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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…

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Neural networks can learn spurious correlations in the data, often leading to performance degradation for underrepresented subgroups. Studies have demonstrated that the disparity is amplified when knowledge is distilled from a complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Patrik Kenfack , Ulrich Aïvodji , Samira Ebrahimi Kahou

While traditional feature engineering for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) involves a trial-anderror process, deep learning has emerged as a preferred method for high-level representations of sensor-based human activities. However, most…

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Uncertainty estimation is critical for reliable medical image segmentation, particularly in retinal vessel analysis, where accurate predictions are essential for diagnostic applications. Deep Ensembles, where multiple networks are trained…

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Recognizing human locomotion intent and activities is important for controlling the wearable robots while walking in complex environments. However, human-robot interface signals are usually user-dependent, which causes that the classifier…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-18 Kuangen Zhang , Jiahong Chen , Jing Wang , Xinxing Chen , Yuquan Leng , Clarence W. de Silva , Chenglong Fu

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a time series classification task that focuses on identifying the motion patterns from human sensor readings. Adequate data is essential but a major bottleneck for training a generalizable HAR model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Xin Qin , Jindong Wang , Shuo Ma , Wang Lu , Yongchun Zhu , Xing Xie , Yiqiang Chen

The emergence of self-supervised learning in the field of wearables-based human activity recognition (HAR) has opened up opportunities to tackle the most pressing challenges in the field, namely to exploit unlabeled data to derive reliable…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-22 Harish Haresamudram , Irfan Essa , Thomas Plötz

Supervised Deep Learning (DL) models are currently the leading approach for sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on wearable and mobile devices. However, training them requires large amounts of labeled data whose collection is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-20 Luca Arrotta , Gabriele Civitarese , Samuele Valente , Claudio Bettini

Ensemble approaches are commonly used techniques to improving a system by combining multiple model predictions. Additionally these schemes allow the uncertainty, as well as the source of the uncertainty, to be derived for the prediction.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-16 Yassir Fathullah , Mark Gales , Andrey Malinin

Deep learning-based human activity recognition (HAR) methods have shown great promise in the applications of smart healthcare systems and wireless body sensor network (BSN). Despite their demonstrated performance in laboratory settings, the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Baichun Wei , Chunzhi Yi , Qi Zhang , Haiqi Zhu , Jianfei Zhu , Feng Jiang

Ensemble learning aims to improve generalization ability by using multiple base learners. It is well-known that to construct a good ensemble, the base learners should be accurate as well as diverse. In this paper, unlabeled data is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2010-09-28 Min-Ling Zhang , Zhi-Hua Zhou

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

Deep ensembles (DE) have emerged as a powerful approach for quantifying predictive uncertainty and distinguishing its aleatoric and epistemic components, thereby enhancing model robustness and reliability. However, their high computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Kaizheng Wang , Fabio Cuzzolin , David Moens , Hans Hallez

Ensemble knowledge distillation can extract knowledge from multiple teacher models and encode it into a single student model. Many existing methods learn and distill the student model on labeled data only. However, the teacher models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Yongfeng Huang

Most meta-learning approaches assume the existence of a very large set of labeled data available for episodic meta-learning of base knowledge. This contrasts with the more realistic continual learning paradigm in which data arrives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Kai Wang , Xialei Liu , Andy Bagdanov , Luis Herranz , Shangling Jui , Joost van de Weijer

As deep learning continues to advance, self-supervised learning has made considerable strides. It allows 2D image encoders to extract useful features for various downstream tasks, including those related to vision-based systems.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Wonjun Jo , Hyunwoo Ha , Kim Ji-Yeon , Hawook Jeong , Tae-Hyun Oh

We consider the task of training a neural network to anticipate human actions in video. This task is challenging given the complexity of video data, the stochastic nature of the future, and the limited amount of annotated training data. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-05 Vinh Tran , Yang Wang , Minh Hoai

Various health-care applications such as assisted living, fall detection, etc., require modeling of user behavior through Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Such applications demand characterization of insights from multiple…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Gautham Krishna Gudur , Satheesh K. Perepu

Our ability to exploit low-cost wearable sensing modalities for critical human behaviour and activity monitoring applications in health and wellness is reliant on supervised learning regimes; here, deep learning paradigms have proven…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-20 Alireza Abedin , Farbod Motlagh , Qinfeng Shi , Seyed Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith Chinthana Ranasinghe

We formally study how ensemble of deep learning models can improve test accuracy, and how the superior performance of ensemble can be distilled into a single model using knowledge distillation. We consider the challenging case where the…

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