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This paper addresses the problem of Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using data from wearable inertial sensors. An important challenge in HAR is the model's generalization capabilities to new unseen individuals due to inter-subject…

Vision-based human activity recognition (HAR) has made substantial progress in recognizing predefined gestures but lacks adaptability for emerging activities. This paper introduces a paradigm shift by harnessing generative modeling and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Nikhil Kashyap , Manas Satish Bedmutha , Prerit Chaudhary , Brian Wood , Wanda Pratt , Janice Sabin , Andrea Hartzler , Nadir Weibel

Deploying human activity recognition (HAR) at home is still rare because sensor signals vary wildly across houses, people, and time, essentially requiring in-situ data collection and training. Prior approaches use cameras to generate…

This paper proposes a new 3D Human Action Recognition system as a two-phase system: (1) Deep Metric Learning Module which learns a similarity metric between two 3D joint sequences using Siamese-LSTM networks; (2) A Multiclass Classification…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Seyma Yucer , Yusuf Sinan Akgul

Activity recognition using built-in sensors in smart and wearable devices provides great opportunities to understand and detect human behavior in the wild and gives a more holistic view of individuals' health and well being. Numerous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Mehrdad Fazli , Kamran Kowsari , Erfaneh Gharavi , Laura Barnes , Afsaneh Doryab

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has been a popular research field due to the widespread of devices with sensors and computational power (e.g., smartphones and smartwatches). Applications for HAR systems have been extensively researched in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Paulo J. S. Ferreira , João Mendes Moreira , João M. P. Cardoso

There has been much recent research on human activity re\-cog\-ni\-tion (HAR), due to the proliferation of wearable sensors in watches and phones, and the advances of deep learning methods, which avoid the need to manually extract features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Louis Mahon , Thomas Lukasiewicz

How to accurately learn task-relevant state representations from high-dimensional observations with visual distractions is a realistic and challenging problem in visual reinforcement learning. Recently, unsupervised representation learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Dayang Liang , Qihang Chen , Yunlong Liu

The combination of increased life expectancy and falling birth rates is resulting in an aging population. Wearable Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (WSHAR) emerges as a promising assistive technology to support the daily lives of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Jianyuan Ni , Hao Tang , Syed Tousiful Haque , Yan Yan , Anne H. H. Ngu

Human activity recognition~(HAR) has attracted significant research interest due to its applications in health monitoring and patient rehabilitation. Recent research on HAR focuses on using smartphones due to their widespread use. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Ganapati Bhat , Ranadeep Deb , Vatika Vardhan Chaurasia , Holly Shill , Umit Y. Ogras

We present a novel hierarchical model for human activity recognition. In contrast to approaches that successively recognize actions and activities, our approach jointly models actions and activities in a unified framework, and their labels…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-03-09 Ninghang Hu , Gwenn Englebienne , Zhongyu Lou , Ben Kröse

Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition (HAR) has emerged as a promising approach for contactless sensing, leveraging channel state information (CSI) collected from wireless transceivers. While existing studies have primarily concentrated on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Amirhossein Mohammadi , Hina Tabassum

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) enables context-aware user experiences where mobile apps can alter content and interactions depending on user activities. Hence, smartphones have become valuable for HAR as they allow large, and diversified…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Emma Bouton--Bessac , Lakmal Meegahapola , Daniel Gatica-Perez

Human Action Recognition (HAR) is a challenging domain in computer vision, involving recognizing complex patterns by analyzing the spatiotemporal dynamics of individuals' movements in videos. These patterns arise in sequential data, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Ali K. AlShami , Ryan Rabinowitz , Khang Lam , Yousra Shleibik , Melkamu Mersha , Terrance Boult , Jugal Kalita

The problem of human activity recognition from mobile sensor data applies to multiple domains, such as health monitoring, personal fitness, daily life logging, and senior care. A critical challenge for training human activity recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Abduallah Mohamed , Fernando Lejarza , Stephanie Cahail , Christian Claudel , Edison Thomaz

As a critical component of Wearable AI, IMU-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry in recent years. Although HAR performance has improved considerably in specific scenarios,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Yize Cai , Baoshen Guo , Flora Salim , Zhiqing Hong

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) underpins many ubiquitous and wearable computing applications, yet current models remain limited by scarce labels, sensor heterogeneity, and weak generalization across users, devices, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Sizhen Bian , Mengxi Liu , Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Thomas Ploetz , Paul Lukowicz , Siyu Yuan , Vitor Fortes Rey

Cross-modal contrastive pre-training between natural language and other modalities, e.g., vision and audio, has demonstrated astonishing performance and effectiveness across a diverse variety of tasks and domains. In this paper, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Harish Haresamudram , Apoorva Beedu , Mashfiqui Rabbi , Sankalita Saha , Irfan Essa , Thomas Ploetz