown substantial efficiency boosts by executing inference tasks directly on the IoT device (node)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-29 Cyan Subhra Mishra , Jack Sampson , Mahmut Taylan Kandemir , Vijaykrishnan Narayanan

In the last few years there has been a growing interest in Human Activity Recognition~(HAR) topic. Sensor-based HAR approaches, in particular, has been gaining more popularity owing to their privacy preserving nature. Furthermore, due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Parviz Asghari , Elnaz Soelimani , Ehsan Nazerfard

Panoramic Activity Recognition (PAR) seeks to identify diverse human activities across different scales, from individual actions to social group and global activities in crowded panoramic scenes. PAR presents two major challenges: 1)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Sumin Lee , Yooseung Wang , Sangmin Woo , Changick Kim

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a time series classification task that focuses on identifying the motion patterns from human sensor readings. Adequate data is essential but a major bottleneck for training a generalizable HAR model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Xin Qin , Jindong Wang , Shuo Ma , Wang Lu , Yongchun Zhu , Xing Xie , Yiqiang Chen

Wi-Fi devices, akin to passive radars, can discern human activities within indoor settings due to the human body's interaction with electromagnetic signals. Current Wi-Fi sensing applications predominantly employ data-driven learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Marco Cominelli , Francesco Gringoli , Lance M. Kaplan , Mani B. Srivastava , Trevor Bihl , Erik P. Blasch , Nandini Iyer , Federico Cerutti

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

Continuous detection of human activities and presence is essential for developing a pervasive interactive smart space. Existing literature lacks robust wireless sensing mechanisms capable of continuously monitoring multiple users'…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-09-22 Argha Sen , Anirban Das , Swadhin Pradhan , Sandip Chakraborty

Background: Smartphones are now nearly ubiquitous; their numerous built-in sensors enable continuous measurement of activities of daily living, making them especially well-suited for health research. Researchers have proposed various human…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Marcin Straczkiewicz , Peter James , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

The current gold standard for human activity recognition (HAR) is based on the use of cameras. However, the poor scalability of camera systems renders them impractical in pursuit of the goal of wider adoption of HAR in mobile computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Eoin Brophy , José Juan Dominguez Veiga , Zhengwei Wang , Alan F. Smeaton , Tomas E. Ward

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

Human Activity Recognition supports applications in healthcare, manufacturing, and human-machine interaction. LiDAR point clouds offer a privacy-preserving alternative to cameras and are robust to illumination. We propose a HAR method based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sasan Sharifipour , Constantino Álvarez Casado , Le Nguyen , Tharindu Ekanayake , Manuel Lage Cañellas , Nhi Nguyen , Miguel Bordallo López