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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

The main streams of human activity recognition (HAR) algorithms are developed based on RGB cameras which are suffered from illumination, fast motion, privacy-preserving, and large energy consumption. Meanwhile, the biologically inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Xiao Wang , Zongzhen Wu , Bo Jiang , Zhimin Bao , Lin Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian

Daily activity recognition has gained prominence due to its applications in context-aware computing. Current methods primarily rely on supervised learning for detecting simple, repetitive activities. This paper introduces LayeredSense, a…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Chak Man Lam

Human activity recognition (HAR) research often lacks accessible, comprehensive field data. Commercial systems are rarely open source, hard to expand, and limited by issues like node synchronisation, data throughput, unclear sensor…

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Many deep architectures and self-supervised pre-training techniques have been proposed for human activity recognition (HAR) from wearable multimodal sensors. Scaling laws have the potential to help move towards more principled design by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Tom Hoddes , Alex Bijamov , Saket Joshi , Daniel Roggen , Ali Etemad , Robert Harle , David Racz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with different sensing modalities requires both strong generalization across diverse users and efficient personalization for individuals. However, conventional HAR models often fail to generalize when faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Pixi Kang , Julian Moosmann , Mengxi Liu , Bo Zhou , Michele Magno , Paul Lukowicz , Sizhen Bian

Supervised Deep Learning (DL) models are currently the leading approach for sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on wearable and mobile devices. However, training them requires large amounts of labeled data whose collection is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Luca Arrotta , Gabriele Civitarese , Samuele Valente , Claudio Bettini

Several techniques have been proposed to address the problem of recognizing activities of daily living from signals. Deep learning techniques applied to inertial signals have proven to be effective, achieving significant classification…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Hamza Amrani , Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano

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

Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition (HAR) has emerged as a promising approach for contactless sensing, leveraging channel state information (CSI) collected from wireless transceivers. While existing studies have primarily concentrated on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Amirhossein Mohammadi , Hina Tabassum

While computers play an increasingly important role in every aspect of our lives, their inability to understand what tasks users are physically performing makes a wide range of applications, including health monitoring and context-specific…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Arvind Seshan

Radar-based human activity recognition has gained attention as a privacy-preserving alternative to vision and wearable sensors, especially in sensitive environments like long-term care facilities. Micro-Doppler spectrograms derived from…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-25 Huy Trinh , Davis Liu , Munia Humaira , Peter Lee , Zhou Wang

In smart healthcare, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is considered to be an efficient model in pervasive computation from sensor readings. The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in the home or community helps the people in providing independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Pankaj Khatiwada , Ayan Chatterjee , Matrika Subedi

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable sensor data has become a central task in mobile computing, healthcare, and human-computer interaction. Despite the success of traditional deep learning models such as CNNs and RNNs, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yunbo Liu , Xukui Qin , Yifan Gao , Xiang Li , Chengwei Feng

The passive body-area electrostatic field has recently been aspiringly explored for wearable motion sensing, harnessing its two thrilling characteristics: full-body motion sensitivity and environmental sensitivity, which potentially…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-14 Sizhen Bian , Vitor Fortes Rey , Siyu Yuan , Paul Lukowicz

The use of supervised learning for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on mobile devices leads to strong classification performances. Such an approach, however, requires large amounts of labeled data, both for the initial training of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Riccardo Presotto , Sannara Ek , Gabriele Civitarese , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , Claudio Bettini

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

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

Understanding human actions in visual data is tied to advances in complementary research areas including object recognition, human dynamics, domain adaptation and semantic segmentation. Over the last decade, human action analysis evolved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-02-02 Samitha Herath , Mehrtash Harandi , Fatih Porikli

Given the growing trend of continual learning techniques for deep neural networks focusing on the domain of computer vision, there is a need to identify which of these generalizes well to other tasks such as human activity recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-21 Saurav Jha , Martin Schiemer , Juan Ye