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The primary objective of human activity recognition (HAR) is to infer ongoing human actions from sensor data, a task that finds broad applications in health monitoring, safety protection, and sports analysis. Despite proliferating research,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Hang Xiao , Ying Yu , Jiarui Li , Zhifan Yang , Haotian Tang , Hanyu Liu , Chao Li

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on inertial data is an increasingly diffused task on embedded devices, from smartphones to ultra low-power sensors. Due to the high computational complexity of deep learning models, most embedded HAR…

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems aim to understand human behaviour and assign a label to each action, attracting significant attention in computer vision due to their wide range of applications. HAR can leverage various data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jungpil Shin , Najmul Hassan , Abu Saleh Musa Miah1 , Satoshi Nishimura

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is crucial in ubiquitous computing, analysing behaviours through multi-dimensional observations. Despite research progress, HAR confronts challenges, particularly in data distribution…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-05 Xiaozhou Ye , Kouichi Sakurai , Nirmal Nair , Kevin I-Kai Wang

We propose a text-to-IMU (inertial measurement unit) motion-synthesis framework to obtain realistic IMU data by fine-tuning a pretrained diffusion model with an acceleration-based second-order loss (L_acc). L_acc enforces consistency in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Lars Ole Häusler , Lena Uhlenberg , Göran Köber , Diyora Salimova , Oliver Amft

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a challenging problem that needs advanced solutions than using handcrafted features to achieve a desirable performance. Deep learning has been proposed as a solution to obtain more accurate HAR systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-08 Hamed Damirchi , Rooholla Khorrambakht , Hamid Taghirad

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

Home-based physical therapies are effective if the prescribed exercises are correctly executed and patients adhere to these routines. This is specially important for older adults who can easily forget the guidelines from therapists.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-24 Sara García-de-Villa , David Casillas-Pérez , Ana Jiménez-Martín , Juan Jesús García-Domínguez

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

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

Synthetic simulation data and real-world human data provide scalable alternatives to circumvent the prohibitive costs of robot data collection. However, these sources suffer from the sim-to-real visual gap and the human-to-robot embodiment…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Kaipeng Fang , Weiqing Liang , Yuyang Li , Ji Zhang , Pengpeng Zeng , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Heng Tao Shen

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) 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

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a very active research field. Recently, deep learning techniques are being exploited to recognize human activities from inertial signals. However, to compute accurate and reliable deep learning models, a…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Anna Ferrari , Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano

Data augmentation is a widely used technique in classification to increase data used in training. It improves generalization and reduces amount of annotated human activity data needed for training which reduces labour and time needed with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-07 Sandeep Ramachandra , Alexander Hoelzemann , Kristof Van Laerhoven

The use of a wide range of computer vision solutions, and more recently high-end Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) have become increasingly popular for assessing human physical activity in clinical and research settings. Nevertheless, to…

Multimodal fusion frameworks for Human Action Recognition (HAR) using depth and inertial sensor data have been proposed over the years. In most of the existing works, fusion is performed at a single level (feature level or decision level),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Zeeshan Ahmad , Naimul Khan

The research of machine learning (ML) algorithms for human activity recognition (HAR) has made significant progress with publicly available datasets. However, most research prioritizes statistical metrics over examining negative sample…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Daniel Geissler , Dominique Nshimyimana , Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

In the last decade, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become a vibrant research area, especially due to the spread of electronic devices such as smartphones, smartwatches and video cameras present in our daily lives. In addition, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Florenc Demrozi , Graziano Pravadelli , Azra Bihorac , Parisa Rashidi

Wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) provide a cost-effective approach to assessing human movement in clinical and everyday environments. However, developing the associated classification models for robust assessment of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-10 Andreas Spilz , Heiko Oppel , Jochen Werner , Kathrin Stucke-Straub , Felix Capanni , Michael Munz