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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) with wearables is promising research that can be widely adopted in many smart healthcare applications. In recent years, the deep learning-based HAR models have achieved impressive recognition performance.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Songpengcheng Xia , Lei Chu , Ling Pei , Wenxian Yu , Robert C. Qiu

While computers play an increasingly important role in every aspect of our lives, their inability to understand what tasks users are physically performing makes a wide range of applications, including health monitoring and context-specific…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Arvind Seshan

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

Radio-Frequency (RF) based device-free Human Activity Recognition (HAR) rises as a promising solution for many applications. However, device-free (or contactless) sensing is often more sensitive to environment changes than device-based (or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-11-09 Shuya Ding , Zhe Chen , Tianyue Zheng , Jun Luo

Conventional human activity recognition (HAR) relies on classifiers trained to predict discrete activity classes, inherently limiting recognition to activities explicitly present in the training set. Such classifiers would invariably fail,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz

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

The development of robust, generalized models in human activity recognition (HAR) has been hindered by the scarcity of large-scale, labeled data sets. Recent work has shown that virtual IMU data extracted from videos using computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Zikang Leng , Hyeokhyen Kwon , Thomas Plötz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become one of the leading research topics of the last decade. As sensing technologies have matured and their economic costs have declined, a host of novel applications, e.g., in healthcare, industry,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Fadi Al Machot , Graziano Pravadelli , Philipp H. Kindt

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

One of the primary challenges in the field of human activity recognition (HAR) is the lack of large labeled datasets. This hinders the development of robust and generalizable models. Recently, cross modality transfer approaches have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-05 Zikang Leng , Amitrajit Bhattacharjee , Hrudhai Rajasekhar , Lizhe Zhang , Elizabeth Bruda , Hyeokhyen Kwon , Thomas Plötz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a well-studied field with research dating back to the 1980s. Over time, HAR technologies have evolved significantly from manual feature extraction, rule-based algorithms, and simple machine learning…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-07 Duc-Anh Nguyen , Nhien-An Le-Khac

Human activity recognition (HAR) has been playing an increasingly important role in various domains such as healthcare, security monitoring, and metaverse gaming. Though numerous HAR methods based on computer vision have been developed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-01 Jianfei Yang , Shijie Tang , Yuecong Xu , Yunjiao Zhou , Lihua Xie

Wearable sensor-based Human Action Recognition (HAR) has achieved remarkable success recently. However, the accuracy performance of wearable sensor-based HAR is still far behind the ones from the visual modalities-based system (i.e., RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Jianyuan Ni , Anne H. H. Ngu , Yan Yan

In smart healthcare, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is considered to be an efficient model in pervasive computation from sensor readings. The Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) in the home or community helps the people in providing independent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Pankaj Khatiwada , Ayan Chatterjee , Matrika Subedi

Wrist-worn smart devices are providing increased insights into human health, behaviour and performance through sophisticated analytics. However, battery life, device cost and sensor performance in the face of movement-related artefact…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Eoin Brophy , Willie Muehlhausen , Alan F. Smeaton , Tomas E. Ward

Human activity recognition (HAR) in ubiquitous computing has been beginning to incorporate attention into the context of deep neural networks (DNNs), in which the rich sensing data from multimodal sensors such as accelerometer and gyroscope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Wenbin Gao , Lei Zhang , Qi Teng , Jun He , Hao Wu

Human activity recognition (HAR) based on multimodal sensors has become a rapidly growing branch of biometric recognition and artificial intelligence. However, how to fully mine multimodal time series data and effectively learn accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Jialiang Wang , Haotian Wei , Yi Wang , Shu Yang , Chi Li

In the field of sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR), deep neural networks provide advanced technical support. Many studies have proven that recognition accuracy can be improved by increasing the depth or width of the network.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Xiaoyang Li , Yixuan Jiang , Junze Zhu , Haotian Tang , Dongchen Wu , Hanyu Liu , Chao Li

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