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In high-stake environments like emergency response or elder care, the integration of large language model (LLM), revolutionize risk assessment, resource allocation, and emergency responses in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Syed Mhamudul Hasan

Several techniques have been proposed to address the problem of recognizing activities of daily living from signals. Deep learning techniques applied to inertial signals have proven to be effective, achieving significant classification…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-21 Hamza Amrani , Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano

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

The study explores a hybrid centralized-federated approach for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using a Transformer-based architecture. With the increasing ubiquity of edge devices, such as smartphones and wearables, a significant amount of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-27 Wandemberg Gibaut , Alexandre Osorio , Amparo Munoz , Sildolfo F. G. Neto , Fabio Grassiotto

As generative AI continues to evolve, Vision Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as promising tools in various healthcare applications. One area that remains relatively underexplored is their use in human activity recognition (HAR) for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Abderrazek Abid , Thanh-Cong Ho , Fakhri Karray

The astonishing success of Large Language Models (LLMs) in Natural Language Processing (NLP) has spurred their use in many application domains beyond text analysis, including wearable sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR). In such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Harish Haresamudram , Hrudhai Rajasekhar , Nikhil Murlidhar Shanbhogue , Thomas Ploetz

Wearable-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a key task in human-centric machine learning due to its fundamental understanding of human behaviours. Due to the dynamic nature of human behaviours, continual learning promises HAR systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Chi Ian Tang , Lorena Qendro , Dimitris Spathis , Fahim Kawsar , Akhil Mathur , Cecilia Mascolo

Deep learning methods are successfully used in applications pertaining to ubiquitous computing, health, and well-being. Specifically, the area of human activity recognition (HAR) is primarily transformed by the convolutional and recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi , Johan Lukkien

Accelerometer-based (and by extension other inertial sensors) research for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a dead-end. This sensor does not offer enough information for us to progress in the core domain of HAR - to recognize everyday…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Catherine Tong , Shyam A. Tailor , Nicholas D. Lane

The main streams of human activity recognition (HAR) algorithms are developed based on RGB cameras which are suffered from illumination, fast motion, privacy-preserving, and large energy consumption. Meanwhile, the biologically inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Xiao Wang , Zongzhen Wu , Bo Jiang , Zhimin Bao , Lin Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the fundamental building blocks of human assistive devices like orthoses and exoskeletons. There are different approaches to HAR depending on the application. Numerous studies have been focused on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Farhad Nazari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer , Abbas Khosravi

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a time series classification task that focuses on identifying the motion patterns from human sensor readings. Adequate data is essential but a major bottleneck for training a generalizable HAR model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Xin Qin , Jindong Wang , Shuo Ma , Wang Lu , Yongchun Zhu , Xing Xie , Yiqiang Chen

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on resource-constrained wearable devices demands inference models that harmonize accuracy with computational efficiency. This paper introduces TinierHAR, an ultra-lightweight deep learning architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Sizhen Bian , Mengxi Liu , Vitor Fortes Rey , Daniel Geissler , Paul Lukowicz

Human activity recognition has gained importance in recent years due to its applications in various fields such as health, security and surveillance, entertainment, and intelligent environments. A significant amount of work has been done on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Zawar Hussain , Michael Sheng , Wei Emma Zhang

Human activity recognition requires the efforts to build a generalizable model using the training datasets with the hope to achieve good performance in test datasets. However, in real applications, the training and testing datasets may have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Xin Qin , Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Wang Lu , Xinlong Jiang

It is expensive and time-consuming to collect sufficient labeled data to build human activity recognition (HAR) models. Training on existing data often makes the model biased towards the distribution of the training data, thus the model…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Wang Lu , Jindong Wang , Yiqiang Chen , Sinno Jialin Pan , Chunyu Hu , Xin Qin

Human activity recognition (HAR) research has increased in recent years due to its applications in mobile health monitoring, activity recognition, and patient rehabilitation. The typical approach is training a HAR classifier offline with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-24 Sizhe An , Ganapati Bhat , Suat Gumussoy , Umit Ogras

User dependence remains one of the most difficult general problems in Human Activity Recognition (HAR), in particular when using wearable sensors. This is due to the huge variability of the way different people execute even the simplest…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-26 Sungho Suh , Vitor Fortes Rey , Paul Lukowicz

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

While traditional feature engineering for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) involves a trial-anderror process, deep learning has emerged as a preferred method for high-level representations of sensor-based human activities. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Haoran Duan , Shidong Wang , Varun Ojha , Shizheng Wang , Yawen Huang , Yang Long , Rajiv Ranjan , Yefeng Zheng