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Being able to detect and recognize human activities is essential for several applications, including personal assistive robotics. In this paper, we perform detection and recognition of unstructured human activity in unstructured…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-06-25 Jaeyong Sung , Colin Ponce , Bart Selman , Ashutosh Saxena

Wearable devices such as smartwatches are becoming increasingly popular tools for objectively monitoring physical activity in free-living conditions. To date, research has primarily focused on the purely supervised task of human activity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Dimitris Spathis , Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo , Soren Brage , Nicholas J. Wareham , Cecilia Mascolo

Clinical trials that investigate interventions on physical activity often use accelerometers to measure step count at a very granular level, often in 5-second epochs. Participants typically wear the accelerometer for a week-long period at…

Despite the widespread installation of accelerometers in almost all mobile phones and wearable devices, activity recognition using accelerometers is still immature due to the poor recognition accuracy of existing recognition methods and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Ahmed Selim , Dusit Niyato , Linda Doyle , Shaowei Lin , Hwee-Pink Tan

Physical activity is disrupted in many psychiatric disorders. Advances in everyday technologies (e.g. accelerometers in smart phones) opens exciting possibilities for non-intrusive acquisition of activity data. Successful exploitation of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-12-19 Justin J. Chapman , James A. Roberts , Vinh T. Nguyen , Michael Breakspear

In this paper, we propose a self-supervised learning solution for human activity recognition with smartphone accelerometer data. We aim to develop a model that learns strong representations from accelerometer signals, in order to perform…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Setareh Rahimi Taghanaki , Michael Rainbow , Ali Etemad

Cohort studies are increasingly using accelerometers for physical activity and sedentary behavior estimation. These devices tend to be less error-prone than self-report, can capture activity throughout the day, and are economical. However,…

Accelerometer data is commonplace in physical activity research, exercise science, and public health studies, where the goal is to understand and compare physical activity differences between groups and/or subject populations, and to…

Applications · Statistics 2023-06-14 Rui Xie , Lulu Chen , Joon-Hyuk Park , Jeffrey Stout , Ladda Thiamwong

In this study, importance of user inputs is studied in the context of personalizing human activity recognition models using incremental learning. Inertial sensor data from three body positions are used, and the classification is based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Pekka Siirtola , Heli Koskimäki , Juha Röning

In this paper, we propose a method for temporal segmentation of human repetitive actions based on frequency analysis of kinematic parameters, zero-velocity crossing detection, and adaptive k-means clustering. Since the human motion data may…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-15 Qifei Wang , Gregorij Kurillo , Ferda Ofli , Ruzena Bajcsy

To date, research on sensor-equipped mobile devices has primarily focused on the purely supervised task of human activity recognition (walking, running, etc), demonstrating limited success in inferring high-level health outcomes from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Dimitris Spathis , Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo , Soren Brage , Nicholas J. Wareham , Cecilia Mascolo

Motor behaviour analysis is essential to biomedical research and clinical diagnostics as it provides a non-invasive strategy for identifying motor impairment and its change caused by interventions. State-of-the-art instrumented movement…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-07 Biagio Brattoli , Uta Buechler , Michael Dorkenwald , Philipp Reiser , Linard Filli , Fritjof Helmchen , Anna-Sophia Wahl , Bjoern Ommer

Human action recognition has been one of the most active fields of research in computer vision for last years. Two dimensional action recognition methods are facing serious challenges such as occlusion and missing the third dimension of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-26 Mozhgan Mokari , Hoda Mohammadzade , Benyamin Ghojogh

This paper presents a new method for unsupervised segmentation of complex activities from video into multiple steps, or sub-activities, without any textual input. We propose an iterative discriminative-generative approach which alternates…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Fadime Sener , Angela Yao

We present a novel approach to semi-supervised learning which is based on statistical physics. Most of the former work in the field of semi-supervised learning classifies the points by minimizing a certain energy function, which corresponds…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Gad Getz , Noam Shental , Eytan Domany

Human motion detection is getting considerable attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven healthcare systems. Human motion can be used to provide remote healthcare solutions for vulnerable people by identifying particular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 William Taylor , Syed Aziz Shah , Kia Dashtipour , Adnan Zahid , Qammer H. Abbasi , Muhammad Ali Imran

Skeleton-based temporal action segmentation is a fundamental yet challenging task, playing a crucial role in enabling intelligent systems to perceive and respond to human activities. While fully-supervised methods achieve satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hongsong Wang , Yiqin Shen , Pengbo Yan , Jie Gui

Early detection of atypical cognitive-motor development is critical for timely intervention, yet traditional assessments rely heavily on subjective, static evaluations. The integration of digital devices offers an opportunity for…

Human activity discovery aims to cluster the activities performed by humans without any prior information on what defines each activity. Most methods presented in human activity recognition are supervised, where there are labeled inputs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Parham Hadikhani , Daphne Teck Ching Lai , Wee-Hong Ong

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental condition associated with difficulties with social interactions, communication, and restricted or repetitive behaviors. To characterize ASD, investigators often use functional…

Methodology · Statistics 2026-05-12 Jialu Ran , Sarah Shultz , Benjamin B. Risk , David Benkeser