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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has shown remarkable effectiveness in various applications, such as smart healthcare and intelligent manufacturing. However, a major challenge faced by HAR is the distribution shift across different sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhiqing Hong , Zelong Li , Xiubin Fan , Guang Yang , Baoshen Guo , Haotian Wang , Tian He , Desheng Zhang

Radio-Frequency (RF) based device-free Human Activity Recognition (HAR) rises as a promising solution for many applications. However, device-free (or contactless) sensing is often more sensitive to environment changes than device-based (or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Shuya Ding , Zhe Chen , Tianyue Zheng , Jun Luo

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

Ambient computing is gaining popularity as a major technological advancement for the future. The modern era has witnessed a surge in the advancement in healthcare systems, with viable radio frequency solutions proposed for remote and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Muhammad Zakir Khan , Jawad Ahmad , Wadii Boulila , Matthew Broadbent , Syed Aziz Shah , Anis Koubaa , Qammer H. Abbasi

Wearable HAR has improved steadily, but most progress still relies on closed-set classification, which limits real-world use. In practice, human activity is open-ended, unscripted, personalized, and often compositional, unfolding as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Mengxi Liu , Alcina Pinto , Deepika Gurung , Daniel Geissler , Paul Lukowoicz , Bo Zhou

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on resource-constrained wearable devices demands inference models that harmonize accuracy with computational efficiency. This paper introduces TinierHAR, an ultra-lightweight deep learning architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Sizhen Bian , Mengxi Liu , Vitor Fortes Rey , Daniel Geissler , Paul Lukowicz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become a spotlight in recent scientific research because of its applications in various domains such as healthcare, athletic competitions, smart cities, and smart home. While researchers focus on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Mohammadreza Heydarian , Thomas E. Doyle

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) involves the automatic identification of user activities and has gained significant research interest due to its broad applicability. Most HAR systems rely on supervised learning, which necessitates large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xian Gao , Haoyue Zhang , Zongyun Zhang , Jiacheng Ruan , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

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

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

We consider a sequence of related multivariate time series learning tasks, such as predicting failures for different instances of a machine from time series of multi-sensor data, or activity recognition tasks over different individuals from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Vibhor Gupta , Jyoti Narwariya , Pankaj Malhotra , Lovekesh Vig , Gautam Shroff

Deploying human activity recognition (HAR) at home is still rare because sensor signals vary wildly across houses, people, and time, essentially requiring in-situ data collection and training. Prior approaches use cameras to generate…

Human activity recognition (HAR) is essential for effective Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC), enabling robots to interpret and respond to human actions. This study evaluates the ability of a vision-based tactile sensor to classify 15…

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has been studied for decades, from data collection, learning models, to post-processing and result interpretations. However, the inherent hierarchy in the activities remains relatively under-explored,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-12 Jingwei Zuo , Hakim Hacid

Modern wearable and mobile devices are equipped with inertial measurement units (IMUs). Human Activity Recognition (HAR) applications running on such devices use machine-learning-based, data-driven techniques that leverage such sensor data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Alex Gn , Fan Li , S Kuniyilh , Ada Axan

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a critical role in numerous applications, including healthcare monitoring, fitness tracking, and smart environments. Traditional deep learning (DL) approaches, while effective, often require extensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Mohammad Alikhani

Despite the vast literature on Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with wearable inertial sensor data, it is perhaps surprising that there are few studies investigating semisupervised learning for HAR, particularly in a challenging scenario…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-14 Govind Narasimman , Kangkang Lu , Arun Raja , Chuan Sheng Foo , Mohamed Sabry Aly , Jie Lin , Vijay Chandrasekhar

The study explores a hybrid centralized-federated approach for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using a Transformer-based architecture. With the increasing ubiquity of edge devices, such as smartphones and wearables, a significant amount of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Wandemberg Gibaut , Alexandre Osorio , Amparo Munoz , Sildolfo F. G. Neto , Fabio Grassiotto

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

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