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Various types of sensors can be used for Human Activity Recognition (HAR), and each of them has different strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes a single sensor cannot fully observe the user's motions from its perspective, which causes wrong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Duc-Anh Nguyen , Cuong Pham , Nhien-An Le-Khac

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

Despite the widespread integration of ambient light sensors (ALS) in smart devices commonly used for screen brightness adaptation, their application in human activity recognition (HAR), primarily through body-worn ALS, is largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Daniel Geißler , Mengxi Liu , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Machine learning algorithms are improving rapidly, but annotating training data remains a bottleneck for many applications. In this paper, we show how real data can be used for self-supervised learning without any transformations by taking…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Dominique Nshimyimana , Vitor Fortes Rey , Paul Lukowic

Sensor data streams from wearable devices and smart environments are widely studied in areas like human activity recognition (HAR), person identification, or health monitoring. However, most of the previous works in activity and sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-09 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber

Human activity recognition (HAR) from on-body sensors is a core functionality in many AI applications: from personal health, through sports and wellness to Industry 4.0. A key problem holding up progress in wearable sensor-based HAR,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Si Zuo , Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Stephan Sigg , Paul Lukowicz

In this study, we propose a method for single sensor-based activity recognition, trained with data from multiple sensors. There is no doubt that the performance of complex activity recognition systems increases when we use enough sensors…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Paula Lago , Moe Matsuki , Sozo Inoue

Recent advances in both machine learning and Internet-of-Things have attracted attention to automatic Activity Recognition, where users wear a device with sensors and their outputs are mapped to a predefined set of activities. However, few…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Taku Yamagata , Raúl Santos-Rodríguez , Ryan McConville , Atis Elsts

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

Inertial measurement units (IMUs) are central to wearable systems for activity recognition and pose estimation, but sensor placement remains largely guided by heuristics and convention. In this work, we introduce Where to Wear (W2W), a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Automatic and precise fitness activity recognition can be beneficial in aspects from promoting a healthy lifestyle to personalized preventative healthcare. While IMUs are currently the prominent fitness tracking modality, through iMove, we…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Mengxi Liu , Vitor Fortes Rey , Yu Zhang , Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Wearable-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a key task in human-centric machine learning due to its fundamental understanding of human behaviours. Due to the dynamic nature of human behaviours, continual learning promises HAR systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Chi Ian Tang , Lorena Qendro , Dimitris Spathis , Fahim Kawsar , Akhil Mathur , Cecilia Mascolo

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors are widely employed for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) due to their portability, energy efficiency, and growing research interest. However, a significant challenge for IMU-HAR models is achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qi Qiu , Tao Zhu , Furong Duan , Kevin I-Kai Wang , Liming Chen , Mingxing Nie , Mingxing Nie

Wearable devices have strict power and memory limitations. As a result, there is a need to optimize the power consumption on those devices without sacrificing the accuracy. This paper presents AdaSense: a sensing, feature extraction and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Marina Neseem , Jon Nelson , Sherief Reda

The ubiquitous availability of smartphones and smartwatches with integrated inertial measurement units (IMUs) enables straightforward capturing of human activities. For specific applications of sensor based human activity recognition (HAR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Megha Thukral , Harish Haresamudram , Thomas Ploetz

Human activity recognition has become an attractive research area with the development of on-body wearable sensing technology. With comfortable electronic-textiles, sensors can be embedded into clothing so that it is possible to record…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-09-26 Tianchen Shen , Irene Di Giulio , Matthew Howard

Human activity recognition (HAR) is an important research field in ubiquitous computing where the acquisition of large-scale labeled sensor data is tedious, labor-intensive and time consuming. State-of-the-art unsupervised remedies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Alireza Abedin , Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

We propose an attention-based networks for transferring motions between arbitrary objects. Given a source image(s) and a driving video, our networks animate the subject in the source images according to the motion in the driving video. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Subin Jeon , Seonghyeon Nam , Seoung Wug Oh , Seon Joo Kim

Activity recognition, as an important component of behavioral monitoring and intervention, has attracted enormous attention, especially in Mobile Cloud Computing (MCC) and Remote Health Monitoring (RHM) paradigms. While recently resource…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-11-17 J. Pagan , R. Fallahzadeh , M. Pedram , José L. Risco-Martín , J. M. Moya , J. L. Ayala , H. Ghasemzadeh

Human activity recognition (HAR) using wearable sensors has advanced through various machine learning paradigms, each with inherent trade-offs between performance and labeling requirements. While fully supervised techniques achieve high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber