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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

Human Action Recognition (HAR) aims to understand human behavior and assign a label to each action. It has a wide range of applications, and therefore has been attracting increasing attention in the field of computer vision. Human actions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zehua Sun , Qiuhong Ke , Hossein Rahmani , Mohammed Bennamoun , Gang Wang , Jun Liu

Ambient sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) in smart homes remains challenging due to the need for real-time inference, spatially grounded reasoning, and context-aware temporal modeling. Existing approaches often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zishuai Liu , Weihang You , Jin Lu , Fei Dou

Machine learning-based wearable human activity recognition (WHAR) models enable the development of various smart and connected community applications such as sleep pattern monitoring, medication reminders, cognitive health assessment,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Avijoy Chakma , Abu Zaher Md Faridee , Indrajeet Ghosh , Nirmalya Roy

Radar-based human activity recognition (HAR) still lacks a comprehensive simulation method. Existing software is developed based on models or motion-captured data, resulting in limited flexibility. To address this issue, a simulator that…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 Weicheng Gao

With advancements in computer vision and deep learning, video-based human action recognition (HAR) has become practical. However, due to the complexity of the computation pipeline, running HAR on live video streams incurs excessive delays…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Ruiqi Wang , Zichen Wang , Peiqi Gao , Mingzhen Li , Jaehwan Jeong , Yihang Xu , Yejin Lee , Carolyn M. Baum , Lisa Tabor Connor , Chenyang Lu

The main streams of human activity recognition (HAR) algorithms are developed based on RGB cameras which are suffered from illumination, fast motion, privacy-preserving, and large energy consumption. Meanwhile, the biologically inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Xiao Wang , Zongzhen Wu , Bo Jiang , Zhimin Bao , Lin Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian

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

Large vision-language models have achieved remarkable capabilities by training on massive internet-scale data, yet a fundamental asymmetry persists: while LLMs can leverage self-supervised pretraining on abundant text and image data, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Kidus Zewde , Yuchen Zhou , Dennis Ng , Neo Tiangratanakul , Tommy Duong , Ankit Raj , Yuxin Zhang , Xingyu Shen , Simiao Ren

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

Conventional human activity recognition (HAR) relies on classifiers trained to predict discrete activity classes, inherently limiting recognition to activities explicitly present in the training set. Such classifiers would invariably fail,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Human activity recognition (HAR) using machine learning has shown tremendous promise in detecting construction workers' activities. HAR has many applications in human-robot interaction research to enable robots' understanding of human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Farid Shahnavaz , Riley Tavassoli , Reza Akhavian

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable devices such as smart watches embedded with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors has various applications relevant to our daily life, such as workout tracking and health monitoring. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Wenjin Tao , Haodong Chen , Md Moniruzzaman , Ming C. Leu , Zhaozheng Yi , Ruwen Qin

We propose a text-to-IMU (inertial measurement unit) motion-synthesis framework to obtain realistic IMU data by fine-tuning a pretrained diffusion model with an acceleration-based second-order loss (L_acc). L_acc enforces consistency in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Lars Ole Häusler , Lena Uhlenberg , Göran Köber , Diyora Salimova , Oliver Amft

Measures of Activity of Daily Living (ADL) are an important indicator of overall health but difficult to measure in-clinic. Automated and accurate human activity recognition (HAR) using wrist-worn accelerometers enables practical and cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Niranjan Sridhar , Lance Myers

Leveraging wearable devices for motion reconstruction has emerged as an economical and viable technique. Certain methodologies employ sparse Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) on the human body and harness data-driven strategies to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xueyuan Yang , Chao Yao , Xiaojuan Ban

To fluently collaborate with people, robots need the ability to recognize human activities accurately. Although modern robots are equipped with various sensors, robust human activity recognition (HAR) still remains a challenging task for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Md Mofijul Islam , Tariq Iqbal

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…

Synthetic data offers a compelling path to scalable pretraining when real-world data is scarce, but models pretrained on synthetic data often fail to transfer reliably to deployment settings. We study this problem in full-body human motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Firas Darwish , George Nicholson , Aiden Doherty , Hang Yuan

Automated evaluation of movement quality holds significant potential for enhancing physiotherapeutic treatments and sports training by providing objective, real-time feedback. However, the effectiveness of deep learning models in assessing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Andreas Spilz , Heiko Oppel , Michael Munz