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Object manipulation actions represent an important share of the Activities of Daily Living (ADLs). In this work, we study how to enable service robots to use human multi-modal data to understand object manipulation actions, and how they can…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Bahareh Abbasi , Ehsan Noohi , Sina Parastegari , Milos Zefran

The current dominated wearable body motion sensor is IMU. This work presented an alternative wearable motion-sensing approach: human body capacitance (HBC, also commonly defined as body-area electric field). While being less robust in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-27 Sizhen Bian , Vitor Fortes Rey , Siyu Yuan , Paul Lukowicz

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

The field of sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) mainly uses posture, motion and context data of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) to identify daily activities. Despite the advancements in learning-based methods, it is challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ye Zhang , Longguang Wang , Qing Gao , Chaocan Xiang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yulan Guo

In the human activity recognition research area, prior studies predominantly concentrate on leveraging advanced algorithms on public datasets to enhance recognition performance, little attention has been paid to executing real-time kitchen…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-11 Mengxi Liu , Sungho Suh , Juan Felipe Vargas , Bo Zhou , Agnes Grünerbl , Paul Lukowicz

AR smart glasses need continuous behavioral context to offer proactive assistance, yet their most practical always-on sensor, the head-mounted Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU), detects only motion primitives such as walking or standing. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Chung-Ta Huang , Leopold Das , Jeffrey Zhou , Faizaan Siddique , Julia Seungjoo Baek , Serena Liu , Andrew Rusli , Todd Y. Zhou , Freddy Yu , Sinclair Hansen , Ziling Hu , Arnav Sharma , Mengyu Wang

Multimodal sensors provide complementary information to develop accurate machine-learning methods for human activity recognition (HAR), but introduce significantly higher computational load, which reduces efficiency. This paper proposes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-13 Ziqi Gao , Yuntao Wang , Jianguo Chen , Junliang Xing , Shwetak Patel , Xin Liu , Yuanchun Shi

Wearable sensors such as Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) are often used to assess the performance of human exercise. Common approaches use handcrafted features based on domain expertise or automatically extracted features using time…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ashish Singh , Antonio Bevilacqua , Timilehin B. Aderinola , Thach Le Nguyen , Darragh Whelan , Martin O'Reilly , Brian Caulfield , Georgiana Ifrim

Despite the widespread integration of ambient light sensors (ALS) in smart devices commonly used for screen brightness adaptation, their application in human activity recognition (HAR), primarily through body-worn ALS, is largely…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-23 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Daniel Geißler , Mengxi Liu , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

This work presents a wearable human activity recognition (HAR) system that performs real-time inference directly inside a shank-mounted inertial measurement unit (IMU) to support low-latency control of a lower-limb exoskeleton. Unlike…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Mohammadsaleh Razmi , Iman Shojaei

Wearable computing and context awareness are the focuses of study in the field of artificial intelligence recently. One of the most appealing as well as challenging applications is the Human Activity Recognition (HAR) utilizing smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Mingtao Dong , Jindong Han

As a fundamental problem in ubiquitous computing and machine learning, sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has drawn extensive attention and made great progress in recent years. HAR aims to recognize human activities based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Yimu Wang , Kun Yu , Yan Wang , Hui Xue

Mobile and wearable devices have enabled numerous applications, including activity tracking, wellness monitoring, and human--computer interaction, that measure and improve our daily lives. Many of these applications are made possible by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shibo Zhang , Yaxuan Li , Shen Zhang , Farzad Shahabi , Stephen Xia , Yu Deng , Nabil Alshurafa

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

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

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

Upsurging abnormal activities in crowded locations such as airports, train stations, bus stops, shopping malls, etc., urges the necessity for an intelligent surveillance system. An intelligent surveillance system can differentiate between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Shahriar Jahan , Roknuzzaman , Md Robiul Islam

Human activity recognition, facilitated by smart devices, has recently garnered significant attention. Deep learning algorithms have become pivotal in daily activities, sports, and healthcare. Nevertheless, addressing the challenge of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Nazanin Sedaghati , Masoud Kargar , Sina Abbaskhani

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

The proliferation of IoT and mobile devices equipped with heterogeneous sensors has enabled new applications that rely on the fusion of time-series data generated by multiple sensors with different modalities. While there are promising deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Sanju Xaviar , Xin Yang , Omid Ardakanian