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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is an ongoing research topic. It has applications in medical support, sports, fitness, social networking, human-computer interfaces, senior care, entertainment, surveillance, and the list goes on.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Hamza Ali Imran , Saad Wazir , Usman Iftikhar , Usama Latif

This paper presents a comprehensive mathematical model to characterize the energy dynamics of batteryless IoT sensor nodes powered entirely by ambient energy harvesting. The model captures both the energy harvesting and consumption phases,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-29 Jimmy Fernandez Landivar , Andrea Zanella , Ihsane Gryech , Sofie Pollin , Hazem Sallouha

Mobile and wearable devices have enabled numerous applications, including activity tracking, wellness monitoring, and human--computer interaction, that measure and improve our daily lives. Many of these applications are made possible by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shibo Zhang , Yaxuan Li , Shen Zhang , Farzad Shahabi , Stephen Xia , Yu Deng , Nabil Alshurafa

We propose a novel activity-based profiling framework to estimate IoT users' harvested energy based on their daily activities. Energy is harvested from natural sources such as the kinetic movement of IoT users. The profiling framework…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Jiajie Li , Amani Abusafia , Abdallah Lakhdari , Athman Bouguettaya

Advances in deep learning for human activity recognition have been relatively limited due to the lack of large labelled datasets. In this study, we leverage self-supervised learning techniques on the UK-Biobank activity tracker dataset--the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Hang Yuan , Shing Chan , Andrew P. Creagh , Catherine Tong , Aidan Acquah , David A. Clifton , Aiden Doherty

The research on human activity recognition has provided novel solutions to many applications like healthcare, sports, and user profiling. Considering the complex nature of human activities, it is still challenging even after effective and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ranjit Kolkar , Geetha V

Conventional systems for motion context detection rely on batteries to provide the energy required for sampling a motion sensor. Batteries, however, have limited capacity and, once depleted, have to be replaced or recharged. Kinetic Energy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-02-13 Muhammad Moid Sandhu , Kai Geissdoerfer , Sara Khalifa , Raja Jurdak , Marius Portmann , Brano Kusy

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a rapidly growing field that utilizes smart devices, sensors, and algorithms to automatically classify and identify the actions of individuals within a given environment. These systems have a wide range…

Smart wearables have played an integral part in our day to day life. From recording ECG signals to analysing body fat composition, the smart wearables can do it all. The smart devices encompass various sensors which can be employed to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-08-01 Gayathri S , Akshat Anand , Astha Vijayvargiya , Pushpalatha M , Vaishnavi Moorthy , Sumit Kumar , Harichandana B S S

Piezoelectric energy harvester, which generates electricity from stress or vibrations, is gaining increasing attention as a viable solution to extend battery life in wearables. Recent research further reveals that, besides generating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Dong Ma , Guohao Lan , Weitao Xu , Mahbub Hassan , Wen Hu

Human activity recognition (HAR) by wearable sensor devices embedded in the Internet of things (IOT) can play a significant role in remote health monitoring and emergency notification, to provide healthcare of higher standards. The purpose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 M. Abid , A. Khabou , Y. Ouakrim , H. Watel , S. Chemkhi , A. Mitiche , A. Benazza-Benyahia , N. Mezghani

We developed a ResNet-based human activity recognition (HAR) model with minimal overhead to detect gait versus non-gait activities and everyday activities (walking, running, stairs, standing, sitting, lying, sit-to-stand transitions). The…

Wearable devices are increasingly used, thanks to the wide set of applications that can be deployed exploiting their ability to monitor physical activity and health-related parameters. Their usage has been recently proposed to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Emanuele Maiorana , Chiara Romano , Emiliano Schena , Carlo Massaroni

Manufacturing industries strive to improve production efficiency and product quality by deploying advanced sensing and control systems. Wearable sensors are emerging as a promising solution for achieving this goal, as they can provide…

Human activity recognition (HAR) is an essential research field that has been used in different applications including home and workplace automation, security and surveillance as well as healthcare. Starting from conventional machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Rebeen Ali Hamad , Wai Lok Woo , Bo Wei , Longzhi Yang

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, 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

Action monitoring in a home environment provides important information for health monitoring and may serve as input into a smart home environment. Visual analysis using cameras can recognise actions in a complex scene, such as someones…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Lili Tao , Timothy Volonakis , Bo Tan , Yanguo Jing , Kevin Chetty , Melvyn Smith

Unobtrusive and smart recognition of human activities using smartphones inertial sensors is an interesting topic in the field of artificial intelligence acquired tremendous popularity among researchers, especially in recent years. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Meysam Vakili , Masoumeh Rezaei

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