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Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been a research focus in the field of ubiquitous and mobile computing for years. In recent years, many deep models have been applied to HAR problems. However, deep learning methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Yujiao Hao , Boyu Wang , Rong Zheng

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a significant role in the everyday life of people because of its ability to learn extensive high-level information about human activity from wearable or stationary devices. A substantial amount of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Md. Milon Islam , Sheikh Nooruddin , Fakhri Karray , Ghulam Muhammad

Attribute representations became relevant in image recognition and word spotting, providing support under the presence of unbalance and disjoint datasets. However, for human activity recognition using sequential data from on-body sensors,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-05 Fernando Moya Rueda , Gernot A. Fink

We propose the use of self-supervised learning for human activity recognition with smartphone accelerometer data. Our proposed solution consists of two steps. First, the representations of unlabeled input signals are learned by training a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-03 Setareh Rahimi Taghanaki , Michael Rainbow , Ali Etemad

Wearable accelerometers enable large-scale health monitoring, yet learning robust human-activity representations has been constrained by scarce labeled data. While self-supervised learning offers a remedy, existing methods treat sensor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Prithviraj Tarale , Kiet Chu , Abhishek Varghese , Kai-Chun Liu , Maxwell A. Xu , Mohit Iyyer , Sunghoon I. Lee

The use of supervised learning for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on mobile devices leads to strong classification performances. Such an approach, however, requires large amounts of labeled data, both for the initial training of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Riccardo Presotto , Sannara Ek , Gabriele Civitarese , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , Claudio Bettini

Unsupervised user adaptation aligns the feature distributions of the data from training users and the new user, so a well-trained wearable human activity recognition (WHAR) model can be well adapted to the new user. With the development of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Ling Chen , Yi Zhang , Shenghuan Miao , Sirou Zhu , Rong Hu , Liangying Peng , Mingqi Lv

The embedded sensors in widely used smartphones and other wearable devices make the data of human activities more accessible. However, recognizing different human activities from the wearable sensor data remains a challenging research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber

A major barrier to the personalized Human Activity Recognition using wearable sensors is that the performance of the recognition model drops significantly upon adoption of the system by new users or changes in physical/ behavioral status of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-26 Seyed Ali Rokni , Marjan Nourollahi , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

Recent advances in representation learning have demonstrated an ability to represent information from different modalities such as video, text, and audio in a single high-level embedding vector. In this work we present a self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Alexander H. Liu , SouYoung Jin , Cheng-I Jeff Lai , Andrew Rouditchenko , Aude Oliva , James Glass

Human activity recognition (HAR) has been playing an increasingly important role in various domains such as healthcare, security monitoring, and metaverse gaming. Though numerous HAR methods based on computer vision have been developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jianfei Yang , Shijie Tang , Yuecong Xu , Yunjiao Zhou , Lihua Xie

The primary objective of human activity recognition (HAR) is to infer ongoing human actions from sensor data, a task that finds broad applications in health monitoring, safety protection, and sports analysis. Despite proliferating research,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Hang Xiao , Ying Yu , Jiarui Li , Zhifan Yang , Haotian Tang , Hanyu Liu , Chao Li

Recent human activity recognition (HAR) methods, based on on-body inertial sensors, have achieved increasing performance; however, this is at the expense of longer CPU calculations and greater energy consumption. Therefore, these complex…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Roman Chereshnev , Attila Kertesz-Farkas

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using deep neural network has become a hot topic in human-computer interaction. Machine can effectively identify human naturalistic activities by learning from a large collection of sensor data. Activity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-12 Jun Long , WuQing Sun , Zhan Yang , Osolo Ian Raymond

Deep learning models for human activity recognition (HAR) based on sensor data have been heavily studied recently. However, the generalization ability of deep models on complex real-world HAR data is limited by the availability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Chenglin Li , Carrie Lu Tong , Di Niu , Bei Jiang , Xiao Zuo , Lei Cheng , Jian Xiong , Jianming Yang

Human activity recognition (HAR) based on multi-modal approach has been recently shown to improve the accuracy performance of HAR. However, restricted computational resources associated with wearable devices, i.e., smartwatch, failed to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-12-06 Jianyuan Ni , Raunak Sarbajna , Yang Liu , Anne H. H. Ngu , Yan Yan

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

The study explores a hybrid centralized-federated approach for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using a Transformer-based architecture. With the increasing ubiquity of edge devices, such as smartphones and wearables, a significant amount of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Wandemberg Gibaut , Alexandre Osorio , Amparo Munoz , Sildolfo F. G. Neto , Fabio Grassiotto

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

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