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In human activity recognition (HAR), activity labels have typically been encoded in one-hot format, which has a recent shift towards using textual representations to provide contextual knowledge. Here, we argue that HAR should be anchored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Shuheng Li , Jiayun Zhang , Xiaohan Fu , Xiyuan Zhang , Jingbo Shang , Rajesh K. Gupta

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become a spotlight in recent scientific research because of its applications in various domains such as healthcare, athletic competitions, smart cities, and smart home. While researchers focus on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Mohammadreza Heydarian , Thomas E. Doyle

Human Action Recognition (HAR), one of the most important tasks in computer vision, has developed rapidly in the past decade and has a wide range of applications in health monitoring, intelligent surveillance, virtual reality, human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Zhou Shuchang

Human Action Recognition (HAR) aims to understand human behavior and assign a label to each action. It has a wide range of applications, and therefore has been attracting increasing attention in the field of computer vision. Human actions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Zehua Sun , Qiuhong Ke , Hossein Rahmani , Mohammed Bennamoun , Gang Wang , Jun Liu

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on resource constrained wearables requires models that balance accuracy against strict memory and computational budgets. State of the art lightweight architectures such as TinierHAR (34K parameters) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mridankan Mandal

Recognizing human activities from multi-channel time series data collected from wearable sensors is ever more practical. However, in real-world conditions, coherent activities and body movements could happen at the same time, like moving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Liming Zhang

Continual learning, also known as lifelong learning, is an emerging research topic that has been attracting increasing interest in the field of machine learning. With human activity recognition (HAR) playing a key role in enabling numerous…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Rebecca Adaimi , Edison Thomaz

Wearable sensors have permeated into people's lives, ushering impactful applications in interactive systems and activity recognition. However, practitioners face significant obstacles when dealing with sensing heterogeneities, requiring…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Rebecca Adaimi , Abdelkareem Bedri , Jun Gong , Richard Kang , Joanna Arreaza-Taylor , Gerri-Michelle Pascual , Michael Ralph , Gierad Laput

Musculoskeletal injuries during military training significantly impact readiness, making prevention through activity monitoring crucial. While Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable devices offers promising solutions, it faces…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Barak Gahtan , Shany Funk , Einat Kodesh , Itay Ketko , Tsvi Kuflik , Alex M. Bronstein

Wearable biosensors can enable continuous human data capture, facilitating development of real-world Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) systems. However, a lack of standardized libraries and implementations adds extraneous complexity to HRI…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Wonse Jo , Robert Wilson , Jaeeun Kim , Steve McGuire , Byung-Cheol Min

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a relevant inference task in many mobile applications. State-of-the-art HAR at the edge is typically achieved with lightweight machine learning models such as decision trees and Random Forests (RFs),…

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

Ambient computing is gaining popularity as a major technological advancement for the future. The modern era has witnessed a surge in the advancement in healthcare systems, with viable radio frequency solutions proposed for remote and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Muhammad Zakir Khan , Jawad Ahmad , Wadii Boulila , Matthew Broadbent , Syed Aziz Shah , Anis Koubaa , Qammer H. Abbasi

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

The combination of increased life expectancy and falling birth rates is resulting in an aging population. Wearable Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (WSHAR) emerges as a promising assistive technology to support the daily lives of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Jianyuan Ni , Hao Tang , Syed Tousiful Haque , Yan Yan , Anne H. H. Ngu

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable sensor data has become a central task in mobile computing, healthcare, and human-computer interaction. Despite the success of traditional deep learning models such as CNNs and RNNs, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yunbo Liu , Xukui Qin , Yifan Gao , Xiang Li , Chengwei Feng

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

Wearable devices such as smartwatches are becoming increasingly popular tools for objectively monitoring physical activity in free-living conditions. To date, research has primarily focused on the purely supervised task of human activity…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-26 Dimitris Spathis , Ignacio Perez-Pozuelo , Soren Brage , Nicholas J. Wareham , Cecilia Mascolo

Wearable devices have strict power and memory limitations. As a result, there is a need to optimize the power consumption on those devices without sacrificing the accuracy. This paper presents AdaSense: a sensing, feature extraction and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-11 Marina Neseem , Jon Nelson , Sherief Reda

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with wearable sensors is essential for applications in healthcare, fitness, and human-computer interaction. Bio-impedance sensing offers unique advantages for fine-grained motion capture but remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Mengxi Liu , Deepika Gurung , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz