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One of the primary challenges in the field of human activity recognition (HAR) is the lack of large labeled datasets. This hinders the development of robust and generalizable models. Recently, cross modality transfer approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Zikang Leng , Amitrajit Bhattacharjee , Hrudhai Rajasekhar , Lizhe Zhang , Elizabeth Bruda , Hyeokhyen Kwon , Thomas Plötz

Automatically describing video, or video captioning, has been widely studied in the multimedia field. This paper proposes a new task of sensor-augmented egocentric-video captioning, a newly constructed dataset for it called MMAC Captions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Katsuyuki Nakamura , Hiroki Ohashi , Mitsuhiro Okada

The focal point of egocentric video understanding is modelling hand-object interactions. Standard models, e.g. CNNs or Vision Transformers, which receive RGB frames as input perform well. However, their performance improves further by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Gorjan Radevski , Dusan Grujicic , Marie-Francine Moens , Matthew Blaschko , Tinne Tuytelaars

The ubiquitous availability of smartphones and smartwatches with integrated inertial measurement units (IMUs) enables straightforward capturing of human activities. For specific applications of sensor based human activity recognition (HAR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Megha Thukral , Harish Haresamudram , Thomas Ploetz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with wearable sensors is challenged by limited interpretability, which significantly impacts cross-dataset generalization. To address this challenge, we propose Motion-Primitive Transformer (MoPFormer), a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Hao Zhang , Zhan Zhuang , Xuehao Wang , Xiaodong Yang , Yu Zhang

Egocentric action recognition enables robots to facilitate human-robot interactions and monitor task progress. Existing methods often rely solely on RGB videos, although additional modalities, such as audio, can improve accuracy under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Maria Santos-Villafranca , Dustin Carrión-Ojeda , Alejandro Perez-Yus , Jesus Bermudez-Cameo , Jose J. Guerrero , Simone Schaub-Meyer

Understanding human activities and their surrounding environments typically relies on visual perception, yet cameras pose persistent challenges in privacy, safety, energy efficiency, and scalability. We explore an alternative: 4D perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Hao-Yu Hsu , Tianhang Cheng , Jing Wen , Alexander G. Schwing , Shenlong Wang

IMU-based gesture interfaces are being increasingly adopted as efficient, accessible, and intuitive alternatives to traditional input methods, such as touchscreens and voice. However, current gesture recognition algorithms are tailored to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Prerna Khanna , Tanmay Srivastava , Shubham Jain , Aruna Balasubramanian

Human bodily movements convey critical insights into action intentions and cognitive processes, yet existing multimodal systems primarily focused on understanding human motion via language, vision, and audio, which struggle to capture the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Ziwei Shan , Yaoyu He , Chengfeng Zhao , Jiashen Du , Jingyan Zhang , Qixuan Zhang , Jingyi Yu , Lan Xu

Multimodal fusion frameworks for Human Action Recognition (HAR) using depth and inertial sensor data have been proposed over the years. In most of the existing works, fusion is performed at a single level (feature level or decision level),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Zeeshan Ahmad , Naimul Khan

Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are interceptive modalities that provide ego-motion measurements independent of the environmental factors. They are widely adopted in various autonomous systems. Motivated by the limitations in processing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Rooholla Khorrambakht , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Hamed Damirchi , Zhenghua Chen , Zhengguo Li

The widespread use of multi-sensor systems has increased research in multi-view action recognition. While existing approaches in multi-view setups with fully overlapping sensors benefit from consistent view coverage, partially overlapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Trung Thanh Nguyen , Yasutomo Kawanishi , Vijay John , Takahiro Komamizu , Ichiro Ide

We present COMO, a real-time monocular mapping and odometry system that encodes dense geometry via a compact set of 3D anchor points. Decoding anchor point projections into dense geometry via per-keyframe depth covariance functions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-24 Eric Dexheimer , Andrew J. Davison

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors are widely employed for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) due to their portability, energy efficiency, and growing research interest. However, a significant challenge for IMU-HAR models is achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qi Qiu , Tao Zhu , Furong Duan , Kevin I-Kai Wang , Liming Chen , Mingxing Nie , Mingxing Nie

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable devices such as smart watches embedded with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors has various applications relevant to our daily life, such as workout tracking and health monitoring. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Wenjin Tao , Haodong Chen , Md Moniruzzaman , Ming C. Leu , Zhaozheng Yi , Ruwen Qin

We present IMU2CLIP, a novel pre-training approach to align Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) motion sensor recordings with video and text, by projecting them into the joint representation space of Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Seungwhan Moon , Andrea Madotto , Zhaojiang Lin , Alireza Dirafzoon , Aparajita Saraf , Amy Bearman , Babak Damavandi

Combining sparse IMUs and a monocular camera is a new promising setting to perform real-time human motion capture. This paper proposes a diffusion-based solution to learn human motion priors and fuse the two modalities of signals together…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Shaohua Pan , Xinyu Yi , Yan Zhou , Weihua Jian , Yuan Zhang , Pengfei Wan , Feng Xu

We are living in a world surrounded by diverse and "smart" devices with rich modalities of sensing ability. Conveniently capturing the interactions between us humans and these objects remains far-reaching. In this paper, we present I'm-HOI,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Chengfeng Zhao , Juze Zhang , Jiashen Du , Ziwei Shan , Junye Wang , Jingyi Yu , Jingya Wang , Lan Xu

Compact wearable mapping system (WMS) has gained significant attention due to their convenience in various applications. Specifically, it provides an efficient way to collect prior maps for 3D structure inspection and robot-based "last-mile…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Jianping Li , Shenghai Yuan , Muqing Cao , Thien-Minh Nguyen , Kun Cao , Lihua Xie

Event cameras are a novel type of biologically inspired vision sensor known for their high temporal resolution, high dynamic range, and low power consumption. Because of these properties, they are well-suited for processing fast motions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Ziyun Wang , Jinyuan Guo , Kostas Daniilidis