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Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as a promising solution in Edge Computing (EC) environments to process the proliferation of data generated by edge devices. By collaboratively optimizing the global machine learning models on distributed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Yongzhe Jia , Xuyun Zhang , Amin Beheshti , Wanchun Dou

We consider human activity recognition (HAR) from wearable sensor data in manual-work processes, like warehouse order-picking. Such structured domains can often be partitioned into distinct process steps, e.g., packaging or transporting.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Stefan Lüdtke , Fernando Moya Rueda , Waqas Ahmed , Gernot A. Fink , Thomas Kirste

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a vital role in applications such as fitness tracking, smart homes, and healthcare monitoring. Traditional HAR systems often rely on single modalities, such as motion sensors or cameras, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Asmit Bandyopadhyay , Rohit Basu , Tanmay Sen , Swagatam Das

Sensor-based human activity segmentation and recognition are two important and challenging problems in many real-world applications and they have drawn increasing attention from the deep learning community in recent years. Most of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Furong Duan , Tao Zhu , Jinqiang Wang , Liming Chen , Huansheng Ning , Yaping Wan

Our ability to exploit low-cost wearable sensing modalities for critical human behaviour and activity monitoring applications in health and wellness is reliant on supervised learning regimes; here, deep learning paradigms have proven…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Alireza Abedin , Farbod Motlagh , Qinfeng Shi , Seyed Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith Chinthana Ranasinghe

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable and mobile sensors has gained momentum in last few years, in various fields, such as, healthcare, surveillance, education, entertainment. Nowadays, Edge Computing has emerged to reduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Preeti Agarwal , Mansaf Alam

Federated Learning (FL) enables distributed training of machine learning models while keeping personal data on user devices private. While we witness increasing applications of FL in the area of mobile sensing, such as human activity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Hyunsung Cho , Akhil Mathur , Fahim Kawsar

Federated learning (FL) is a novel distributed machine learning paradigm that enables participants to collaboratively train a centralized model with privacy preservation by eliminating the requirement of data sharing. In practice, FL often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Wei Guo , Fuzhen Zhuang , Xiao Zhang , Yiqi Tong , Jin Dong

Federated learning allows a large number of devices to jointly learn a model without sharing data. In this work, we enable clients with limited computing power to perform action recognition, a computationally heavy task. We first perform…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Pranjal Jain , Shreyas Goenka , Saurabh Bagchi , Biplab Banerjee , Somali Chaterji

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) underpins many ubiquitous and wearable computing applications, yet current models remain limited by scarce labels, sensor heterogeneity, and weak generalization across users, devices, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Sizhen Bian , Mengxi Liu , Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Thomas Ploetz , Paul Lukowicz , Siyu Yuan , Vitor Fortes Rey

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

Deep learning has proven to be an effective approach in the field of Human activity recognition (HAR), outperforming other architectures that require manual feature engineering. Despite recent advancements, challenges inherent to HAR data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-18 Yiran Huang , Yexu Zhou , Till Riedel , Likun Fang , Michael Beigl

Wearable devices such as smartwatches are becoming increasingly popular tools for objectively monitoring physical activity in free-living conditions. To date, research has primarily focused on the purely supervised task of human activity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Dimitris Spathis , Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo , Soren Brage , Nicholas J. Wareham , Cecilia Mascolo

Sensors are an integral part of modern Internet of Things (IoT) applications. There is a critical need for the analysis of heterogeneous multivariate temporal data obtained from the individual sensors of these systems. In this paper we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-14 Yujing Chen , Yue Ning , Zheng Chai , Huzefa Rangwala

Deep learning for human sensing on edge systems presents significant potential for smart applications. However, its training and development are hindered by the limited availability of sensor data and resource constraints of edge systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yu Zhang , Xi Zhang , Hualin Zhou , Xinyuan Chen , Shang Gao , Hong Jia , Jianfei Yang , Yuankai Qi , Tao Gu

Federated learning poses new statistical and systems challenges in training machine learning models over distributed networks of devices. In this work, we show that multi-task learning is naturally suited to handle the statistical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Virginia Smith , Chao-Kai Chiang , Maziar Sanjabi , Ameet Talwalkar

Automated and accurate human activity recognition (HAR) using body-worn sensors enables practical and cost efficient remote monitoring of Activity of DailyLiving (ADL), which are shown to provide clinical insights across multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Maximilien Burq , Niranjan Sridhar

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

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR), i.e., the ability to discover human daily activity patterns from wearable or embedded sensors, is a key enabler for many real-world applications in smart homes, personal healthcare, and urban…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Saurav Jha , Martin Schiemer , Franco Zambonelli , Juan Ye

While activity recognition from inertial sensors holds potential for mobile health, differences in sensing platforms and user movement patterns cause performance degradation. Aiming to address these challenges, we propose a transfer…