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A major bottleneck in training robust Human-Activity Recognition models (HAR) is the need for large-scale labeled sensor datasets. Because labeling large amounts of sensor data is an expensive task, unsupervised and semi-supervised learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Yash Jain , Chi Ian Tang , Chulhong Min , Fahim Kawsar , Akhil Mathur

With the rapid development of the internet of things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, human activity recognition (HAR) has been applied in a variety of domains such as security and surveillance, human-robot interaction,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Rex Liu , Albara Ah Ramli , Huanle Zhang , Erik Henricson , Xin Liu

The goal of creating intelligent, human-centered wearable systems for continuous activity understanding faces a fundamental trade-off: Egocentric video-based models capture rich semantic information and have demonstrated strong performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Baiyu Chen , Wilson Wongso , Zechen Li , Yonchanok Khaokaew , Hao Xue , Flora Salim

In wearable-based human activity recognition (HAR) research, one of the major challenges is the large intra-class variability problem. The collected activity signal is often, if not always, coupled with noises or bias caused by personal,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jie Su , Zhenyu Wen , Tao Lin , Yu Guan

We address the well-known wearable activity recognition problem of having to work with sensors that are non-optimal in terms of information they provide but have to be used due to wearability/usability concerns (e.g. the need to work with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Feature extraction is crucial for human activity recognition (HAR) using body-worn movement sensors. Recently, learned representations have been used successfully, offering promising alternatives to manually engineered features. Our work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Harish Haresamudram , Irfan Essa , Thomas Ploetz

Improving the performance of semantic segmentation models using multispectral information is crucial, especially for environments with low-light and adverse conditions. Multi-modal fusion techniques pursue either the learning of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Aniruddh Sikdar , Jayant Teotia , Suresh Sundaram

Wearable HAR has improved steadily, but most progress still relies on closed-set classification, which limits real-world use. In practice, human activity is open-ended, unscripted, personalized, and often compositional, unfolding as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Mengxi Liu , Alcina Pinto , Deepika Gurung , Daniel Geissler , Paul Lukowoicz , Bo Zhou

Current Pedestrian Attribute Recognition (PAR) algorithms typically focus on mapping visual features to semantic labels or attempt to enhance learning by fusing visual and attribute information. However, these methods fail to fully exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Xiao Wang , Shujuan Wu , Xiaoxia Cheng , Changwei Bi , Jin Tang , Bin Luo

Deep learning achieved great progress recently, however, it is not easy or efficient to further improve its performance by increasing the size of the model. Multi-modal learning can mitigate this challenge by introducing richer and more…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Cairong Zhao , Yufeng Jin , Zifan Song , Haonan Chen , Duoqian Miao , Guosheng Hu

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

User dependence remains one of the most difficult general problems in Human Activity Recognition (HAR), in particular when using wearable sensors. This is due to the huge variability of the way different people execute even the simplest…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Sungho Suh , Vitor Fortes Rey , Paul Lukowicz

Current gait recognition research mainly focuses on identifying pedestrians captured by the same type of sensor, neglecting the fact that individuals may be captured by different sensors in order to adapt to various environments. A more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Rui Wang , Chuanfu Shen , Manuel J. Marin-Jimenez , George Q. Huang , Shiqi Yu

Due to its widespread applications, human action recognition is one of the most widely studied research problems in Computer Vision. Recent studies have shown that addressing it using multimodal data leads to superior performance as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Muhammad Bilal Shaikh , Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam , Douglas Chai , Naveed Akhtar

Human Activity Recognition (HAR), based on machine and deep learning algorithms is considered one of the most promising technologies to monitor professional and daily life activities for different categories of people (e.g., athletes,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Graziano Pravadelli

Machine learning and deep learning have shown great promise in mobile sensing applications, including Human Activity Recognition. However, the performance of such models in real-world settings largely depends on the availability of large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-12 Chi Ian Tang , Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo , Dimitris Spathis , Soren Brage , Nick Wareham , Cecilia Mascolo

To fluently collaborate with people, robots need the ability to recognize human activities accurately. Although modern robots are equipped with various sensors, robust human activity recognition (HAR) still remains a challenging task for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Md Mofijul Islam , Tariq Iqbal

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with wearable sensors is essential for applications in healthcare, fitness, and human-computer interaction. Bio-impedance sensing offers unique advantages for fine-grained motion capture but remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Mengxi Liu , Deepika Gurung , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

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

In real-world scenarios, human actions often fall outside the distribution of training data, making it crucial for models to recognize known actions and reject unknown ones. However, using pure skeleton data in such open-set conditions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Kunyu Peng , Cheng Yin , Junwei Zheng , Ruiping Liu , David Schneider , Jiaming Zhang , Kailun Yang , M. Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Alina Roitberg