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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

Unobtrusive and smart recognition of human activities using smartphones inertial sensors is an interesting topic in the field of artificial intelligence acquired tremendous popularity among researchers, especially in recent years. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Meysam Vakili , Masoumeh Rezaei

Human activity recognition has wide applications in medical research and human survey system. In this project, we design a robust activity recognition system based on a smartphone. The system uses a 3-dimentional smartphone accelerometer as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-02-03 Amin Rasekh , Chien-An Chen , Yan Lu

With each sensing modality exhibiting inherent strengths and limitations, multi-modal approaches for wearable Human Activity Recognition (HAR) are becoming increasingly relevant -- particularly for recognizing Activities of Daily Living…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Robin Burchard , Pascal-André Brückner , Marius Bock , Juergen Gall , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Activity recognition from sensor data deals with various challenges, such as overlapping activities, activity labeling, and activity detection. Although each challenge in the field of recognition has great importance, the most important one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-13 Parviz Asghari , Ehsan Nazerfard

Musculoskeletal injuries during military training significantly impact readiness, making prevention through activity monitoring crucial. While Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable devices offers promising solutions, it faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Barak Gahtan , Shany Funk , Einat Kodesh , Itay Ketko , Tsvi Kuflik , Alex M. Bronstein

We propose a novel use of the conventional energy storage component, i.e., capacitor, in kinetic-powered wearable IoTs as a sensor to detect human activities. Since different activities accumulate energies in the capacitor at different…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2018-06-20 Guohao Lan , Dong Ma , Weitao Xu , Mahbub Hassan , Wen Hu

Deep neural network is an effective choice to automatically recognize human actions utilizing data from various wearable sensors. These networks automate the process of feature extraction relying completely on data. However, various noises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Tanvir Mahmud , A. Q. M. Sazzad Sayyed , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah , Sun-Yuan Kung

Human activity detection has seen a tremendous growth in the last decade playing a major role in the field of pervasive computing. This emerging popularity can be attributed to its myriad of real-life applications primarily dealing with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Jitenkumar Babubhai Rana , Rashmi Shetty , Tanya Jha

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

Activity recognition using built-in sensors in smart and wearable devices provides great opportunities to understand and detect human behavior in the wild and gives a more holistic view of individuals' health and well being. Numerous…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-16 Mehrdad Fazli , Kamran Kowsari , Erfaneh Gharavi , Laura Barnes , Afsaneh Doryab

Hand washing is a crucial part of personal hygiene. Hand washing detection is a relevant topic for wearable sensing with applications in the medical and professional fields. Hand washing detection can be used to aid workers in complying…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Robin Burchard , Kristof Van Laerhoven

This paper presents a novel approach to solve simultaneously the problems of human activity recognition and whole-body motion and dynamics prediction for real-time applications. Starting from the dynamics of human motion and motor system…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Kourosh Darvish , Serena Ivaldi , Daniele Pucci

Human activity recognition using multiple sensors is a challenging but promising task in recent decades. In this paper, we propose a deep multimodal fusion model for activity recognition based on the recently proposed feature fusion…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-30 Jun-Ho Choi , Jong-Seok Lee

The research on human activity recognition has provided novel solutions to many applications like healthcare, sports, and user profiling. Considering the complex nature of human activities, it is still challenging even after effective and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ranjit Kolkar , Geetha V

The current gold standard for human activity recognition (HAR) is based on the use of cameras. However, the poor scalability of camera systems renders them impractical in pursuit of the goal of wider adoption of HAR in mobile computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Eoin Brophy , José Juan Dominguez Veiga , Zhengwei Wang , Alan F. Smeaton , Tomas E. Ward

The problem of human activity recognition is central for understanding and predicting the human behavior, in particular in a prospective of assistive services to humans, such as health monitoring, well being, security, etc. There is…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2013-12-30 Faicel Chamroukhi , Samer Mohammed , Dorra Trabelsi , Latifa Oukhellou , Yacine Amirat

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

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

Intelligent surveillance systems often handle perceptual tasks such as object detection, facial recognition, and emotion analysis independently, but they lack a unified, adaptive runtime scheduler that dynamically allocates computational…