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Emerging wearable sensors have enabled the unprecedented ability to continuously monitor human activities for healthcare purposes. However, with so many ambient sensors collecting different measurements, it becomes important not only to…

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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

WiFi-based human activity recognition (HAR) holds significant application potential across various fields. To handle dynamic environments where new activities are continuously introduced, WiFi-based HAR systems must adapt by learning new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Rong Li , Tao Deng , Siwei Feng , Mingjie Sun , Juncheng Jia

As compared to simple actions, activities are much more complex, but semantically consistent with a human's real life. Techniques for action recognition from sensor generated data are mature. However, there has been relatively little work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Ye Liu , Liqiang Nie , Lei Han , Luming Zhang , David S Rosenblum

Wearable sensor based human activity recognition is a challenging problem due to difficulty in modeling spatial and temporal dependencies of sensor signals. Recognition models in closed-set assumption are forced to yield members of known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 M Tanjid Hasan Tonmoy , Saif Mahmud , A K M Mahbubur Rahman , M Ashraful Amin , Amin Ahsan Ali

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a classification task that aims to classify human activities or predict human behavior by means of features extracted from sensors data. Typical HAR systems use wearable sensors and/or handheld and mobile…

Autonomous vehicles use multiple sensors, large deep-learning models, and powerful hardware platforms to perceive the environment and navigate safely. In many contexts, some sensing modalities negatively impact perception while increasing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Arnav Vaibhav Malawade , Trier Mortlock , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on inertial data is an increasingly diffused task on embedded devices, from smartphones to ultra low-power sensors. Due to the high computational complexity of deep learning models, most embedded HAR…

With the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), more sensors are deployed around us, covering a wide range of applications from industry and agriculture to urban environments such as smart cities. Throughout these applications the sensors…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Victor Luder , Michele Magno

Passive sensing techniques based on Wi-Fi signals have emerged as a promising technology in advanced wireless communication systems due to their widespread application and cost-effectiveness. However, the proliferation of low-cost Internet…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-13 Junshuo Liu , Fuhai Wang , Zhe Li , Rujing Xiong , Tiebin Mi , Robert Caiming Qiu

In this study, we propose a method for single sensor-based activity recognition, trained with data from multiple sensors. There is no doubt that the performance of complex activity recognition systems increases when we use enough sensors…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-27 Paula Lago , Moe Matsuki , Sozo Inoue

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

Compared to other biometrics, gait is difficult to conceal and has the advantage of being unobtrusive. Inertial sensors, such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, are often used to capture gait dynamics. These inertial sensors are commonly…

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Wireless charging pads are common, yet their functionality is mainly restricted to charging. Existing gesture recognition techniques, such as those based on machine vision and WiFi, have drawbacks like high costs and poor precision. This…

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Active visual perception refers to the ability of a system to dynamically engage with its environment through sensing and action, allowing it to modify its behavior in response to specific goals or uncertainties. Unlike passive systems that…

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Electricity consumed by residential consumers counts for a significant part of global electricity consumption and utility companies can collect high-resolution load data thanks to the widely deployed advanced metering infrastructure. There…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Hao Wang , Gonzague Henri , Chin-Woo Tan , Ram Rajagopal

Human activity recognition is critical for applications such as early intervention and health analytics. Traditional activity recognition relies on inertial measurement units (IMUs), which are resource intensive and require calibration.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-25 Sina Montazeri , Waltenegus Dargie , Yunhe Feng , Kewei Sha

We present ActSonic, an intelligent, low-power active acoustic sensing system integrated into eyeglasses that can recognize 27 different everyday activities (e.g., eating, drinking, toothbrushing) from inaudible acoustic waves around the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Saif Mahmud , Vineet Parikh , Qikang Liang , Ke Li , Ruidong Zhang , Ashwin Ajit , Vipin Gunda , Devansh Agarwal , François Guimbretière , Cheng Zhang

Wearables like smartwatches or wrist bands equipped with pervasive sensors enable us to monitor our physiological signals. In this study, we address the question whether they can help us to recognize our emotions in our everyday life for…

Advances in IoT technologies combined with new algorithms have enabled the collection and processing of high-rate multi-source data streams that quantify human behavior in a fine-grained level and can lead to deeper insights on individual…