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Cross-dataset Human Activity Recognition (HAR) suffers from limited model generalization, hindering its practical deployment. To address this critical challenge, inspired by the success of DoReMi in Large Language Models (LLMs), we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Lulu Ban , Tao Zhu , Xiangqing Lu , Qi Qiu , Wenyong Han , Shuangjian Li , Liming Chen , Kevin I-Kai Wang , Mingxing Nie , Yaping Wan

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

Human activity recognition serves as the foundation for various emerging applications. In recent years, researchers have used collaborative sensing of multi-source sensors to capture complex and dynamic human activities. However, multimodal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Long Jing , Zhixiong Yang , Yajun Zhang , Xinlong Feng

Ambient sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) in smart homes remains challenging due to the need for real-time inference, spatially grounded reasoning, and context-aware temporal modeling. Existing approaches often rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Zishuai Liu , Weihang You , Jin Lu , Fei Dou

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a vital role in applications such as fitness tracking, smart homes, and healthcare monitoring. Traditional HAR systems often rely on single modalities, such as motion sensors or cameras, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Asmit Bandyopadhyay , Rohit Basu , Tanmay Sen , Swagatam Das

Motion sensors integrated into wearable and mobile devices provide valuable information about the device users. Machine learning and, recently, deep learning techniques have been used to characterize sensor data. Mostly, a single task, such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Egemen İşgüder , Özlem Durmaz İncel

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a challenging, multi-label classification problem as activities may co-occur and sensor signals corresponding to the same activity may vary in different contexts (e.g., different device placements). This…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-30 Wen Ge , Guanyi Mou , Emmanuel O. Agu , Kyumin Lee

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

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) aims to recognize activities by training models on massive sensor data. In real-world deployment, a crucial aspect of HAR that has been largely overlooked is that the test sets may have different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Di Xiong , Shuoyuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Wenbo Huang , Chaolei Han

Traditional human activity recognition (HAR) based on time series adopts sliding window analysis method. This method faces the multi-class window problem which mistakenly labels different classes of sampling points within a window as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Yong Zhang , Yu Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Jie Bao , Yunpeng Song

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the core research areas in mobile and wearable computing. With the application of deep learning (DL) techniques such as CNN, recognizing periodic or static activities (e.g, walking, lying, cycling,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shuai Shao , Yu Guan , Xin Guan , Paolo Missier , Thomas Ploetz

Visual Human Activity Recognition (HAR) and data fusion with other sensors can help us at tracking the behavior and activity of underground miners with little obstruction. Existing models, such as Single Shot Detector (SSD), trained on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-10 Schalk Wilhelm Pienaar , Reza Malekian

Wearable sensor based human activity recognition is a challenging problem due to difficulty in modeling spatial and temporal dependencies of sensor signals. Recognition models in closed-set assumption are forced to yield members of known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 M Tanjid Hasan Tonmoy , Saif Mahmud , A K M Mahbubur Rahman , M Ashraful Amin , Amin Ahsan Ali

The vast proliferation of sensor devices and Internet of Things enables the applications of sensor-based activity recognition. However, there exist substantial challenges that could influence the performance of the recognition system in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Kaixuan Chen , Dalin Zhang , Lina Yao , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Yunhao Liu

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) primarily relied on traditional RGB cameras to achieve high-performance activity recognition. However, the challenging factors in real-world scenarios, such as insufficient lighting and rapid movements,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Shiao Wang , Xiao Wang , Bo Jiang , Lin Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian , Jin Tang

The emergence of self-supervised learning in the field of wearables-based human activity recognition (HAR) has opened up opportunities to tackle the most pressing challenges in the field, namely to exploit unlabeled data to derive reliable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Harish Haresamudram , Irfan Essa , Thomas Plötz

As a critical component of Wearable AI, IMU-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry in recent years. Although HAR performance has improved considerably in specific scenarios,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Yize Cai , Baoshen Guo , Flora Salim , Zhiqing Hong

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) is a critical research domain in activity perception. However, achieving high efficiency and long sequence recognition remains a challenge. Despite the extensive investigation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Shuangjian Li , Tao Zhu , Furong Duan , Liming Chen , Huansheng Ning , Christopher Nugent , Yaping Wan