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Fitness movement recognition, a focused subdomain of human activity recognition (HAR), plays a vital role in health monitoring, rehabilitation, and personalized fitness training by enabling automated exercise classification from video data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Shanjid Hasan Nishat , Srabonti Deb , Mohiuddin Ahmed

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

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been an active research area, owing to its applications in smart environments, assisted living, fitness, healthcare, etc. Recently, deep learning based end-to-end training has resulted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Sourish Gunesh Dhekane , Thomas Ploetz

Skeleton-based human action recognition has achieved remarkable progress in recent years. However, most existing GCN-based methods rely on short-range motion topologies, which not only struggle to capture long-range joint dependencies and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Ruosi Wang , Fangwei Zuo , Lei Li , Zhaoqiang Xia

The emergence of self-supervised learning in the field of wearables-based human activity recognition (HAR) has opened up opportunities to tackle the most pressing challenges in the field, namely to exploit unlabeled data to derive reliable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Harish Haresamudram , Irfan Essa , Thomas Plötz

Human activity recognition (HAR) is fundamental in human-robot collaboration (HRC), enabling robots to respond to and dynamically adapt to human intentions. This paper introduces a HAR system combining a modular data glove equipped with…

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) describes the machines ability to recognize human actions. Nowadays, most people on earth are health conscious, so people are more interested in tracking their daily activities using Smartphones or Smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Sanku Satya Uday , Satti Thanuja Pavani , T. Jaya Lakshmi , Rohit Chivukula

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) is now a research hotspot in multiple application areas. With the rise of smart wearable devices equipped with inertial measurement units (IMUs), researchers begin to utilize IMU data for HAR.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-09 Fanyi Xiao , Ling Pei , Lei Chu , Danping Zou , Wenxian Yu , Yifan Zhu , Tao Li

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a crucial area of research that involves understanding human movements using computer and machine vision technology. Deep learning has emerged as a powerful tool for this task, with models such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Mohammad Belal , Taimur Hassan , Abdelfatah Ahmed , Ahmad Aljarah , Nael Alsheikh , Irfan Hussain

Human action recognition (HAR) in videos is a fundamental research topic in computer vision. It consists mainly in understanding actions performed by humans based on a sequence of visual observations. In recent years, HAR have witnessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Soufiane Lamghari , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier

Developing zero-shot human activity recognition (HAR) methods is a critical direction in smart home research -- considering its impact on making HAR systems work across smart homes having diverse sensing modalities, layouts, and activities…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Sourish Gunesh Dhekane , Thomas Ploetz

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) requires to predict the action of a person based on sensor-generated time series data. HAR has attracted major interest in the past few years, thanks to the large number of applications enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Davide Buffelli , Fabio Vandin

Human action recognition often struggles with deep semantic understanding, complex contextual information, and fine-grained distinction, limitations that traditional methods frequently encounter when dealing with diverse video data.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Jingwei Peng , Zhixuan Qiu , Boyu Jin , Surasakdi Siripong

One of the primary challenges in the field of human activity recognition (HAR) is the lack of large labeled datasets. This hinders the development of robust and generalizable models. Recently, cross modality transfer approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Zikang Leng , Amitrajit Bhattacharjee , Hrudhai Rajasekhar , Lizhe Zhang , Elizabeth Bruda , Hyeokhyen Kwon , Thomas Plötz

Multimodal human action recognition (HAR) leverages complementary sensors for activity classification. Beyond recognition, recent advances in large language models (LLMs) enable detailed descriptions and causal reasoning, motivating new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Siyang Jiang , Mu Yuan , Xiang Ji , Bufang Yang , Zeyu Liu , Lilin Xu , Yang Li , Yuting He , Liran Dong , Wenrui Lu , Zhenyu Yan , Xiaofan Jiang , Wei Gao , Hongkai Chen , Guoliang Xing

We propose the use of self-supervised learning for human activity recognition with smartphone accelerometer data. Our proposed solution consists of two steps. First, the representations of unlabeled input signals are learned by training a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-09-03 Setareh Rahimi Taghanaki , Michael Rainbow , Ali Etemad

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

Human activity recognition (HAR) in ubiquitous computing is beginning to adopt deep learning to substitute for well-established analysis techniques that rely on hand-crafted feature extraction and classification techniques. From these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Nils Y. Hammerla , Shane Halloran , Thomas Ploetz

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