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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

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a rapidly growing field that utilizes smart devices, sensors, and algorithms to automatically classify and identify the actions of individuals within a given environment. These systems have a wide range…

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on resource-constrained wearable devices demands inference models that harmonize accuracy with computational efficiency. This paper introduces TinierHAR, an ultra-lightweight deep learning architecture that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-11 Sizhen Bian , Mengxi Liu , Vitor Fortes Rey , Daniel Geissler , Paul Lukowicz

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is critical for applications in healthcare, fitness, and IoT, but deploying accurate models on resource-constrained devices remains challenging due to high energy and memory demands. This paper demonstrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Alan T. L. Bacellar , Mugdha P. Jadhao , Shashank Nag , Priscila M. V. Lima , Felipe M. G. Franca , Lizy K. John

This article proposes a Universal Activation Function (UAF) that achieves near optimal performance in quantification, classification, and reinforcement learning (RL) problems. For any given problem, the optimization algorithms are able to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-07 Brosnan Yuen , Minh Tu Hoang , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu

Multimodal human action recognition (HAR) leverages complementary sensors for activity classification. Beyond recognition, recent advances in large language models (LLMs) enable detailed descriptions and causal reasoning, motivating new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Siyang Jiang , Mu Yuan , Xiang Ji , Bufang Yang , Zeyu Liu , Lilin Xu , Yang Li , Yuting He , Liran Dong , Wenrui Lu , Zhenyu Yan , Xiaofan Jiang , Wei Gao , Hongkai Chen , Guoliang Xing

Activation function has a significant impact on the dynamics, convergence, and performance of deep neural networks. The search for a consistent and high-performing activation function has always been a pursuit during deep learning model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Abdur Rahman , Lu He , Haifeng Wang

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors is critical for applications in healthcare, safety, and industrial production. However, variations in activity patterns, device types, and sensor placements…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Hua Yan , Heng Tan , Yi Ding , Pengfei Zhou , Vinod Namboodiri , Yu Yang

The use of accurate and reliable open-source human activity recognition (HAR) models on passively collected wrist-accelerometer data is essential in large-scale epidemiological studies that investigate the association between physical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Aidan Acquah , Shing Chan , Aiden Doherty

Human activity recognition (HAR) in ubiquitous computing has been beginning to incorporate attention into the context of deep neural networks (DNNs), in which the rich sensing data from multimodal sensors such as accelerometer and gyroscope…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-22 Wenbin Gao , Lei Zhang , Qi Teng , Jun He , Hao Wu

Activation functions play a key role in providing remarkable performance in deep neural networks, and the rectified linear unit (ReLU) is one of the most widely used activation functions. Various new activation functions and improvements on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-27 Yang Liu , Jianpeng Zhang , Chao Gao , Jinghua Qu , Lixin Ji

To fluently collaborate with people, robots need the ability to recognize human activities accurately. Although modern robots are equipped with various sensors, robust human activity recognition (HAR) still remains a challenging task for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-17 Md Mofijul Islam , Tariq Iqbal

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

The asymptotic mean squared test error and sensitivity of the Random Features Regression model (RFR) have been recently studied. We build on this work and identify in closed-form the family of Activation Functions (AFs) that minimize a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-03-28 Jianxin Wang , José Bento

The choice of activation function can have a large effect on the performance of a neural network. While there have been some attempts to hand-engineer novel activation functions, the Rectified Linear Unit (ReLU) remains the most…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Garrett Bingham , William Macke , Risto Miikkulainen

This paper presents a novel hybrid deep learning framework designed to enhance the robustness of CSI-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) within bandwidth-constrained Wi-Fi sensing environments. The core of our proposed methodology is a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-10 Alison M. Fernandes , Hermes I. Del Monego , Bruno S. Chang , Anelise Munaretto , Hélder M. Fontes , Rui Campos

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a research field that employs Machine Learning (ML) techniques to identify user activities. Recent studies have prioritized the development of HAR solutions directly executed on wearable devices, enabling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hazem Hesham Yousef Shalby , Manuel Roveri

Kolmogorov-Arnold Networks (KANs) have inspired numerous works exploring their applications across a wide range of scientific problems, with the potential to replace Multilayer Perceptrons (MLPs). While many KANs are designed using basis…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Hoang-Thang Ta , Anh Tran

Despite the widespread installation of accelerometers in almost all mobile phones and wearable devices, activity recognition using accelerometers is still immature due to the poor recognition accuracy of existing recognition methods and the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-10-26 Mohammad Abu Alsheikh , Ahmed Selim , Dusit Niyato , Linda Doyle , Shaowei Lin , Hwee-Pink Tan

Wearable computing and context awareness are the focuses of study in the field of artificial intelligence recently. One of the most appealing as well as challenging applications is the Human Activity Recognition (HAR) utilizing smart…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Mingtao Dong , Jindong Han