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Context-aware Human Activity Recognition (CHAR) is challenging due to the need to recognize the user's current activity from signals that vary significantly with contextual factors such as phone placements and the varied styles with which…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Wen Ge , Guanyi Mou , Emmanuel O. Agu , Kyumin Lee

Human activity recognition (HAR) is an important research field in ubiquitous computing where the acquisition of large-scale labeled sensor data is tedious, labor-intensive and time consuming. State-of-the-art unsupervised remedies…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-13 Alireza Abedin , Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

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

This paper introduces AutoGCN, a generic Neural Architecture Search (NAS) algorithm for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using Graph Convolution Networks (GCNs). HAR has gained attention due to advances in deep learning, increased data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Felix Tempel , Inga Strümke , Espen Alexander F. Ihlen

Human activity recognition (HAR) research often lacks accessible, comprehensive field data. Commercial systems are rarely open source, hard to expand, and limited by issues like node synchronisation, data throughput, unclear sensor…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Philipp Lepold , Tobias Röddiger , Michael Beigl

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a machine learning task with important applications in healthcare especially in the context of home care of patients and older adults. HAR is often based on data collected from smart sensors, particularly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Ali Raza , Kim Phuc Tran , Ludovic Koehl , Shujun Li , Xianyi Zeng , Khaled Benzaidi

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

In this paper, we report a hierarchical deep learning model for classification of complex human activities using motion sensors. In contrast to traditional Human Activity Recognition (HAR) models used for event-based activity recognition,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Eric Rosen , Doruk Senkal

In this paper, we introduce a deep learning solution for video activity recognition that leverages an innovative combination of convolutional layers with a linear-complexity attention mechanism. Moreover, we introduce a novel quantization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Gabriele Lagani , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Giuseppe Amato

In the last decade, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become a vibrant research area, especially due to the spread of electronic devices such as smartphones, smartwatches and video cameras present in our daily lives. In addition, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Florenc Demrozi , Graziano Pravadelli , Azra Bihorac , Parisa Rashidi

Deep 3-dimensional (3D) Convolutional Network (ConvNet) has shown promising performance on video recognition tasks because of its powerful spatio-temporal information fusion ability. However, the extremely intensive requirements on memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Haonan Wang , Jun Lin , Zhongfeng Wang

Decoding human activity accurately from wearable sensors can aid in applications related to healthcare and context awareness. The present approaches in this domain use recurrent and/or convolutional models to capture the spatio-temporal…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Satya P. Singh , Aimé Lay-Ekuakille , Deepak Gangwar , Madan Kumar Sharma , Sukrit Gupta

We introduce SensorLLM, a two-stage framework that enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform human activity recognition (HAR) from sensor time-series data. Despite their strong reasoning and generalization capabilities, LLMs remain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zechen Li , Shohreh Deldari , Linyao Chen , Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

When creating multi-channel time-series datasets for Human Activity Recognition (HAR), researchers are faced with the issue of subject selection criteria. It is unknown what physical characteristics and/or soft-biometrics, such as age,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Nilah Ravi Nair , Lena Schmid , Fernando Moya Rueda , Markus Pauly , Gernot A. Fink , Christopher Reining

Pervasive computing allows the provision of services in many important areas, including the relevant and dynamic field of health and well-being. In this domain, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has gained a lot of attention in recent years.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-27 Bonpagna Kann , Sandra Castellanos-Paez , Philippe Lalanda

Unlike images or videos data which can be easily labeled by human being, sensor data annotation is a time-consuming process. However, traditional methods of human activity recognition require a large amount of such strictly labeled data for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Kun Wang , Jun He , Lei Zhang

Deep learning models have achieved state-of-the- art performance in recognizing human activities, but often rely on utilizing background cues present in typical computer vision datasets that predominantly have a stationary camera. If these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-09-20 Fahimeh Rezazadegan , Sareh Shirazi , Ben Upcroft , Michael Milford

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has emerged as a principal research area and is utilized in a variety of applications. Recently, deep learning-based methods have achieved significant improvement in the HAR field with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Sungho Suh , Vitor Fortes Rey , Paul Lukowicz

Dense prediction models are widely used for image segmentation. One important challenge is to sufficiently train these models to yield good generalizations for hard-to-learn pixels. A typical group of such hard-to-learn pixels are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-07 Gozde Nur Gunesli , Cenk Sokmensuer , Cigdem Gunduz-Demir

Wearable Human Activity Recognition (WHAR) is a prominent research area within ubiquitous computing, whose core lies in effectively modeling intra- and inter-sensor spatio-temporal relationships from multi-modal time series data. Existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wang Chenglong , Zhuo Yan , Ding Wenbo , Chen Xinlei