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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a crucial technology for many applications such as smart homes, surveillance, human assistance and health care. This technology utilises pattern recognition and can contribute to the development of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Farhad Nazari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer , Abbas Khosravi

In smart healthcare, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is considered to be an efficient model in pervasive computation from sensor readings. The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in the home or community helps the people in providing independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Pankaj Khatiwada , Ayan Chatterjee , Matrika Subedi

Human Activity Recognition~(HAR) is the classification of human movement, captured using one or more sensors either as wearables or embedded in the environment~(e.g. depth cameras, pressure mats). State-of-the-art methods of HAR rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Anjana Wijekoon , Nirmalie Wiratunga

Human activity recognition (HAR) using ambient sensors in smart homes has numerous applications for human healthcare and wellness. However, building general-purpose HAR models that can be deployed to new smart home environments requires a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Megha Thukral , Sourish Gunesh Dhekane , Shruthi K. Hiremath , Harish Haresamudram , Thomas Ploetz

Activity recognition using built-in sensors in smart and wearable devices provides great opportunities to understand and detect human behavior in the wild and gives a more holistic view of individuals' health and well being. Numerous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Mehrdad Fazli , Kamran Kowsari , Erfaneh Gharavi , Laura Barnes , Afsaneh Doryab

Ambient sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) in smart homes remains challenging due to the need for real-time inference, spatially grounded reasoning, and context-aware temporal modeling. Existing approaches often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zishuai Liu , Weihang You , Jin Lu , Fei Dou

In this paper, we report a hierarchical deep learning model for classification of complex human activities using motion sensors. In contrast to traditional Human Activity Recognition (HAR) models used for event-based activity recognition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Eric Rosen , Doruk Senkal

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

Despite advances in practical and multimodal fine-grained Human Activity Recognition (HAR), a system that runs entirely on smartwatches in unconstrained environments remains elusive. We present WatchHAR, an audio and inertial-based HAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Taeyoung Yeon , Vasco Xu , Henry Hoffmann , Karan Ahuja

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

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 (HAR) is a well-studied field with research dating back to the 1980s. Over time, HAR technologies have evolved significantly from manual feature extraction, rule-based algorithms, and simple machine learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Duc-Anh Nguyen , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is the identification and classification of static and dynamic human activities, which find applicability in domains like healthcare, entertainment, security, and cyber-physical systems. Traditional HAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Nuno Paulino , Mariana Oliveira , Francisco Ribeiro , Luís Outeiro , Pedro A. Lopes , Francisco Vilarinho , Sofia Inácio , Luís M. Pessoa

This paper presents a comprehensive dataset intended to evaluate passive Human Activity Recognition (HAR) and localization techniques with measurements obtained from synchronized Radio-Frequency (RF) devices and vision-based sensors. The…

Most recent work on vision-based human activity recognition (HAR) focuses on designing complex deep learning models for the task. In so doing, there is a requirement for large datasets to be collected. As acquiring and processing large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Bruce X. B. Yu , Yan Liu , Keith C. C. Chan

As the percentage of elderly people in developed countries increases worldwide, the healthcare of this collective is a worrying matter, especially if it includes the preservation of their autonomy. In this direction, many studies are being…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 F. Xavier Gaya-Morey , Cristina Manresa-Yee , Jose M. Buades-Rubio

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the fundamental building blocks of human assistive devices like orthoses and exoskeletons. There are different approaches to HAR depending on the application. Numerous studies have been focused on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Farhad Nazari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer , Abbas Khosravi

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

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

Today, many of the home automation systems deployed are mostly controlled by humans. This control by humans restricts the automation of home appliances to an extent. Also, most of the deployed home automation systems use the Internet of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-04-29 Shashank Kotyan , Nishant Kumar , Pankaj Kumar Sahu , Venkanna Udutalapally