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Micro-Actions (MAs) are an important form of non-verbal communication in social interactions, with potential applications in human emotional analysis. However, existing methods in Micro-Action Recognition often overlook the inherent subtle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Jihao Gu , Kun Li , Fei Wang , Yanyan Wei , Zhiliang Wu , Hehe Fan , Meng Wang

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR), i.e., the ability to discover human daily activity patterns from wearable or embedded sensors, is a key enabler for many real-world applications in smart homes, personal healthcare, and urban…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-20 Saurav Jha , Martin Schiemer , Franco Zambonelli , Juan Ye

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) simply refers to the capacity of a machine to perceive human actions. HAR is a prominent application of advanced Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence techniques that utilize computer vision to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-19 Niloy Sikder , Md. Sanaullah Chowdhury , Abu Shamim Mohammad Arif , Abdullah-Al Nahid

To enable the broad adoption of wearable robotic exoskeletons in medical and industrial settings, it is crucial they can adaptively support large repertoires of movements. We propose a new human-machine interface to simultaneously drive…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Guillaume Durandau , Wolfgang Rampeltshammer , Herman van der Kooij , Massimo Sartori

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

Sim-to-real reinforcement learning (RL) for humanoid robots with high-gear ratio actuators remains challenging due to complex actuator dynamics and the absence of torque sensors. To address this, we propose a novel RL framework leveraging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Sotaro Katayama , Yuta Koda , Norio Nagatsuka , Masaya Kinoshita

Activity recognition systems that are capable of estimating human activities from wearable inertial sensors have come a long way in the past decades. Not only have state-of-the-art methods moved away from feature engineering and have fully…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Marius Bock , Alexander Hoelzemann , Michael Moeller , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Wearable sensor-based Human Action Recognition (HAR) has achieved remarkable success recently. However, the accuracy performance of wearable sensor-based HAR is still far behind the ones from the visual modalities-based system (i.e., RGB…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Jianyuan Ni , Anne H. H. Ngu , Yan Yan

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the core research areas in mobile and wearable computing. With the application of deep learning (DL) techniques such as CNN, recognizing periodic or static activities (e.g, walking, lying, cycling,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-29 Shuai Shao , Yu Guan , Xin Guan , Paolo Missier , Thomas Ploetz

Assistive devices, such as exoskeletons and prostheses, have revolutionized the field of rehabilitation and mobility assistance. Efficiently detecting transitions between different activities, such as walking, stair ascending and…

Falls represent a significant cause of injury among the elderly population. Extensive research has been devoted to the utilization of wearable IMU sensors in conjunction with machine learning techniques for fall detection. To address the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-18 Jie Tang , Bin He , Junkai Xu , Tian Tan , Zhipeng Wang , Yanmin Zhou , Shuo Jiang

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

This article presents a method to automatically detect and classify climbing activities using inertial measurement units (IMUs) attached to the wrists, feet and pelvis of the climber. The IMUs record limb acceleration and angular velocity.…

Applications · Statistics 2015-08-19 Jérémie Boulanger , Ludovic Seifert , Romain Hérault , Jean-Francois Coeurjolly

This paper presents an insole FSR (Force Sensing Resistor) to dynamically detect weight variations in an exoskeleton system. The proposed methodology is intended for tasks of lifting and lowering heavy weights with an industrial exoskeleton…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Luis A. Mateos

This paper proposes a novel data-driven approach for inertial navigation, which learns to estimate trajectories of natural human motions just from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) in every smartphone. The key observation is that human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-03 Hang Yan , Qi Shan , Yasutaka Furukawa

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

Lower extremity amputees face challenges in natural locomotion, which is partially compensated using powered assistive systems, e.g., micro-processor controlled prosthetic leg. In this paper, a radar-based perception system is proposed to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-07-09 Fady Aziz , Bassam Elmakhzangy , Christophe Maufroy , Urs Schneider , Marco F. Huber

Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition (HAR) has emerged as a promising approach for contactless sensing, leveraging channel state information (CSI) collected from wireless transceivers. While existing studies have primarily concentrated on…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-21 Amirhossein Mohammadi , Hina Tabassum

Human activity recognition (HAR) using wearable sensors has benefited much less from recent advances in Machine Learning than fields such as computer vision and natural language processing. This is to a large extent due to the lack of large…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Vitor Fortes Rey , Kamalveer Kaur Garewal , Paul Lukowicz