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Detecting human actions is a crucial task for autonomous robots and vehicles, often requiring the integration of various data modalities for improved accuracy. In this study, we introduce a novel approach to Human Action Recognition (HAR)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Mohammad Mahdavian , Mohammad Loni , Ted Samuelsson , Mo Chen

The use of supervised learning for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on mobile devices leads to strong classification performances. Such an approach, however, requires large amounts of labeled data, both for the initial training of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Riccardo Presotto , Sannara Ek , Gabriele Civitarese , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , Claudio Bettini

After a few years of research in the field of through-the-wall radar (TWR) human activity recognition (HAR), I found that we seem to be stuck in the mindset of training on radar image data through neural network models. The earliest related…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Weicheng Gao

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) stands as a pivotal technique within pattern recognition, dedicated to deciphering human movements and actions utilizing one or multiple sensory inputs. Its significance extends across diverse applications,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Farhad Nazari , Arian Shajari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer

Research has shown the complementarity of camera- and inertial-based data for modeling human activities, yet datasets with both egocentric video and inertial-based sensor data remain scarce. In this paper, we introduce WEAR, an outdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Marius Bock , Hilde Kuehne , Kristof Van Laerhoven , Michael Moeller

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is crucial in ubiquitous computing, analysing behaviours through multi-dimensional observations. Despite research progress, HAR confronts challenges, particularly in data distribution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Xiaozhou Ye , Kouichi Sakurai , Nirmal Nair , Kevin I-Kai Wang

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is critical for applications in healthcare, fitness, and IoT, but deploying accurate models on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to high energy and memory demands. This paper demonstrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Alan T. L. Bacellar , Mugdha P. Jadhao , Shashank Nag , Priscila M. V. Lima , Felipe M. G. Franca , Lizy K. John

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using on-body devices identifies specific human actions in unconstrained environments. HAR is challenging due to the inter and intra-variance of human movements; moreover, annotated datasets from on-body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Shrutarv Awasthi , Fernando Moya Rueda , Gernot A. Fink

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a pivotal component of robot perception for physical Human Robot Interaction (pHRI) tasks. In construction robotics, it is vital that robots have an accurate and robust perception of worker activities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Mani Amani , Reza Akhavian

Processing sequential multi-sensor data becomes important in many tasks due to the dramatic increase in the availability of sensors that can acquire sequential data over time. Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the fields which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zeyd Boukhers , Danniene Wete , Steffen Staab

Open-world novelty--a sudden change in the mechanics or properties of an environment--is a common occurrence in the real world. Novelty adaptation is an agent's ability to improve its policy performance post-novelty. Most reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Jonathan Balloch , Zhiyu Lin , Robert Wright , Xiangyu Peng , Mustafa Hussain , Aarun Srinivas , Julia Kim , Mark O. Riedl

Complex human activity recognition (CHAR) remains a pivotal challenge within ubiquitous computing, especially in the context of smart environments. Existing studies typically require meticulous labeling of both atomic and complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Yuan Sun , Navid Salami Pargoo , Taqiya Ehsan , Zhao Zhang , Jorge Ortiz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the essential building blocks of so many applications like security, monitoring, the internet of things and human-robot interaction. The research community has developed various methodologies to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Farhad Nazari , Navid Mohajer , Darius Nahavandi , Abbas Khosravi , Saeid Nahavandi

As a fundamental problem in ubiquitous computing and machine learning, sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has drawn extensive attention and made great progress in recent years. HAR aims to recognize human activities based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Yimu Wang , Kun Yu , Yan Wang , Hui Xue

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on mobile devices has been demonstrated to be possible using neural models trained on data collected from the device's inertial measurement units. These models have used Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sannara EK , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda

There has been a resurgence of applications focused on Human Activity Recognition (HAR) in smart homes, especially in the field of ambient intelligence and assisted living technologies. However, such applications present numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-17 Srivatsa P , Thomas Plötz

Human activity recognition based on wearable sensor data has been an attractive research topic due to its application in areas such as healthcare and smart environments. In this context, many works have presented remarkable results using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Artur Jordao , Antonio C. Nazare , Jessica Sena , William Robson Schwartz

We propose two well-motivated ranking-based methods to enhance the performance of current state-of-the-art human activity recognition systems. First, as an improvement over the classic power normalization method, we propose a parameter-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-14 Zhenzhong Lan , Shoou-I Yu , Alexander G. Hauptmann

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) aims to interpret and classify user behaviors from temporal motion signals. Recently, deep learning frameworks have advanced this task by learning and extracting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-12 Peng Liao , Shangsong Liang , Lin Chen , Peijia Zheng

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