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As of today, state-of-the-art activity recognition from wearable sensors relies on algorithms being trained to classify fixed windows of data. In contrast, video-based Human Activity Recognition, known as Temporal Action Localization (TAL),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Marius Bock , Michael Moeller , Kristof Van Laerhoven

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

Synthetic data offers a compelling path to scalable pretraining when real-world data is scarce, but models pretrained on synthetic data often fail to transfer reliably to deployment settings. We study this problem in full-body human motion,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Firas Darwish , George Nicholson , Aiden Doherty , Hang Yuan

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a pivotal component of robot perception for physical Human Robot Interaction (pHRI) tasks. In construction robotics, it is vital that robots have an accurate and robust perception of worker activities.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Mani Amani , Reza Akhavian

Wearable sensor devices, which offer the advantage of recording daily objects used by a person while performing an activity, enable the feasibility of unsupervised Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Unfortunately, previous unsupervised…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Qingxin Xia , Takuya Maekawa , Takahiro Hara

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

In a human-centered intelligent manufacturing system, sensing and understanding of the worker's activity are the primary tasks. In this paper, we propose a novel multi-modal approach for worker activity recognition by leveraging information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-22 Wenjin Tao , Ming C. Leu , Zhaozheng Yin

Human activities within smart infrastructures generate a vast amount of IMU data from the wearables worn by individuals. Many existing studies rely on such sensory data for human activity recognition (HAR); however, one of the major…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Soumyajit Chatterjee , Arun Singh , Bivas Mitra , Sandip Chakraborty

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the essential building blocks of so many applications like security, monitoring, the internet of things and human-robot interaction. The research community has developed various methodologies to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Farhad Nazari , Navid Mohajer , Darius Nahavandi , Abbas Khosravi , Saeid Nahavandi

Advanced wearable sensor devices have enabled the recording of vast amounts of movement data from individuals regarding their physical activities. This data offers valuable insights that enhance our understanding of how physical activities…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Thomas Peroutka , Ilir Murturi , Praveen Kumar Donta , Schahram Dustdar

Multimodal human action recognition (HAR) leverages complementary sensors for activity classification. Beyond recognition, recent advances in large language models (LLMs) enable detailed descriptions and causal reasoning, motivating new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Siyang Jiang , Mu Yuan , Xiang Ji , Bufang Yang , Zeyu Liu , Lilin Xu , Yang Li , Yuting He , Liran Dong , Wenrui Lu , Zhenyu Yan , Xiaofan Jiang , Wei Gao , Hongkai Chen , Guoliang Xing

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

Through-the-Wall radar (TWR) human activity recognition (HAR) is a technology that uses low-frequency ultra-wideband (UWB) signal to detect and analyze indoor human motion. However, the high dependence of existing end-to-end recognition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-11 Weicheng Gao , Xiaodong Qu , Xiaopeng Yang

Unsupervised user adaptation aligns the feature distributions of the data from training users and the new user, so a well-trained wearable human activity recognition (WHAR) model can be well adapted to the new user. With the development of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Ling Chen , Yi Zhang , Shenghuan Miao , Sirou Zhu , Rong Hu , Liangying Peng , Mingqi Lv

Various health-care applications such as assisted living, fall detection etc., require modeling of user behavior through Human Activity Recognition (HAR). HAR using mobile- and wearable-based deep learning algorithms have been on the rise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-04 Gautham Krishna Gudur , Prahalathan Sundaramoorthy , Venkatesh Umaashankar

We present a new adversarial deep learning framework for the problem of human activity recognition (HAR) using inertial sensors worn by people. Our framework incorporates a novel adversarial activity-based discrimination task that addresses…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-19 Francisco M. Calatrava-Nicolás , Shoko Miyauchi , Oscar Martinez Mozos

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…

Human activity recognition (HAR) in Internet of Things (IoT) environments must cope with heterogeneous sensor settings that vary across datasets, devices, body locations, sensing modalities, and channel compositions. This heterogeneity…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Tatsuhito Hasegawa

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using on-body devices identifies specific human actions in unconstrained environments. HAR is challenging due to the inter and intra-variance of human movements; moreover, annotated datasets from on-body…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-05 Shrutarv Awasthi , Fernando Moya Rueda , Gernot A. Fink

We address the well-known wearable activity recognition problem of having to work with sensors that are non-optimal in terms of information they provide but have to be used due to wearability/usability concerns (e.g. the need to work with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz