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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

We developed a ResNet-based human activity recognition (HAR) model with minimal overhead to detect gait versus non-gait activities and everyday activities (walking, running, stairs, standing, sitting, lying, sit-to-stand transitions). The…

Rehabilitation therapy for stroke patients faces a supply shortage despite the increasing demand. To address this issue, remote monitoring systems that reduce the burden on medical staff are emerging as a viable alternative. A key component…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Ye-eun Kim , Suhyeon Lim , Andrew J. Choi

There has been significant amount of research work on human activity classification relying either on Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data or data from static cameras providing a third-person view. Using only IMU data limits the variety and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-03 Yantao Lu , Senem Velipasalar

Human Action Recognition (HAR) is an interesting research area in human-computer interaction used to monitor the activities of elderly and disabled individuals affected by physical and mental health. In the recent era, skeleton-based HAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Faisal Mehmood , Enqing Chen , Touqeer Abbas , Samah M. Alzanin

Human activity recognition based on wearable sensor data has been an attractive research topic due to its application in areas such as healthcare and smart environments. In this context, many works have presented remarkable results using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Artur Jordao , Antonio C. Nazare , Jessica Sena , William Robson Schwartz

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

Current studies in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) primarily focus on the classification of activities through sensor data, while there is not much emphasis placed on recognizing the individuals performing these activities. This type of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Debashish Saha , Piyush Malik , Adrika Saha

While the widely available embedded sensors in smartphones and other wearable devices make it easier to obtain data of human activities, recognizing different types of human activities from sensor-based data remains a difficult research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber

This paper considers human activity classification for an indoor radar system. Human motions generate nonstationary radar returns which represent Doppler and micro-Doppler signals. The time-frequency (TF) analysis of micro-Doppler signals…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-02 Patrick A. Schooley , Syed A. Hamza

Transformers have excelled in natural language processing and computer vision, paving their way to sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Previous studies show that transformers outperform their counterparts exclusively when they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Clayton Souza Leite , Henry Mauranen , Aziza Zhanabatyrova , Yu Xiao

Human Activity Recognition supports applications in healthcare, manufacturing, and human-machine interaction. LiDAR point clouds offer a privacy-preserving alternative to cameras and are robust to illumination. We propose a HAR method based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Sasan Sharifipour , Constantino Álvarez Casado , Le Nguyen , Tharindu Ekanayake , Manuel Lage Cañellas , Nhi Nguyen , Miguel Bordallo López

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

In smart healthcare, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is considered to be an efficient model in pervasive computation from sensor readings. The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in the home or community helps the people in providing independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Pankaj Khatiwada , Ayan Chatterjee , Matrika Subedi

Deep neural network is an effective choice to automatically recognize human actions utilizing data from various wearable sensors. These networks automate the process of feature extraction relying completely on data. However, various noises…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-01-05 Tanvir Mahmud , A. Q. M. Sazzad Sayyed , Shaikh Anowarul Fattah , Sun-Yuan Kung

In the recent years there has been a growing interest in techniques able to automatically recognize activities performed by people. This field is known as Human Activity recognition (HAR). HAR can be crucial in monitoring the wellbeing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-02 Anna Ferrari , Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) underpins many ubiquitous and wearable computing applications, yet current models remain limited by scarce labels, sensor heterogeneity, and weak generalization across users, devices, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Sizhen Bian , Mengxi Liu , Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Thomas Ploetz , Paul Lukowicz , Siyu Yuan , Vitor Fortes Rey

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

Human activity recognition (HAR) has been playing an increasingly important role in various domains such as healthcare, security monitoring, and metaverse gaming. Though numerous HAR methods based on computer vision have been developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jianfei Yang , Shijie Tang , Yuecong Xu , Yunjiao Zhou , Lihua Xie

Human activity recognition (HAR) using wearable sensors has advanced through various machine learning paradigms, each with inherent trade-offs between performance and labeling requirements. While fully supervised techniques achieve high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber