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The patterns of inhalation and exhalation contain important physiological signals that can be used to anticipate human behavior, health trends, and vital parameters. Human activity recognition (HAR) is fundamentally connected to these vital…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ashutosh Kumar Sinha , Ayush Patel , Mitul Dudhat , Pritam Anand , Rahul Mishra

Rehabilitation therapy for stroke patients faces a supply shortage despite the increasing demand. To address this issue, remote monitoring systems that reduce the burden on medical staff are emerging as a viable alternative. A key component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ye-eun Kim , Suhyeon Lim , Andrew J. Choi

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

Processing sequential multi-sensor data becomes important in many tasks due to the dramatic increase in the availability of sensors that can acquire sequential data over time. Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the fields which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zeyd Boukhers , Danniene Wete , Steffen Staab

Human health is closely associated with their daily behavior and environment. However, keeping a healthy lifestyle is still challenging for most people as it is difficult to recognize their living behaviors and identify their surrounding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Mengxi Liu , Sungho Suh , Bo Zhou , Agnes Gruenerbl , Paul Lukowicz

Daily activity monitoring systems used in households provide vital information for health status, particularly with aging residents. Multiple approaches have been introduced to achieve such goals, typically obtrusive and non-obtrusive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Dina E. Abdelaleem , Hassan M. Ahmed , M. Sami Soliman , Tarek M. Said

Designing a scheme that can achieve a good performance in predicting single person activities and group activities is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel robust and efficient human activity recognition scheme called ReHAR,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Xin Li , Mooi Choo Chuah

The combination of increased life expectancy and falling birth rates is resulting in an aging population. Wearable Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (WSHAR) emerges as a promising assistive technology to support the daily lives of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Jianyuan Ni , Hao Tang , Syed Tousiful Haque , Yan Yan , Anne H. H. Ngu

Human activity recognition (HAR) ideally relies on data from wearable or environment-instrumented sensors sampled at regular intervals, enabling standard neural network models optimized for consistent time-series data as input. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Mengxi Liu , Daniel Geißler , Sizhen Bian , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Human action recognition (HAR) in videos is a fundamental research topic in computer vision. It consists mainly in understanding actions performed by humans based on a sequence of visual observations. In recent years, HAR have witnessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Soufiane Lamghari , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier

As a critical component of Wearable AI, IMU-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry in recent years. Although HAR performance has improved considerably in specific scenarios,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Yize Cai , Baoshen Guo , Flora Salim , Zhiqing Hong

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become an increasingly popular task for embedded devices such as smartwatches. Most HAR systems for ultra-low power devices are based on classic Machine Learning (ML) models, whereas Deep Learning (DL),…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-16 Francesco Daghero , Daniele Jahier Pagliari , Massimo Poncino

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

Human Activity Recognition is a time-series analysis problem. A popular analysis procedure used by the community assumes an optimal window length to design recognition pipelines. However, in the scenario of smart homes, where activities are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Shruthi K. Hiremath , Thomas Ploetz

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

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

Recognizing human activity plays a significant role in the advancements of human-interaction applications in healthcare, personal fitness, and smart devices. Many papers presented various techniques for human activity representation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Reem Abdel-Salam , Rana Mostafa , Mayada Hadhood

Transformers have excelled in natural language processing and computer vision, paving their way to sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Previous studies show that transformers outperform their counterparts exclusively when they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Clayton Souza Leite , Henry Mauranen , Aziza Zhanabatyrova , Yu Xiao

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

Aging population ratios are rising significantly. Meanwhile, smart home based health monitoring services are evolving rapidly to become a viable alternative to traditional healthcare solutions. Such services can augment qualitative analyses…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Syed Yusha Kareem , Luca Buoncompagni , Fulvio Mastrogiovanni