English
Related papers

Related papers: Sensor-Based Data Acquisition via Ubiquitous Devic…

200 papers

A continuous monitoring of the physical strength and mobility of elderly people is important for maintaining their health and treating diseases at an early stage. However, frequent screenings by physicians are exceeding the logistic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Björn Friedrich , Enno-Edzard Steen , Sebastian Fudickar , Andreas Hein

When creating multi-channel time-series datasets for Human Activity Recognition (HAR), researchers are faced with the issue of subject selection criteria. It is unknown what physical characteristics and/or soft-biometrics, such as age,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Nilah Ravi Nair , Lena Schmid , Fernando Moya Rueda , Markus Pauly , Gernot A. Fink , Christopher Reining

This work presents a wearable human activity recognition (HAR) system that performs real-time inference directly inside a shank-mounted inertial measurement unit (IMU) to support low-latency control of a lower-limb exoskeleton. Unlike…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mohammadsaleh Razmi , Iman Shojaei

Wearable devices running Human Activity Recognition(HAR) on Inertial Measurement Units~(IMUs) waste energy by performing continuous classification for each window, even during long periods of unchanged activity. We address this with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-05 Sara Rimoldi , Arianna De Vecchi , Hazem Hesham Yousef Shalby , Federica Villa

While physical activity has been described as a primary prevention against chronic diseases, strenuous physical exertion under adverse ambient conditions has also been reported as a major contributor to exacerbation of chronic respiratory…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Chinazunwa Uwaoma

Ambient computing is gaining popularity as a major technological advancement for the future. The modern era has witnessed a surge in the advancement in healthcare systems, with viable radio frequency solutions proposed for remote and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Muhammad Zakir Khan , Jawad Ahmad , Wadii Boulila , Matthew Broadbent , Syed Aziz Shah , Anis Koubaa , Qammer H. Abbasi

Human Activity Recognition (HAR), based on machine and deep learning algorithms is considered one of the most promising technologies to monitor professional and daily life activities for different categories of people (e.g., athletes,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Graziano Pravadelli

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) stands as a pivotal technique within pattern recognition, dedicated to deciphering human movements and actions utilizing one or multiple sensory inputs. Its significance extends across diverse applications,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Farhad Nazari , Arian Shajari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer

Human activity recognition (HAR) is essential for effective Human-Robot Collaboration (HRC), enabling robots to interpret and respond to human actions. This study evaluates the ability of a vision-based tactile sensor to classify 15…

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

Understanding human behavior is an important task and has applications in many domains such as targeted advertisement, health analytics, security, and entertainment, etc. For this purpose, designing a system for activity recognition (AR) is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Sarwan Ali

Protective behavior exhibited by people with chronic pain (CP) during physical activities is the key to understanding their physical and emotional states. Existing automatic protective behavior detection (PBD) methods rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-03 Chongyang Wang , Yuan Gao , Akhil Mathur , Amanda C. De C. Williams , Nicholas D. Lane , Nadia Bianchi-Berthouze

Deploying human activity recognition (HAR) at home is still rare because sensor signals vary wildly across houses, people, and time, essentially requiring in-situ data collection and training. Prior approaches use cameras to generate…

Daily activity monitoring systems used in households provide vital information for health status, particularly with aging residents. Multiple approaches have been introduced to achieve such goals, typically obtrusive and non-obtrusive.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-16 Dina E. Abdelaleem , Hassan M. Ahmed , M. Sami Soliman , Tarek M. Said

Human action detection is a hot topic, which is widely used in video surveillance, human machine interface, healthcare monitoring, gaming, dancing training and musical instrument teaching. As inertial sensors are low cost, portable, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-14 Xia Gong , Yan Lu , Haoran Wei

Previous work has demonstrated that virtual accelerometry data, extracted from videos using cross-modality transfer approaches like IMUTube, is beneficial for training complex and effective human activity recognition (HAR) models. Systems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-03 Zikang Leng , Yash Jain , Hyeokhyen Kwon , Thomas Plötz

Human activity recognition (HAR) ideally relies on data from wearable or environment-instrumented sensors sampled at regular intervals, enabling standard neural network models optimized for consistent time-series data as input. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Mengxi Liu , Daniel Geißler , Sizhen Bian , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

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…

Leveraging wearable devices for motion reconstruction has emerged as an economical and viable technique. Certain methodologies employ sparse Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) on the human body and harness data-driven strategies to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Xueyuan Yang , Chao Yao , Xiaojuan Ban

We train and validate a semi-supervised, multi-task LSTM on 57,675 person-weeks of data from off-the-shelf wearable heart rate sensors, showing high accuracy at detecting multiple medical conditions, including diabetes (0.8451), high…