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Combining different sensing modalities with multiple positions helps form a unified perception and understanding of complex situations such as human behavior. Hence, human activity recognition (HAR) benefits from combining redundant and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hymalai Bello

Human Action Recognition (HAR) is an interesting research area in human-computer interaction used to monitor the activities of elderly and disabled individuals affected by physical and mental health. In the recent era, skeleton-based HAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Faisal Mehmood , Enqing Chen , Touqeer Abbas , Samah M. Alzanin

This short paper aims to discuss the effectiveness and performance of classical machine learning approaches for Human Activity Recognition (HAR). It proposes two important models - Extra Trees and Stacked Classifier with the emphasize on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-23 Ambareesh Ravi

Ensuring the safety and well-being of elderly and vulnerable populations in assisted living environments is a critical concern. Computer vision presents an innovative and powerful approach to predicting health risks through video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Yixuan Wang , Paul Stynes , Pramod Pathak , Cristina Muntean

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a machine learning task with important applications in healthcare especially in the context of home care of patients and older adults. HAR is often based on data collected from smart sensors, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Ali Raza , Kim Phuc Tran , Ludovic Koehl , Shujun Li , Xianyi Zeng , Khaled Benzaidi

Healthcare monitoring is crucial, especially for the daily care of elderly individuals living alone. It can detect dangerous occurrences, such as falls, and provide timely alerts to save lives. Non-invasive millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Zhanzhong Gu , Xiangjian He , Gengfa Fang , Chengpei Xu , Feng Xia , Wenjing Jia

Complex human activity recognition (CHAR) remains a pivotal challenge within ubiquitous computing, especially in the context of smart environments. Existing studies typically require meticulous labeling of both atomic and complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Yuan Sun , Navid Salami Pargoo , Taqiya Ehsan , Zhao Zhang , Jorge Ortiz

Accelerometer-based (and by extension other inertial sensors) research for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a dead-end. This sensor does not offer enough information for us to progress in the core domain of HAR - to recognize everyday…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Catherine Tong , Shyam A. Tailor , Nicholas D. Lane

In this paper, we present work in progress on activity recognition and prediction in real homes using either binary sensor data or depth video data. We present our field trial and set-up for collecting and storing the data, our methods, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-22 Flavia Dias Casagrande , Evi Zouganeli

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a research field that employs Machine Learning (ML) techniques to identify user activities. Recent studies have prioritized the development of HAR solutions directly executed on wearable devices, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hazem Hesham Yousef Shalby , Manuel Roveri

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) is a fundamental technology for numerous human - centered intelligent applications. Although deep learning methods have been utilized to accelerate feature extraction, issues such as multimodal data mixing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ying Yu , Siyao Li , Yixuan Jiang , Hang Xiao , Jingxi Long , Haotian Tang , Hanyu Liu , Chao Li

Human activity recognition (HAR) is essential in healthcare, elder care, security, and human-computer interaction. The use of precise sensor data to identify activities passively and continuously makes HAR accessible and ubiquitous.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Argha Sen , Anirban Das , Swadhin Pradhan , Sandip Chakraborty

The main streams of human activity recognition (HAR) algorithms are developed based on RGB cameras which are suffered from illumination, fast motion, privacy-preserving, and large energy consumption. Meanwhile, the biologically inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Xiao Wang , Zongzhen Wu , Bo Jiang , Zhimin Bao , Lin Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian

Human activity recognition (HAR) in ubiquitous computing has been beginning to incorporate attention into the context of deep neural networks (DNNs), in which the rich sensing data from multimodal sensors such as accelerometer and gyroscope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Wenbin Gao , Lei Zhang , Qi Teng , Jun He , Hao Wu

Indoor human activity recognition (HAR) explores the correlation between human body movements and the reflected WiFi signals to classify different activities. By analyzing WiFi signal patterns, especially the dynamics of channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-24 Parisa Fard Moshiri , Hojjat Navidan , Reza Shahbazian , Seyed Ali Ghorashi , David Windridge

Batteryless or so called passive wearables are providing new and innovative methods for human activity recognition (HAR), especially in healthcare applications for older people. Passive sensors are low cost, lightweight, unobtrusive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Alireza Abedin , S. Hamid Rezatofighi , Qinfeng Shi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

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

Given the growing trend of continual learning techniques for deep neural networks focusing on the domain of computer vision, there is a need to identify which of these generalizes well to other tasks such as human activity recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Saurav Jha , Martin Schiemer , Juan Ye

The rising demand for detecting hazardous situations has led to increased interest in radar-based human activity recognition (HAR). Conventional radar-based HAR methods predominantly rely on micro-Doppler spectrograms for recognition tasks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Do-Hyun Park , Min-Wook Jeon , Hyoung-Nam Kim