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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on mobile devices has been demonstrated to be possible using neural models trained on data collected from the device's inertial measurement units. These models have used Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Sannara EK , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda

Human activity recognition (HAR) based on mobile sensors plays an important role in ubiquitous computing. However, the rise of data regulatory constraints precludes collecting private and labeled signal data from personal devices at scale.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-02 Chenglin Li , Di Niu , Bei Jiang , Xiao Zuo , Jianming Yang

Human activity recognition (HAR) is an essential research field that has been used in different applications including home and workplace automation, security and surveillance as well as healthcare. Starting from conventional machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Rebeen Ali Hamad , Wai Lok Woo , Bo Wei , Longzhi Yang

Sensor-based human activity recognition is a key technology for many human-centered intelligent applications. However, this research is still in its infancy and faces many unresolved challenges. To address these, we propose a comprehensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-04-08 Hanyu Liu , Ying Yu , Hang Xiao , Siyao Li , Xuze Li , Jiarui Li , Haotian Tang

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…

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) via Wi-Fi Channel State Information (CSI) presents a privacy-preserving, contactless sensing approach suitable for smart homes, healthcare monitoring, and mobile IoT systems. However, existing methods often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Kexing Liu

Activity recognition systems that are capable of estimating human activities from wearable inertial sensors have come a long way in the past decades. Not only have state-of-the-art methods moved away from feature engineering and have fully…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Marius Bock , Alexander Hoelzemann , Michael Moeller , Kristof Van Laerhoven

In the many years since the inception of wearable sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR), a wide variety of methods have been introduced and evaluated for their ability to recognize activities. Substantial gains have been made since…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Harish Haresamudram , Chi Ian Tang , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz , Thomas Ploetz

Human activity recognition (HAR) using wearable sensors has advanced through various machine learning paradigms, each with inherent trade-offs between performance and labeling requirements. While fully supervised techniques achieve high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber

The lack of large-scale, labeled data sets impedes progress in developing robust and generalized predictive models for on-body sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR). Labeled data in human activity recognition is scarce and hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Hyeokhyen Kwon , Catherine Tong , Harish Haresamudram , Yan Gao , Gregory D. Abowd , Nicholas D. Lane , Thomas Ploetz

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

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

The field of Human Activity Recognition (HAR) focuses on obtaining and analysing data captured from monitoring devices (e.g. sensors). There is a wide range of applications within the field; for instance, assisted living, security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Flávia Alves , Martin Gairing , Frans A. Oliehoek , Thanh-Toan Do

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on resource-constrained wearable devices demands inference models that harmonize accuracy with computational efficiency. This paper introduces TinierHAR, an ultra-lightweight deep learning architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Sizhen Bian , Mengxi Liu , Vitor Fortes Rey , Daniel Geissler , Paul Lukowicz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a key building block of many emerging applications such as intelligent mobility, sports analytics, ambient-assisted living and human-robot interaction. With robust HAR, systems will become more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Mirco Moencks , Varuna De Silva , Jamie Roche , Ahmet Kondoz

Wearables are fundamental to improving our understanding of human activities, especially for an increasing number of healthcare applications from rehabilitation to fine-grained gait analysis. Although our collective know-how to solve Human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Alireza Abedin , Mahsa Ehsanpour , Qinfeng Shi , Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Recent human activity recognition (HAR) methods, based on on-body inertial sensors, have achieved increasing performance; however, this is at the expense of longer CPU calculations and greater energy consumption. Therefore, these complex…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-09-26 Roman Chereshnev , Attila Kertesz-Farkas

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

Deep learning methods are successfully used in applications pertaining to ubiquitous computing, health, and well-being. Specifically, the area of human activity recognition (HAR) is primarily transformed by the convolutional and recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi , Johan Lukkien

In this paper, we introduce a low-cost and low-power tiny supervised on-device learning (ODL) core that can address the distributional shift of input data for human activity recognition. Although ODL for resource-limited edge devices has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Hiroki Matsutani , Radu Marculescu