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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) from wearable sensor data identifies movements or activities in unconstrained environments. HAR is a challenging problem as it presents great variability across subjects. Obtaining large amounts of labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Arttu Lämsä , Jaakko Tervonen , Jussi Liikka , Constantino Álvarez Casado , Miguel Bordallo López

A smart ring is a wearable electronic device in the form of a ring that incorporates diverse sensors and computing technologies to perform a variety of functions. Designed for use with fingers, smart rings are capable of sensing more subtle…

The new generation of wireless technologies, fitness trackers, and devices with embedded sensors can have a big impact on healthcare systems and quality of life. Among the most crucial aspects to consider in these devices are the accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Matteo Antonio Scrugli , Bojan Blažica , Paolo Meloni

In this paper, we present electromyography analysis of human activity - database 1 (EMAHA-DB1), a novel dataset of multi-channel surface electromyography (sEMG) signals to evaluate the activities of daily living (ADL). The dataset is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Naveen Kumar Karnam , Anish Chand Turlapaty , Shiv Ram Dubey , Balakrishna Gokaraju

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems aim to understand human behaviour and assign a label to each action, attracting significant attention in computer vision due to their wide range of applications. HAR can leverage various data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jungpil Shin , Najmul Hassan , Abu Saleh Musa Miah1 , Satoshi Nishimura

Smartphones have ubiquitously integrated into our home and work environments, however, users normally rely on explicit but inefficient identification processes in a controlled environment. Therefore, when a device is stolen, a thief can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-25 Muhammad Ahmad , Ali Kashif Bashir , Adil Mehmood Khan , Manuel Mazzara , Salvatore Distefano , Shahzad Sarfraz

Recent human activity recognition (HAR) methods, based on on-body inertial sensors, have achieved increasing performance; however, this is at the expense of longer CPU calculations and greater energy consumption. Therefore, these complex…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Roman Chereshnev , Attila Kertesz-Farkas

Physical activity recognition (PAR) using wearable devices can provide valued information regarding an individual's degree of functional ability and lifestyle. In this regards, smartphone-based physical activity recognition is a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-04-23 Muhammad Ahmad , Adil Mehmood Khan , Manuel Mazzara , Salvatore Distefano

Human activity recognition (HAR) has become a key component of intelligent systems for healthcare monitoring, assistive living, smart environments, and human-computer interaction. Although deep learning has substantially improved HAR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Mainak Kundu , Catherine Chen , Rifatul Islam , Ismail Uysal , Ria Kanjilal

Manual (hand-related) activity is a significant source of crash risk while driving. Accordingly, analysis of hand position and hand activity occupation is a useful component to understanding a driver's readiness to take control of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Ross Greer , Lulua Rakla , Anish Gopalan , Mohan Trivedi

We present the design, implementation, and evaluation of a multi-sensor low-power necklace 'NeckSense' for automatically and unobtrusively capturing fine-grained information about an individual's eating activity and eating episodes, across…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Shibo Zhang , Yuqi Zhao , Dzung Tri Nguyen , Runsheng Xu , Sougata Sen , Josiah Hester , Nabil Alshurafa

Unsupervised user adaptation aligns the feature distributions of the data from training users and the new user, so a well-trained wearable human activity recognition (WHAR) model can be well adapted to the new user. With the development of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Ling Chen , Yi Zhang , Shenghuan Miao , Sirou Zhu , Rong Hu , Liangying Peng , Mingqi Lv

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) simply refers to the capacity of a machine to perceive human actions. HAR is a prominent application of advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques that utilize computer vision to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Niloy Sikder , Md. Sanaullah Chowdhury , Abu Shamim Mohammad Arif , Abdullah-Al Nahid

Despite advances in practical and multimodal fine-grained Human Activity Recognition (HAR), a system that runs entirely on smartwatches in unconstrained environments remains elusive. We present WatchHAR, an audio and inertial-based HAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Taeyoung Yeon , Vasco Xu , Henry Hoffmann , Karan Ahuja

Human activity and environment produces sounds such as, at home, the noise produced by water, cough, or television. These sounds can be used to determine the activity in the environment. The objective is to monitor a person's activity or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-11-11 Serge Smidtas , Magalie Peyrot

We propose a novel use of the conventional energy storage component, i.e., capacitor, in kinetic-powered wearable IoTs as a sensor to detect human activities. Since different activities accumulate energies in the capacitor at different…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Guohao Lan , Dong Ma , Weitao Xu , Mahbub Hassan , Wen Hu

Action recognition is a key technology for many industrial applications. Methods using visual information such as images are very popular. However, privacy issues prevent widespread usage due to the inclusion of private information, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Risako Tanigawa , Yasunori Ishii

Endowing the robotic systems with cognitive capabilities for recognizing daily activities of humans is an important challenge, which requires sophisticated and novel approaches. Most of the proposed approaches explore pattern recognition…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Hazem Abdelkawy , Naouel Ayari , Abdelghani Chibani , Yacine Amirat , Ferhat Attal

This paper presents the designing of a neural network for the classification of Human activity. A Triaxial accelerometer sensor, housed in a chest worn sensor unit, has been used for capturing the acceleration of the movements associated.…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2011-07-25 Annapurna Sharma , Young-Dong Lee , Wan-Young Chung

We introduce a new dynamic model with the capability of recognizing both activities that an individual is performing as well as where that ndividual is located. Our model is novel in that it utilizes a dynamic graphical model to jointly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-07-02 Amarnag Subramanya , Alvin Raj , Jeff A. Bilmes , Dieter Fox