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Daily life of thousands of individuals around the globe suffers due to physical or mental disability related to limb movement. The quality of life for such individuals can be made better by use of assistive applications and systems. In such…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-02 Asad Mansoor Khan , Ayesha Sadiq , Sajid Gul Khawaja , Norah Saleh Alghamdi , Muhammad Usman Akram , Ali Saeed

Inertial sensors are present in most mobile devices nowadays and such devices are used by people during most of their daily activities. In this paper, we present an approach for human activity recognition based on inertial sensors by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Otávio A. B. Penatti , Milton F. S. Santos

Activity recognition from sensor data deals with various challenges, such as overlapping activities, activity labeling, and activity detection. Although each challenge in the field of recognition has great importance, the most important one…

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

Walking is one of the most common modes of terrestrial locomotion for humans. Walking is essential for humans to perform most kinds of daily activities. When a person walks, there is a pattern in it, and it is known as gait. Gait analysis…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-04 Md Shahriar Tasjid , Ahmed Al Marouf

Recent research has shown that human motions and positions can be recognized through WiFi signals. The key intuition is that different motions and positions introduce different multi-path distortions in WiFi signals and generate different…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-10-30 Heju Li , Xukai Chen , Haohua Du , Xin He , Jianwei Qian , Peng-Jun Wan , Panlong Yang

Complex activity recognition can benefit from understanding the steps that compose them. Current datasets, however, are annotated with one label only, hindering research in this direction. In this paper, we describe a new dataset for…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-06-19 Paula Lago , Shingo Takeda , Sayeda Shamma Alia , Kohei Adachi , Brahim Bennai , Francois Charpillet , Sozo Inoue

Existing work in human activity detection classifies physical activities using a single fixed-length subset of a sensor signal. However, temporally consecutive subsets of a sensor signal are not utilized. This is not optimal for classifying…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-12-06 Niko Reunanen , Ville Könönen , Hermanni Hälvä , Jani Mäntyjärvi , Arttu Lämsä , Jussi Liikka

Compared to other biometrics, gait is difficult to conceal and has the advantage of being unobtrusive. Inertial sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, are often used to capture gait dynamics. These inertial sensors are commonly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Qin Zou , Yanling Wang , Qian Wang , Yi Zhao , Qingquan Li

The passive body-area electrostatic field has recently been aspiringly explored for wearable motion sensing, harnessing its two thrilling characteristics: full-body motion sensitivity and environmental sensitivity, which potentially…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Sizhen Bian , Vitor Fortes Rey , Siyu Yuan , Paul Lukowicz

In this article we propose the use of accelerometer embedded by default in smartphone as a cost-effective, reliable and efficient way to provide remote physical activity monitoring for the elderly and people requiring healthcare service.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2013-11-06 Hamed Ketabdar , Jalaluddin Qureshi , Pan Hui

We introduce a novel approach to user authentication called Motion ID. The method employs motion sensing provided by inertial measurement units (IMUs), using it to verify the persons identity via short time series of IMU data captured by…

In a human-centered intelligent manufacturing system, sensing and understanding of the worker's activity are the primary tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-modal approach for worker activity recognition by leveraging information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Wenjin Tao , Ming C. Leu , Zhaozheng Yin

A day in the life of a person involves a broad range of activities which are common across many people. Going beyond diurnal cycles, a central question is: to what extent do individuals act according to patterns shared across an entire…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2018-01-25 Anders Mollgaard , Sune Lehmann , Joachim Mathiesen

Wearable sensors have permeated into people's lives, ushering impactful applications in interactive systems and activity recognition. However, practitioners face significant obstacles when dealing with sensing heterogeneities, requiring…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Rebecca Adaimi , Abdelkareem Bedri , Jun Gong , Richard Kang , Joanna Arreaza-Taylor , Gerri-Michelle Pascual , Michael Ralph , Gierad Laput

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a rapidly growing field that utilizes smart devices, sensors, and algorithms to automatically classify and identify the actions of individuals within a given environment. These systems have a wide range…

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) describes the machines ability to recognize human actions. Nowadays, most people on earth are health conscious, so people are more interested in tracking their daily activities using Smartphones or Smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Sanku Satya Uday , Satti Thanuja Pavani , T. Jaya Lakshmi , Rohit Chivukula

Activity recognition computer vision algorithms can be used to detect the presence of autism-related behaviors, including what are termed "restricted and repetitive behaviors", or stimming, by diagnostic instruments. The limited data that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Peter Washington , Aaron Kline , Onur Cezmi Mutlu , Emilie Leblanc , Cathy Hou , Nate Stockham , Kelley Paskov , Brianna Chrisman , Dennis P. Wall

We introduce statistical methods for predicting the types of human activity at sub-second resolution using triaxial accelerometry data. The major innovation is that we use labeled activity data from some subjects to predict the activity…

Human activity, which usually consists of several actions, generally covers interactions among persons and or objects. In particular, human actions involve certain spatial and temporal relationships, are the components of more complicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Zhenyu Liu , Yaqiang Yao , Yan Liu , Yuening Zhu , Zhenchao Tao , Lei Wang , Yuhong Feng

This paper presents a novel approach for automatic recognition of human activities for video surveillance applications. We propose to represent an activity by a combination of category components, and demonstrate that this approach offers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-03-03 Weiyao Lin , Ming-Ting Sun , Radha Poovendran , Zhengyou Zhang