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Wearable Human Activity Recognition (WHAR) is a prominent research area within ubiquitous computing. Multi-sensor synchronous measurement has proven to be more effective for WHAR than using a single sensor. However, existing WHAR methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Haoyu Xie , Haoxuan Li , Chunyuan Zheng , Haonan Yuan , Guorui Liao , Jun Liao , Li Liu

Human activity recognition (HAR) is an essential research field that has been used in different applications including home and workplace automation, security and surveillance as well as healthcare. Starting from conventional machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Rebeen Ali Hamad , Wai Lok Woo , Bo Wei , Longzhi Yang

Most recent work on vision-based human activity recognition (HAR) focuses on designing complex deep learning models for the task. In so doing, there is a requirement for large datasets to be collected. As acquiring and processing large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-30 Bruce X. B. Yu , Yan Liu , Keith C. C. Chan

Recognizing human activity plays a significant role in the advancements of human-interaction applications in healthcare, personal fitness, and smart devices. Many papers presented various techniques for human activity representation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Reem Abdel-Salam , Rana Mostafa , Mayada Hadhood

Research has shown the complementarity of camera- and inertial-based data for modeling human activities, yet datasets with both egocentric video and inertial-based sensor data remain scarce. In this paper, we introduce WEAR, an outdoor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Marius Bock , Hilde Kuehne , Kristof Van Laerhoven , Michael Moeller

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors is critical for applications in healthcare, safety, and industrial production. However, variations in activity patterns, device types, and sensor placements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hua Yan , Heng Tan , Yi Ding , Pengfei Zhou , Vinod Namboodiri , Yu Yang

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

As a critical component of Wearable AI, IMU-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry in recent years. Although HAR performance has improved considerably in specific scenarios,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Yize Cai , Baoshen Guo , Flora Salim , Zhiqing Hong

Human activity recognition (HAR) in wearable computing is typically based on direct processing of sensor data. Sensor readings are translated into representations, either derived through dedicated preprocessing, or integrated into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Harish Haresamudram , Irfan Essa , Thomas Ploetz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with different sensing modalities requires both strong generalization across diverse users and efficient personalization for individuals. However, conventional HAR models often fail to generalize when faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Pixi Kang , Julian Moosmann , Mengxi Liu , Bo Zhou , Michele Magno , Paul Lukowicz , Sizhen Bian

Mobile and wearable devices have enabled numerous applications, including activity tracking, wellness monitoring, and human--computer interaction, that measure and improve our daily lives. Many of these applications are made possible by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shibo Zhang , Yaxuan Li , Shen Zhang , Farzad Shahabi , Stephen Xia , Yu Deng , Nabil Alshurafa

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

Complex human activity recognition (CHAR) remains a pivotal challenge within ubiquitous computing, especially in the context of smart environments. Existing studies typically require meticulous labeling of both atomic and complex…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Yuan Sun , Navid Salami Pargoo , Taqiya Ehsan , Zhao Zhang , Jorge Ortiz

Human activity recognition (HAR) in ubiquitous computing is beginning to adopt deep learning to substitute for well-established analysis techniques that rely on hand-crafted feature extraction and classification techniques. From these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Nils Y. Hammerla , Shane Halloran , Thomas Ploetz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable and mobile sensors has gained momentum in last few years, in various fields, such as, healthcare, surveillance, education, entertainment. Nowadays, Edge Computing has emerged to reduce…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Preeti Agarwal , Mansaf Alam

Wearable HAR has improved steadily, but most progress still relies on closed-set classification, which limits real-world use. In practice, human activity is open-ended, unscripted, personalized, and often compositional, unfolding as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Mengxi Liu , Alcina Pinto , Deepika Gurung , Daniel Geissler , Paul Lukowoicz , Bo Zhou

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been an active research area, owing to its applications in smart environments, assisted living, fitness, healthcare, etc. Recently, deep learning based end-to-end training has resulted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Sourish Gunesh Dhekane , Thomas Ploetz

Human activity recognition~(HAR) has attracted significant research interest due to its applications in health monitoring and patient rehabilitation. Recent research on HAR focuses on using smartphones due to their widespread use. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Ganapati Bhat , Ranadeep Deb , Vatika Vardhan Chaurasia , Holly Shill , Umit Y. Ogras

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR), i.e., the ability to discover human daily activity patterns from wearable or embedded sensors, is a key enabler for many real-world applications in smart homes, personal healthcare, and urban…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Saurav Jha , Martin Schiemer , Franco Zambonelli , Juan Ye

The field of Human Activity Recognition (HAR) focuses on obtaining and analysing data captured from monitoring devices (e.g. sensors). There is a wide range of applications within the field; for instance, assisted living, security…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Flávia Alves , Martin Gairing , Frans A. Oliehoek , Thanh-Toan Do