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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) from on-body sensors is a core functionality in many AI applications: from personal health, through sports and wellness to Industry 4.0. A key problem holding up progress in wearable sensor-based HAR,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Si Zuo , Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Stephan Sigg , Paul Lukowicz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has recently witnessed advancements with Transformer-based models. Especially, ActionFormer shows us a new perspectives for HAR in the sense that this approach gives us additional outputs which detect the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Kunpeng Zhao , Asahi Miyazaki , Tsuyoshi Okita

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) is a critical research domain in activity perception. However, achieving high efficiency and long sequence recognition remains a challenge. Despite the extensive investigation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Shuangjian Li , Tao Zhu , Furong Duan , Liming Chen , Huansheng Ning , Christopher Nugent , Yaping Wan

Limited access to medical infrastructure forces elderly and vulnerable patients to rely on home-based care, often leading to neglect and poor adherence to therapeutic exercises such as yoga or physiotherapy. To address this gap, we propose…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Ramakant Kumar , Pravin Kumar

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

Healthcare monitoring is crucial, especially for the daily care of elderly individuals living alone. It can detect dangerous occurrences, such as falls, and provide timely alerts to save lives. Non-invasive millimeter wave (mmWave)…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Zhanzhong Gu , Xiangjian He , Gengfa Fang , Chengpei Xu , Feng Xia , Wenjing Jia

With the popularity and development of the wearable devices such as smartphones, human activity recognition (HAR) based on sensors has become as a key research area in human computer interaction and ubiquitous computing. The emergence of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Kun Wang , Jun He , Lei Zhang

We study the Human Activity Recognition (HAR) task, which predicts user daily activity based on time series data from wearable sensors. Recently, researchers use end-to-end Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) to extract the features and…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yuhang Li , Ruokai Yin , Hyoungseob Park , Youngeun Kim , Priyadarshini Panda

The research on human activity recognition has provided novel solutions to many applications like healthcare, sports, and user profiling. Considering the complex nature of human activities, it is still challenging even after effective and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Ranjit Kolkar , Geetha V

Wearable Human Activity Recognition (WHAR) is a prominent research area within ubiquitous computing, whose core lies in effectively modeling intra- and inter-sensor spatio-temporal relationships from multi-modal time series data. Existing…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Wang Chenglong , Zhuo Yan , Ding Wenbo , Chen Xinlei

The patterns of inhalation and exhalation contain important physiological signals that can be used to anticipate human behavior, health trends, and vital parameters. Human activity recognition (HAR) is fundamentally connected to these vital…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Ashutosh Kumar Sinha , Ayush Patel , Mitul Dudhat , Pritam Anand , Rahul Mishra

Wearable sensor based human activity recognition is a challenging problem due to difficulty in modeling spatial and temporal dependencies of sensor signals. Recognition models in closed-set assumption are forced to yield members of known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 M Tanjid Hasan Tonmoy , Saif Mahmud , A K M Mahbubur Rahman , M Ashraful Amin , Amin Ahsan Ali

There has been much recent research on human activity re\-cog\-ni\-tion (HAR), due to the proliferation of wearable sensors in watches and phones, and the advances of deep learning methods, which avoid the need to manually extract features…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Louis Mahon , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Human activity recognition (HAR) with wearables is one of the serviceable technologies in ubiquitous and mobile computing applications. The sliding-window scheme is widely adopted while suffering from the multi-class windows problem. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Songpengcheng Xia , Lei Chu , Ling Pei , Jiarui Yang , Wenxian Yu , Robert C. Qiu

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

Processing sequential multi-sensor data becomes important in many tasks due to the dramatic increase in the availability of sensors that can acquire sequential data over time. Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the fields which are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Zeyd Boukhers , Danniene Wete , Steffen Staab

Human activity recognition based on wearable sensor data has been an attractive research topic due to its application in areas such as healthcare and smart environments. In this context, many works have presented remarkable results using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Artur Jordao , Antonio C. Nazare , Jessica Sena , William Robson Schwartz

Wearable data serves various health monitoring purposes, such as determining activity states based on user behavior and providing tailored exercise recommendations. However, the individual data perception and computational capabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kongyang Chen , Dongping Zhang , Sijia Guan , Bing Mi , Jiaxing Shen , Guoqing Wang

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) from wearable sensor data identifies movements or activities in unconstrained environments. HAR is a challenging problem as it presents great variability across subjects. Obtaining large amounts of labelled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Arttu Lämsä , Jaakko Tervonen , Jussi Liikka , Constantino Álvarez Casado , Miguel Bordallo López