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Within Human Activity Recognition (HAR), there is an insurmountable gap between the range of activities performed in life and those that can be captured in an annotated sensor dataset used in training. Failure to properly handle unseen…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Conor McCarthy , Loes Quirijnen , Jan Peter van Zandwijk , Zeno Geradts , Marcel Worring

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems have been extensively studied by the vision and ubiquitous computing communities due to their practical applications in daily life, such as smart homes, surveillance, and health monitoring.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hyeongju Choi , Apoorva Beedu , Irfan Essa

Recognizing human activities from multi-channel time series data collected from wearable sensors is ever more practical. However, in real-world conditions, coherent activities and body movements could happen at the same time, like moving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Liming Zhang

Batteryless or so called passive wearables are providing new and innovative methods for human activity recognition (HAR), especially in healthcare applications for older people. Passive sensors are low cost, lightweight, unobtrusive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Alireza Abedin , S. Hamid Rezatofighi , Qinfeng Shi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

The vast proliferation of sensor devices and Internet of Things enables the applications of sensor-based activity recognition. However, there exist substantial challenges that could influence the performance of the recognition system in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Kaixuan Chen , Dalin Zhang , Lina Yao , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Yunhao Liu

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a fundamental technology for numerous human - centered intelligent applications. Although deep learning methods have been utilized to accelerate feature extraction, issues such as multimodal data mixing,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Ying Yu , Siyao Li , Yixuan Jiang , Hang Xiao , Jingxi Long , Haotian Tang , Hanyu Liu , Chao Li

Human activity recognition (HAR) research has increased in recent years due to its applications in mobile health monitoring, activity recognition, and patient rehabilitation. The typical approach is training a HAR classifier offline with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Sizhe An , Ganapati Bhat , Suat Gumussoy , Umit Ogras

Continual learning, also known as lifelong learning, is an emerging research topic that has been attracting increasing interest in the field of machine learning. With human activity recognition (HAR) playing a key role in enabling numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Rebecca Adaimi , Edison Thomaz

Wearable HAR has improved steadily, but most progress still relies on closed-set classification, which limits real-world use. In practice, human activity is open-ended, unscripted, personalized, and often compositional, unfolding as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Mengxi Liu , Alcina Pinto , Deepika Gurung , Daniel Geissler , Paul Lukowoicz , Bo Zhou

Many deep architectures and self-supervised pre-training techniques have been proposed for human activity recognition (HAR) from wearable multimodal sensors. Scaling laws have the potential to help move towards more principled design by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tom Hoddes , Alex Bijamov , Saket Joshi , Daniel Roggen , Ali Etemad , Robert Harle , David Racz

We reveal critical insights into problems of bias in state-of-the-art facial recognition (FR) systems using a novel Balanced Faces In the Wild (BFW) dataset: data balanced for gender and ethnic groups. We show variations in the optimal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-22 Joseph P Robinson , Gennady Livitz , Yann Henon , Can Qin , Yun Fu , Samson Timoner

While the widely available embedded sensors in smartphones and other wearable devices make it easier to obtain data of human activities, recognizing different types of human activities from sensor-based data remains a difficult research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using on-body devices identifies specific human actions in unconstrained environments. HAR is challenging due to the inter and intra-variance of human movements; moreover, annotated datasets from on-body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Shrutarv Awasthi , Fernando Moya Rueda , Gernot A. Fink

The rising demand for detecting hazardous situations has led to increased interest in radar-based human activity recognition (HAR). Conventional radar-based HAR methods predominantly rely on micro-Doppler spectrograms for recognition tasks.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-23 Do-Hyun Park , Min-Wook Jeon , Hyoung-Nam Kim

In natural language processing, a recently popular line of work explores how to best report the experimental results of neural networks. One exemplar publication, titled "Show Your Work: Improved Reporting of Experimental Results,"…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-04-29 Raphael Tang , Jaejun Lee , Ji Xin , Xinyu Liu , Yaoliang Yu , Jimmy Lin

Human activity recognition (HAR) using machine learning has shown tremendous promise in detecting construction workers' activities. HAR has many applications in human-robot interaction research to enable robots' understanding of human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Farid Shahnavaz , Riley Tavassoli , Reza Akhavian

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) involves the automatic identification of user activities and has gained significant research interest due to its broad applicability. Most HAR systems rely on supervised learning, which necessitates large,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Xian Gao , Haoyue Zhang , Zongyun Zhang , Jiacheng Ruan , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

Human activity recognition is challenging because sensor signals shift with context, motion, and environment; effective models must therefore remain stable as the world around them changes. We introduce a categorical symmetry-aware learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yoshihiro Maruyama

Several techniques have been proposed to address the problem of recognizing activities of daily living from signals. Deep learning techniques applied to inertial signals have proven to be effective, achieving significant classification…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Hamza Amrani , Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) aims to recognize activities by training models on massive sensor data. In real-world deployment, a crucial aspect of HAR that has been largely overlooked is that the test sets may have different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Di Xiong , Shuoyuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Wenbo Huang , Chaolei Han