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The rising popularity of computational workflows is driven by the need for repetitive and scalable data processing, sharing of processing know-how, and transparent methods. As both combined records of analysis and descriptions of processing…

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a crucial technology for many applications such as smart homes, surveillance, human assistance and health care. This technology utilises pattern recognition and can contribute to the development of…

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

Source-free test-time adaptation (TTA) is appealing for mobile and wearable sensing because it enables on-device personalization from unlabeled test streams without centralizing private data. However, sensor-based human activity recognition…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Changyu Li , Lu Wang , Ming Lei , Jiashen Liu , Yichen Zhang , Kaishun Wu , Fei Luo

In human activity recognition (HAR), activity labels have typically been encoded in one-hot format, which has a recent shift towards using textual representations to provide contextual knowledge. Here, we argue that HAR should be anchored…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-20 Shuheng Li , Jiayun Zhang , Xiaohan Fu , Xiyuan Zhang , Jingbo Shang , Rajesh K. Gupta

Human activity recognition (HAR) is essential in healthcare, elder care, security, and human-computer interaction. The use of precise sensor data to identify activities passively and continuously makes HAR accessible and ubiquitous.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Argha Sen , Anirban Das , Swadhin Pradhan , Sandip Chakraborty

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a significant role in the everyday life of people because of its ability to learn extensive high-level information about human activity from wearable or stationary devices. A substantial amount of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-09 Md. Milon Islam , Sheikh Nooruddin , Fakhri Karray , Ghulam Muhammad

Human activity recognition (HAR) will be an essential function of various emerging applications. However, HAR typically encounters challenges related to modality limitations and label scarcity, leading to an application gap between current…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-03 Lilin Xu , Chaojie Gu , Rui Tan , Shibo He , Jiming Chen

Advances in deep learning for human activity recognition have been relatively limited due to the lack of large labelled datasets. In this study, we leverage self-supervised learning techniques on the UK-Biobank activity tracker dataset--the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-21 Hang Yuan , Shing Chan , Andrew P. Creagh , Catherine Tong , Aidan Acquah , David A. Clifton , Aiden Doherty

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has emerged as a principal research area and is utilized in a variety of applications. Recently, deep learning-based methods have achieved significant improvement in the HAR field with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Sungho Suh , Vitor Fortes Rey , Paul Lukowicz

Quite a few people in the world have to stay under permanent surveillance for health reasons; they include diabetic people or people with some other chronic conditions, the elderly and the disabled.These groups may face heightened risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Anna Nedorubova , Alena Kadyrova , Aleksey Khlyupin

Efficient querying and retrieval of healthcare data is posing a critical challenge today with numerous connected devices continuously generating petabytes of images, text, and internet of things (IoT) sensor data. One approach to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Sazia Mahfuz , Farhana Zulkernine

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been a research focus in the field of ubiquitous and mobile computing for years. In recent years, many deep models have been applied to HAR problems. However, deep learning methods…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-16 Yujiao Hao , Boyu Wang , Rong Zheng

This paper presents the SPARE C++ library, an open source software tool conceived to build pattern recognition and soft computing systems. The library follows the requirement of the generality: most of the implemented algorithms are able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-02-23 Lorenzo Livi , Guido Del Vescovo , Antonello Rizzi , Fabio Massimo Frattale Mascioli

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a core task in pervasive computing systems, where models must operate under strict computational constraints while remaining robust to heterogeneous and evolving deployment conditions. Recent advances…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Aleksandr Bredikhin , Philippe Lalanda , German Vega

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a critical role in numerous applications, including healthcare monitoring, fitness tracking, and smart environments. Traditional deep learning (DL) approaches, while effective, often require extensive…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Mohammad Alikhani

Advances in embedded systems have enabled integration of many lightweight sensory devices within our daily life. In particular, this trend has given rise to continuous expansion of wearable sensors in a broad range of applications from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-09 Mahdi Pedram , Seyed Ali Rokni , Marjan Nourollahi , Houman Homayoun , Hassan Ghasemzadeh

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has been a popular research field due to the widespread of devices with sensors and computational power (e.g., smartphones and smartwatches). Applications for HAR systems have been extensively researched in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-28 Paulo J. S. Ferreira , João Mendes Moreira , João M. P. Cardoso

Wearable IMU-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) relies heavily on Deep Neural Networks (DNNs), which are burdened by immense computational and buffering demands. Their power-hungry floating-point operations and rigid requirement to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Naichuan Zheng , Hailun Xia , Zepeng Sun , Weiyi Li , Yinzhe Zhou

The success of modern machine learning hinges on access to high-quality training data. In many real-world scenarios, such as acquiring data from public repositories or sharing across institutions, data is naturally organized into discrete…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Xiaona Zhou , Yingyan Zeng , Ran Jin , Ismini Lourentzou

Smartphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, and ad-hoc wearable devices are being increasingly used to monitor human activities. Data acquired by the hosted sensors are usually processed by machine-learning-based algorithms to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano