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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a critical role in numerous applications, including healthcare monitoring, fitness tracking, and smart environments. Traditional deep learning (DL) approaches, while effective, often require extensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Mohammad Alikhani

Smartphones have become quite pervasive in various aspects of our daily lives. They have become important links to a host of important data and applications, which if compromised, can lead to disastrous results. Due to this, today's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-15 Thingom Bishal Singha , Rajsekhar Kumar Nath , A. V. Narsimhadhan

Human activity recognition (HAR) is fundamental in human-robot collaboration (HRC), enabling robots to respond to and dynamically adapt to human intentions. This paper introduces a HAR system combining a modular data glove equipped with…

With each sensing modality exhibiting inherent strengths and limitations, multi-modal approaches for wearable Human Activity Recognition (HAR) are becoming increasingly relevant -- particularly for recognizing Activities of Daily Living…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Robin Burchard , Pascal-André Brückner , Marius Bock , Juergen Gall , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the fundamental building blocks of human assistive devices like orthoses and exoskeletons. There are different approaches to HAR depending on the application. Numerous studies have been focused on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Farhad Nazari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer , Abbas Khosravi

Human activity recognition, facilitated by smart devices, has recently garnered significant attention. Deep learning algorithms have become pivotal in daily activities, sports, and healthcare. Nevertheless, addressing the challenge of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Nazanin Sedaghati , Masoud Kargar , Sina Abbaskhani

The current gold standard for human activity recognition (HAR) is based on the use of cameras. However, the poor scalability of camera systems renders them impractical in pursuit of the goal of wider adoption of HAR in mobile computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Eoin Brophy , José Juan Dominguez Veiga , Zhengwei Wang , Alan F. Smeaton , Tomas E. Ward

Quite a few people in the world have to stay under permanent surveillance for health reasons; they include diabetic people or people with some other chronic conditions, the elderly and the disabled.These groups may face heightened risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Anna Nedorubova , Alena Kadyrova , Aleksey Khlyupin

The problem of automatic identification of physical activities performed by human subjects is referred to as Human Activity Recognition (HAR). There exist several techniques to measure motion characteristics during these physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Antonio Bevilacqua , Kyle MacDonald , Aamina Rangarej , Venessa Widjaya , Brian Caulfield , Tahar Kechadi

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 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

Physical activity patterns can be informative about a patient's health status. Traditionally, activity data have been gathered using patient self-report. However, these subjective data can suffer from bias and are difficult to collect over…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-08 Emily Huang , Kebin Yan , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

We consider human activity recognition (HAR) from wearable sensor data in manual-work processes, like warehouse order-picking. Such structured domains can often be partitioned into distinct process steps, e.g., packaging or transporting.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Stefan Lüdtke , Fernando Moya Rueda , Waqas Ahmed , Gernot A. Fink , Thomas Kirste

Traditional human activity recognition (HAR) based on time series adopts sliding window analysis method. This method faces the multi-class window problem which mistakenly labels different classes of sampling points within a window as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Yong Zhang , Yu Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Jie Bao , Yunpeng Song

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable and mobile sensors has gained momentum in last few years, in various fields, such as, healthcare, surveillance, education, entertainment. Nowadays, Edge Computing has emerged to reduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Preeti Agarwal , Mansaf Alam

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

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) is now a research hotspot in multiple application areas. With the rise of smart wearable devices equipped with inertial measurement units (IMUs), researchers begin to utilize IMU data for HAR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Fanyi Xiao , Ling Pei , Lei Chu , Danping Zou , Wenxian Yu , Yifan Zhu , Tao Li

The ubiquity of personal digital devices offers unprecedented opportunities to study human behavior. Current state-of-the-art methods quantify physical activity using 'activity counts,' a measure which overlooks specific types of physical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Marcin Straczkiewicz , Emily J. Huang , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the central problems in fields such as healthcare, elderly care, and security at home. However, traditional HAR approaches face challenges including data scarcity, difficulties in model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xi Chen , Julien Cumin , Fano Ramparany , Dominique Vaufreydaz

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been an active research area, owing to its applications in smart environments, assisted living, fitness, healthcare, etc. Recently, deep learning based end-to-end training has resulted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Sourish Gunesh Dhekane , Thomas Ploetz