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With the soaring adoption of in-ear wearables, the research community has started investigating suitable in-ear heart rate (HR) detection systems. HR is a key physiological marker of cardiovascular health and physical fitness. Continuous…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Kayla-Jade Butkow , Ting Dang , Andrea Ferlini , Dong Ma , Cecilia Mascolo

Human activity recognition (HAR) on smartglasses has various use cases, including health/fitness tracking and input for context-aware AI assistants. However, current approaches for egocentric activity recognition suffer from low performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Akhil Padmanabha , Saravanan Govindarajan , Hwanmun Kim , Sergio Ortiz , Rahul Rajan , Doruk Senkal , Sneha Kadetotad

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

Tracking hand poses on wrist-wearables enables rich, expressive interactions, yet remains unavailable on commercial smartwatches, as prior implementations rely on external sensors or custom hardware, limiting their real-world applicability.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Jiwan Kim , Chi-Jung Lee , Hohurn Jung , Tianhong Catherine Yu , Ruidong Zhang , Ian Oakley , Cheng Zhang

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is an attractive topic to perceive human behavior and supplying assistive services. Besides the classical inertial unit and vision-based HAR methods, new sensing technologies, such as ultrasound and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Pixi Kang , Julian Moosmann , Sizhen Bian , Michele Magno

The ubiquity of personal digital devices offers unprecedented opportunities to study human behavior. Current state-of-the-art methods quantify physical activity using 'activity counts,' a measure which overlooks specific types of physical…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Marcin Straczkiewicz , Emily J. Huang , Jukka-Pekka Onnela

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on resource constrained wearables requires models that balance accuracy against strict memory and computational budgets. State of the art lightweight architectures such as TinierHAR (34K parameters) and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Mridankan Mandal

Human activity recognition (HAR) ideally relies on data from wearable or environment-instrumented sensors sampled at regular intervals, enabling standard neural network models optimized for consistent time-series data as input. However,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-28 Mengxi Liu , Daniel Geißler , Sizhen Bian , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Social interactions play a crucial role in shaping human behavior, relationships, and societies. It encompasses various forms of communication, such as verbal conversation, non-verbal gestures, facial expressions, and body language. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alice Zhang , Callihan Bertley , Dawei Liang , Edison Thomaz

The lack of large-scale, labeled data sets impedes progress in developing robust and generalized predictive models for on-body sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR). Labeled data in human activity recognition is scarce and hard to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Hyeokhyen Kwon , Catherine Tong , Harish Haresamudram , Yan Gao , Gregory D. Abowd , Nicholas D. Lane , Thomas Ploetz

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

Human motion detection is getting considerable attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven healthcare systems. Human motion can be used to provide remote healthcare solutions for vulnerable people by identifying particular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 William Taylor , Syed Aziz Shah , Kia Dashtipour , Adnan Zahid , Qammer H. Abbasi , Muhammad Ali Imran

As a fundamental problem in ubiquitous computing and machine learning, sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has drawn extensive attention and made great progress in recent years. HAR aims to recognize human activities based on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-01 Yimu Wang , Kun Yu , Yan Wang , Hui Xue

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become a spotlight in recent scientific research because of its applications in various domains such as healthcare, athletic competitions, smart cities, and smart home. While researchers focus on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-18 Mohammadreza Heydarian , Thomas E. Doyle

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

Machine learning-based wearable human activity recognition (WHAR) models enable the development of various smart and connected community applications such as sleep pattern monitoring, medication reminders, cognitive health assessment,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-14 Avijoy Chakma , Abu Zaher Md Faridee , Indrajeet Ghosh , Nirmalya Roy

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is the identification and classification of static and dynamic human activities, which find applicability in domains like healthcare, entertainment, security, and cyber-physical systems. Traditional HAR…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-27 Nuno Paulino , Mariana Oliveira , Francisco Ribeiro , Luís Outeiro , Pedro A. Lopes , Francisco Vilarinho , Sofia Inácio , Luís M. Pessoa

Deep learning methods are successfully used in applications pertaining to ubiquitous computing, health, and well-being. Specifically, the area of human activity recognition (HAR) is primarily transformed by the convolutional and recurrent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-30 Aaqib Saeed , Tanir Ozcelebi , Johan Lukkien

In this article we present SHARP, an original approach for obtaining human activity recognition (HAR) through the use of commercial IEEE 802.11 (Wi-Fi) devices. SHARP grants the possibility to discern the activities of different persons,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-08 Francesca Meneghello , Domenico Garlisi , Nicolò Dal Fabbro , Ilenia Tinnirello , Michele Rossi