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Human activity recognition (HAR) has become a popular topic in research because of its wide application. With the development of deep learning, new ideas have appeared to address HAR problems. Here, a deep network architecture using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-08 Yu Zhao , Rennong Yang , Guillaume Chevalier , Maoguo Gong

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors is critical for applications in healthcare, safety, and industrial production. However, variations in activity patterns, device types, and sensor placements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hua Yan , Heng Tan , Yi Ding , Pengfei Zhou , Vinod Namboodiri , Yu Yang

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…

Due to its widespread applications, human action recognition is one of the most widely studied research problems in Computer Vision. Recent studies have shown that addressing it using multimodal data leads to superior performance as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Muhammad Bilal Shaikh , Syed Mohammed Shamsul Islam , Douglas Chai , Naveed Akhtar

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) primarily relied on traditional RGB cameras to achieve high-performance activity recognition. However, the challenging factors in real-world scenarios, such as insufficient lighting and rapid movements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Shiao Wang , Xiao Wang , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Jin Tang

While deep learning has contributed to the advancement of sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR), it is usually a costly and challenging supervised task with the needs of a large amount of labeled data. To alleviate this issue,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Jinqiang Wang , Tao Zhu , Jingyuan Gan , Liming Chen , Huansheng Ning , Yaping Wan

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) aims to recognize activities by training models on massive sensor data. In real-world deployment, a crucial aspect of HAR that has been largely overlooked is that the test sets may have different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Di Xiong , Shuoyuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Wenbo Huang , Chaolei Han

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

While traditional feature engineering for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) involves a trial-anderror process, deep learning has emerged as a preferred method for high-level representations of sensor-based human activities. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Haoran Duan , Shidong Wang , Varun Ojha , Shizheng Wang , Yawen Huang , Yang Long , Rajiv Ranjan , Yefeng Zheng

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) from wearable sensors supports broad healthcare and behavior science applications. However, data heterogeneity and the scarcity of labeled data limit its real-world generalization. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yize Cai , Rui Feng , Anlan Yu , Baoshen Guo , Zhiqing Hong

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on the sensors of mobile/wearable devices aims to detect the physical activities performed by humans in their daily lives. Although supervised learning methods are the most effective in this task,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Sannara Ek , Riccardo Presotto , Gabriele Civitarese , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , Claudio Bettini

The vast proliferation of sensor devices and Internet of Things enables the applications of sensor-based activity recognition. However, there exist substantial challenges that could influence the performance of the recognition system in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Kaixuan Chen , Dalin Zhang , Lina Yao , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Yunhao Liu

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a crucial role in various applications such as human-computer interaction and healthcare monitoring. However, challenges persist in HAR models due to the data distribution differences between training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiaozhou Ye , Kevin I-Kai Wang

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a powerful tool for understanding human behaviour. Applying HAR to wearable sensors can provide new insights by enriching the feature set in health studies, and enhance the personalisation and…

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

Wearable sensor devices, which offer the advantage of recording daily objects used by a person while performing an activity, enable the feasibility of unsupervised Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Unfortunately, previous unsupervised…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Qingxin Xia , Takuya Maekawa , Takahiro Hara

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

Wrist-worn smart devices are providing increased insights into human health, behaviour and performance through sophisticated analytics. However, battery life, device cost and sensor performance in the face of movement-related artefact…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Eoin Brophy , Willie Muehlhausen , Alan F. Smeaton , Tomas E. Ward

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a vital role in healthcare, surveillance, and innovative environments, where reliable action recognition supports timely decision-making and automation. Although deep learning-based HAR systems are…