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Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) underpins many ubiquitous and wearable computing applications, yet current models remain limited by scarce labels, sensor heterogeneity, and weak generalization across users, devices, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-10 Sizhen Bian , Mengxi Liu , Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Bo Zhou , Bin Guo , Zhiwen Yu , Thomas Ploetz , Paul Lukowicz , Siyu Yuan , Vitor Fortes Rey

Equivariant neural networks are a class of neural networks designed to preserve symmetries inherent in the data. In this paper, we introduce a general method for modifying a neural network to enforce equivariance, a process we refer to as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Erkao Bao , Jingcheng Lu , Linqi Song , Nathan Hart-Hodgson , William Parson , Yanheng Zhou

Human activity recognition (HAR) refers to the process of identifying human actions and activities using data collected from sensors. Neural networks, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM) networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Abeer FathAllah Brery , Ascensión Gallardo-Antolín , Israel Gonzalez-Carrasco , Mahmoud Fakhry

Despite advances in practical and multimodal fine-grained Human Activity Recognition (HAR), a system that runs entirely on smartwatches in unconstrained environments remains elusive. We present WatchHAR, an audio and inertial-based HAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-08 Taeyoung Yeon , Vasco Xu , Henry Hoffmann , Karan Ahuja

Quantum neural network architectures that have little-to-no inductive biases are known to face trainability and generalization issues. Inspired by a similar problem, recent breakthroughs in machine learning address this challenge by…

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

Unobtrusive and smart recognition of human activities using smartphones inertial sensors is an interesting topic in the field of artificial intelligence acquired tremendous popularity among researchers, especially in recent years. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Meysam Vakili , Masoumeh Rezaei

We propose a new approach to Human Activity Evaluation (HAE) in long videos using graph-based multi-task modeling. Previous works in activity evaluation either directly compute a metric using a detected skeleton or use the scene information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-03 Behnoosh Parsa , Ashis G. Banerjee

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a classification task that aims to classify human activities or predict human behavior by means of features extracted from sensors data. Typical HAR systems use wearable sensors and/or handheld and mobile…

Current human activity recognition (HAR) techniques regard activity labels as integer class IDs without explicitly modeling the semantics of class labels. We observe that different activity names often have shared structures. For example,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Xiyuan Zhang , Ranak Roy Chowdhury , Jiayun Zhang , Dezhi Hong , Rajesh K. Gupta , Jingbo Shang

The translation equivariance of convolutions can make convolutional neural networks translation equivariant or invariant. Equivariance to other transformations (e.g. rotations, affine transformations, scalings) may also be desirable as soon…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-05 Mateus Sangalli , Samy Blusseau , Santiago Velasco-Forero , Jesus Angulo

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on the sensors of mobile/wearable devices aims to detect the physical activities performed by humans in their daily lives. Although supervised learning methods are the most effective in this task,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Sannara Ek , Riccardo Presotto , Gabriele Civitarese , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , Claudio Bettini

Equivariant neural networks are designed to respect symmetries through their architecture, boosting generalization and sample efficiency when those symmetries are present in the data distribution. Real-world data, however, often departs…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-12 Andrei Manolache , Luiz F. O. Chamon , Mathias Niepert

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

Equivariant deep learning architectures exploit symmetries in learning problems to improve the sample efficiency of neural-network-based models and their ability to generalise. However, when modelling real-world data, learning problems are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-11-12 Matthew Ashman , Cristiana Diaconu , Adrian Weller , Wessel Bruinsma , Richard E. Turner

Understanding human actions in wild videos is an important task with a broad range of applications. In this paper we propose a novel approach named Hierarchical Attention Network (HAN), which enables to incorporate static spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-07-22 Yilin Wang , Suhang Wang , Jiliang Tang , Neil O'Hare , Yi Chang , Baoxin Li

The field of sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) mainly uses posture, motion and context data of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) to identify daily activities. Despite the advancements in learning-based methods, it is challenging…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ye Zhang , Longguang Wang , Qing Gao , Chaocan Xiang , Mohammed Bennamoun , Yulan Guo

The principle of equivariance to symmetry transformations enables a theoretically grounded approach to neural network architecture design. Equivariant networks have shown excellent performance and data efficiency on vision and medical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Taco S. Cohen , Maurice Weiler , Berkay Kicanaoglu , Max Welling

Human activity recognition (HAR) is an essential research field that has been used in different applications including home and workplace automation, security and surveillance as well as healthcare. Starting from conventional machine…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-15 Rebeen Ali Hamad , Wai Lok Woo , Bo Wei , Longzhi Yang

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