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Human Activity Recognition (HAR), which uses data from Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors, has many practical applications in healthcare and assisted living environments. However, its use in real-world scenarios has been limited by the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Devin Y. De Silva , Sandareka Wickramanayake , Dulani Meedeniya , Sanka Rasnayaka

Unsupervised user adaptation aligns the feature distributions of the data from training users and the new user, so a well-trained wearable human activity recognition (WHAR) model can be well adapted to the new user. With the development of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Ling Chen , Yi Zhang , Shenghuan Miao , Sirou Zhu , Rong Hu , Liangying Peng , Mingqi Lv

Human activity recognition (HAR) research has increased in recent years due to its applications in mobile health monitoring, activity recognition, and patient rehabilitation. The typical approach is training a HAR classifier offline with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Sizhe An , Ganapati Bhat , Suat Gumussoy , Umit Ogras

Human action recognition has been an important topic in computer vision due to its many applications such as video surveillance, human machine interaction and video retrieval. One core problem behind these applications is automatically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-01-27 Guangchun Cheng , Yiwen Wan , Abdullah N. Saudagar , Kamesh Namuduri , Bill P. Buckles

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

Feature extraction is crucial for human activity recognition (HAR) using body-worn movement sensors. Recently, learned representations have been used successfully, offering promising alternatives to manually engineered features. Our work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Harish Haresamudram , Irfan Essa , Thomas Ploetz

To obtain a more comprehensive activity understanding for a crowded scene, in this paper, we propose a new problem of panoramic human activity recognition (PAR), which aims to simultaneous achieve the individual action, social group…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Ruize Han , Haomin Yan , Jiacheng Li , Songmiao Wang , Wei Feng , Song Wang

Deep learning-based human activity recognition (HAR) methods have shown great promise in the applications of smart healthcare systems and wireless body sensor network (BSN). Despite their demonstrated performance in laboratory settings, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Baichun Wei , Chunzhi Yi , Qi Zhang , Haiqi Zhu , Jianfei Zhu , Feng Jiang

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

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been a research focus in the field of ubiquitous and mobile computing for years. In recent years, many deep models have been applied to HAR problems. However, deep learning methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Yujiao Hao , Boyu Wang , Rong Zheng

Most approaches that model time-series data in human activity recognition based on body-worn sensing (HAR) use a fixed size temporal context to represent different activities. This might, however, not be apt for sets of activities with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-22 Vishvak S Murahari , Thomas Ploetz

Current human activity recognition (HAR) techniques regard activity labels as integer class IDs without explicitly modeling the semantics of class labels. We observe that different activity names often have shared structures. For example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xiyuan Zhang , Ranak Roy Chowdhury , Jiayun Zhang , Dezhi Hong , Rajesh K. Gupta , Jingbo Shang

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a critical role in numerous applications, including healthcare monitoring, fitness tracking, and smart environments. Traditional deep learning (DL) approaches, while effective, often require extensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Mohammad Alikhani

The problem of automatic identification of physical activities performed by human subjects is referred to as Human Activity Recognition (HAR). There exist several techniques to measure motion characteristics during these physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-06 Antonio Bevilacqua , Kyle MacDonald , Aamina Rangarej , Venessa Widjaya , Brian Caulfield , Tahar Kechadi

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on inertial data is an increasingly diffused task on embedded devices, from smartphones to ultra low-power sensors. Due to the high computational complexity of deep learning models, most embedded HAR…

To fluently collaborate with people, robots need the ability to recognize human activities accurately. Although modern robots are equipped with various sensors, robust human activity recognition (HAR) still remains a challenging task for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Md Mofijul Islam , Tariq Iqbal

The increase in world elderly population has significantly underlined the need for continuous health care measurement, specifically in rehabilitation monitoring. The new technologies has enabled people to have in home healthcare services,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Shayan Shokri , Shane Ward , Pierre-Amaury M. Anton , Paolo Siffredi , Guglielmo Papetti

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) from wearable sensors supports broad healthcare and behavior science applications. However, data heterogeneity and the scarcity of labeled data limit its real-world generalization. Recent advances in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yize Cai , Rui Feng , Anlan Yu , Baoshen Guo , Zhiqing Hong

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