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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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has been a popular research field due to the widespread of devices with sensors and computational power (e.g., smartphones and smartwatches). Applications for HAR systems have been extensively researched in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Paulo J. S. Ferreira , João Mendes Moreira , João M. P. Cardoso

Wearable sensors have permeated into people's lives, ushering impactful applications in interactive systems and activity recognition. However, practitioners face significant obstacles when dealing with sensing heterogeneities, requiring…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Rebecca Adaimi , Abdelkareem Bedri , Jun Gong , Richard Kang , Joanna Arreaza-Taylor , Gerri-Michelle Pascual , Michael Ralph , Gierad Laput

Active sensing refers to the process of choosing or tuning a set of sensors in order to track an underlying system in an efficient and accurate way. In a wireless environment, among the several kinds of features extracted by traditional…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-05-30 Alessandro Biason , Urbashi Mitra , Michele Zorzi

Internet of Things forms the backbone of modern building applications. Wireless sensors are being increasingly adopted for their flexibility and reduced cost of deployment. However, most wireless sensors are powered by batteries today and…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-05 Francesco Fraternali , Bharathan Balaji , Yuvraj Agarwal , Rajesh K. Gupta

IoT devices are increasingly being implemented with neural network models to enable smart applications. Energy harvesting (EH) technology that harvests energy from ambient environment is a promising alternative to batteries for powering…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Sahidul Islam , Shanglin Zhou , Ran Ran , Yufang Jin , Wujie Wen , Caiwen Ding , Mimi Xie

This paper presents a comprehensive dataset intended to evaluate passive Human Activity Recognition (HAR) and localization techniques with measurements obtained from synchronized Radio-Frequency (RF) devices and vision-based sensors. The…

There is growing concern about how personal data are used when users grant applications direct access to the sensors of their mobile devices. In fact, high resolution temporal data generated by motion sensors reflect directly the activities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-21 Mohammad Malekzadeh , Richard G. Clegg , Andrea Cavallaro , Hamed Haddadi

Current studies in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) primarily focus on the classification of activities through sensor data, while there is not much emphasis placed on recognizing the individuals performing these activities. This type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Debashish Saha , Piyush Malik , Adrika Saha

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

The current dominated wearable body motion sensor is IMU. This work presented an alternative wearable motion-sensing approach: human body capacitance (HBC, also commonly defined as body-area electric field). While being less robust in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Sizhen Bian , Vitor Fortes Rey , Siyu Yuan , Paul Lukowicz

We propose SmartON, a batteryless system that learns to wake up proactively at the right moment in order to detect events of interest. It does so by adapting the duty cycle to match the distribution of event arrival times under the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-07 Yubo Luo , Shahriar Nirjon

Wearable cameras can gather large a\-mounts of image data that provide rich visual information about the daily activities of the wearer. Motivated by the large number of health applications that could be enabled by the automatic recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-11 Alejandro Cartas , Juan Marin , Petia Radeva , Mariella Dimiccoli

With the number of communicating sensors linked to the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem in-creasing dramatically, well-designed indoor light energy harvesting solutions are needed. The first step towards this development is to determine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-04 Bastien Politi , Alain Foucaran , Nicolas Camara

Despite the widespread integration of ambient light sensors (ALS) in smart devices commonly used for screen brightness adaptation, their application in human activity recognition (HAR), primarily through body-worn ALS, is largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Daniel Geißler , Mengxi Liu , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Many users are confronted multiple times daily with the choice of whether to take the stairs or the elevator. Whereas taking the stairs could be beneficial for cardiovascular health and wellness, taking the elevator might be more convenient…

Pervasive sensing is transforming health and activity monitoring by enabling continuous and automated data collection through advanced sensing modalities. While extensive research has been conducted on human subjects, its application in…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-21 Jeffrey D Shulkin , Abhipol Vibhatasilpin , Vedant Adhana

Transformers have excelled in natural language processing and computer vision, paving their way to sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Previous studies show that transformers outperform their counterparts exclusively when they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Clayton Souza Leite , Henry Mauranen , Aziza Zhanabatyrova , Yu Xiao

Traditional human activity recognition (HAR) based on time series adopts sliding window analysis method. This method faces the multi-class window problem which mistakenly labels different classes of sampling points within a window as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Yong Zhang , Yu Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Jie Bao , Yunpeng Song

Industrial wireless sensor networks enable real-time data collection, analysis, and control by interconnecting diverse industrial devices. In these industrial settings, power outlets are not always available, and reliance on battery power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Dries Van Leemput , Jeroen Hoebeke , Eli De Poorter