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Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition (HAR) provides substantial convenience and has emerged as a thriving research field, yet the coarse spatial resolution inherent to Wi-Fi significantly hinders its ability to distinguish multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-22 Xin Li , Jingzhi Hu , Yinghui He , Hongbo Wang , Jin Gan , Jun Luo

Conventional human activity recognition (HAR) relies on classifiers trained to predict discrete activity classes, inherently limiting recognition to activities explicitly present in the training set. Such classifiers would invariably fail,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Human activity recognition, facilitated by smart devices, has recently garnered significant attention. Deep learning algorithms have become pivotal in daily activities, sports, and healthcare. Nevertheless, addressing the challenge of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Nazanin Sedaghati , Masoud Kargar , Sina Abbaskhani

As a fundamental problem in ubiquitous computing and machine learning, sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has drawn extensive attention and made great progress in recent years. HAR aims to recognize human activities based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Yimu Wang , Kun Yu , Yan Wang , Hui Xue

The proliferation of deep learning has significantly advanced various fields, yet Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has not fully capitalized on these developments, primarily due to the scarcity of labeled datasets. Despite the integration…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Parham Zolfaghari , Vitor Fortes Rey , Lala Ray , Hyun Kim , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is the identification and classification of static and dynamic human activities, which find applicability in domains like healthcare, entertainment, security, and cyber-physical systems. Traditional HAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Nuno Paulino , Mariana Oliveira , Francisco Ribeiro , Luís Outeiro , Pedro A. Lopes , Francisco Vilarinho , Sofia Inácio , Luís M. Pessoa

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…

Vision-based human activity recognition (HAR) has made substantial progress in recognizing predefined gestures but lacks adaptability for emerging activities. This paper introduces a paradigm shift by harnessing generative modeling and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Nikhil Kashyap , Manas Satish Bedmutha , Prerit Chaudhary , Brian Wood , Wanda Pratt , Janice Sabin , Andrea Hartzler , Nadir Weibel

Human activity recognition (HAR) is one of the core research themes in ubiquitous and wearable computing. With the shift to deep learning (DL) based analysis approaches, it has become possible to extract high-level features and perform…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Shuai Shao , Yu Guan , Bing Zhai , Paolo Missier , Thomas Ploetz

Automatic human affect recognition is a key step towards more natural human-computer interaction. Recent trends include recognition in the wild using a fusion of audiovisual and physiological sensors, a challenging setting for conventional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-11 Philipp V. Rouast , Marc T. P. Adam , Raymond Chiong

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on wearable inertial sensors plays a critical role in remote health monitoring. In patients with movement disorders, the ability to detect abnormal patient movements in their home environments can…

Human activity recognition (HAR) in ubiquitous computing has been beginning to incorporate attention into the context of deep neural networks (DNNs), in which the rich sensing data from multimodal sensors such as accelerometer and gyroscope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Wenbin Gao , Lei Zhang , Qi Teng , Jun He , Hao Wu

Developing human activity recognition (HAR) systems for smart homes is not straightforward due to varied layouts of the homes and their personalized settings, as well as idiosyncratic behaviors of residents. As such, off-the-shelf HAR…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Shruthi K. Hiremath , Thomas Ploetz

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a time series classification task that focuses on identifying the motion patterns from human sensor readings. Adequate data is essential but a major bottleneck for training a generalizable HAR model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Xin Qin , Jindong Wang , Shuo Ma , Wang Lu , Yongchun Zhu , Xing Xie , Yiqiang Chen

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

As of today, state-of-the-art activity recognition from wearable sensors relies on algorithms being trained to classify fixed windows of data. In contrast, video-based Human Activity Recognition, known as Temporal Action Localization (TAL),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Marius Bock , Michael Moeller , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Human activity recognition plays an important role in people's daily life. However, it is often expensive and time-consuming to acquire sufficient labeled activity data. To solve this problem, transfer learning leverages the labeled samples…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-08-21 Jindong Wang , Vincent W. Zheng , Yiqiang Chen , Meiyu Huang

The research of machine learning (ML) algorithms for human activity recognition (HAR) has made significant progress with publicly available datasets. However, most research prioritizes statistical metrics over examining negative sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Daniel Geissler , Dominique Nshimyimana , Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Deep learning has raised hopes and expectations as a general solution for many applications; indeed it has proven effective, but it also showed a strong dependence on large quantities of data. Luckily, it has been shown that, even when data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Fabio Maria Carlucci

Synthetic data offers a compelling path to scalable pretraining when real-world data is scarce, but models pretrained on synthetic data often fail to transfer reliably to deployment settings. We study this problem in full-body human motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Firas Darwish , George Nicholson , Aiden Doherty , Hang Yuan