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Human activity recognition (HAR) in smart homes remains challenging because many daily activities exhibit similar local sensor patterns, while minimally intrusive sensing provides sparse and ambiguous observations. As a result, methods…

In this paper, we propose an LLM-Guided Exemplar Selection framework to address a key limitation in state-of-the-art Human Activity Recognition (HAR) methods: their reliance on large labeled datasets and purely geometric exemplar selection,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Elsen Ronando , Sozo Inoue

Current state-of-the-art methods for skeleton-based action recognition are supervised and rely on labels. The reliance is limiting the performance due to the challenges involved in annotation and mislabeled data. Unsupervised methods have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Jingyuan Li , Eli Shlizerman

Automated and accurate human activity recognition (HAR) using body-worn sensors enables practical and cost efficient remote monitoring of Activity of DailyLiving (ADL), which are shown to provide clinical insights across multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Maximilien Burq , Niranjan Sridhar

Group-level emotion recognition (GER) aims to identify holistic emotions within a scene involving multiple individuals. Current existed methods underestimate the importance of visual scene contextual information in modeling individual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Qing Zhu , Wangdong Guo , Qirong Mao , Xiaohua Huang , Xiuyan Shao , Wenming Zheng

Human activity recognition (HAR) with wearables is one of the serviceable technologies in ubiquitous and mobile computing applications. The sliding-window scheme is widely adopted while suffering from the multi-class windows problem. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Songpengcheng Xia , Lei Chu , Ling Pei , Jiarui Yang , Wenxian Yu , Robert C. Qiu

There has been much recent research on human activity re\-cog\-ni\-tion (HAR), due to the proliferation of wearable sensors in watches and phones, and the advances of deep learning methods, which avoid the need to manually extract features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Louis Mahon , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Measures of Activity of Daily Living (ADL) are an important indicator of overall health but difficult to measure in-clinic. Automated and accurate human activity recognition (HAR) using wrist-worn accelerometers enables practical and cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Niranjan Sridhar , Lance Myers

Deep Learning models are a standard solution for sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR), but their deployment is often limited by labeled data scarcity and models' opacity. Neuro-Symbolic AI (NeSy) provides an interesting research…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Luca Arrotta , Gabriele Civitarese , Claudio Bettini

Human action recognition refers to automatic recognizing human actions from a video clip. In reality, there often exist multiple human actions in a video stream. Such a video stream is often weakly-annotated with a set of relevant human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-07 Qian Wang , Ke Chen

Multi-task learning in text classification leverages implicit correlations among related tasks to extract common features and yield performance gains. However, most previous works treat labels of each task as independent and meaningless…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-20 Honglun Zhang , Liqiang Xiao , Wenqing Chen , Yongkun Wang , Yaohui Jin

In the many years since the inception of wearable sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR), a wide variety of methods have been introduced and evaluated for their ability to recognize activities. Substantial gains have been made since…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Harish Haresamudram , Chi Ian Tang , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz , Thomas Ploetz

Long video understanding presents challenges due to the inherent high computational complexity and redundant temporal information. An effective representation for long videos must efficiently process such redundancy while preserving…

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This paper introduces a novel model for semantic role labeling that makes use of neural sequence modeling techniques. Our approach is motivated by the observation that complex syntactic structures and related phenomena, such as nested…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-07-19 Michael Roth , Mirella Lapata

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

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) describes the machines ability to recognize human actions. Nowadays, most people on earth are health conscious, so people are more interested in tracking their daily activities using Smartphones or Smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-23 Sanku Satya Uday , Satti Thanuja Pavani , T. Jaya Lakshmi , Rohit Chivukula

Speech emotion recognition (SER), the task of identifying the expression of emotion from spoken content, is challenging due to the difficulty in extracting representations that capture emotional attributes from speech. The scarcity of…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-27 Soumya Dutta , Sriram Ganapathy

Wearables are fundamental to improving our understanding of human activities, especially for an increasing number of healthcare applications from rehabilitation to fine-grained gait analysis. Although our collective know-how to solve Human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Alireza Abedin , Mahsa Ehsanpour , Qinfeng Shi , Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

We address the problem of language-based temporal localization in untrimmed videos. Compared to temporal localization with fixed categories, this problem is more challenging as the language-based queries not only have no pre-defined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-26 Runzhou Ge , Jiyang Gao , Kan Chen , Ram Nevatia