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With each sensing modality exhibiting inherent strengths and limitations, multi-modal approaches for wearable Human Activity Recognition (HAR) are becoming increasingly relevant -- particularly for recognizing Activities of Daily Living…

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Sensor data streams from wearable devices and smart environments are widely studied in areas like human activity recognition (HAR), person identification, or health monitoring. However, most of the previous works in activity and sensor…

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Wrist-worn smart devices are providing increased insights into human health, behaviour and performance through sophisticated analytics. However, battery life, device cost and sensor performance in the face of movement-related artefact…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-02 Eoin Brophy , Willie Muehlhausen , Alan F. Smeaton , Tomas E. Ward

Wearable sensor based human activity recognition is a challenging problem due to difficulty in modeling spatial and temporal dependencies of sensor signals. Recognition models in closed-set assumption are forced to yield members of known…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 M Tanjid Hasan Tonmoy , Saif Mahmud , A K M Mahbubur Rahman , M Ashraful Amin , Amin Ahsan Ali

Human activity recognition based on wearable sensor data has been an attractive research topic due to its application in areas such as healthcare and smart environments. In this context, many works have presented remarkable results using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-04 Artur Jordao , Antonio C. Nazare , Jessica Sena , William Robson Schwartz

Recently, transfer subspace learning based approaches have shown to be a valid alternative to unsupervised subspace clustering and temporal data clustering for human motion segmentation (HMS). These approaches leverage prior knowledge from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-30 Mariella Dimiccoli , Lluís Garrido , Guillem Rodriguez-Corominas , Herwig Wendt

Quite a few people in the world have to stay under permanent surveillance for health reasons; they include diabetic people or people with some other chronic conditions, the elderly and the disabled.These groups may face heightened risk of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-30 Anna Nedorubova , Alena Kadyrova , Aleksey Khlyupin

Human activity recognition (HAR) with deep learning models relies on large amounts of labeled data, often challenging to obtain due to associated cost, time, and labor. Self-supervised learning (SSL) has emerged as an effective approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Dominique Nshimyimana , Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Bo Zhou , Paul Lukowicz

Unsupervised user adaptation aligns the feature distributions of the data from training users and the new user, so a well-trained wearable human activity recognition (WHAR) model can be well adapted to the new user. With the development of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-28 Ling Chen , Yi Zhang , Shenghuan Miao , Sirou Zhu , Rong Hu , Liangying Peng , Mingqi Lv

The prevalence of wearable sensors (e.g., smart wristband) is creating unprecedented opportunities to not only inform health and wellness states of individuals, but also assess and infer personal attributes, including demographic and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-29 Xian Wu , Chao Huang , Pablo Roblesgranda , Nitesh Chawla

Physical activity and sleep play a major role in the prevention and management of many chronic conditions. It is not a trivial task to understand their impact on chronic conditions. Currently, data from electronic health records (EHRs),…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-29 Karan Aggarwal , Shafiq Joty , Luis F. Luque , Jaideep Srivastava

Mobile and wearable devices have enabled numerous applications, including activity tracking, wellness monitoring, and human--computer interaction, that measure and improve our daily lives. Many of these applications are made possible by…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Shibo Zhang , Yaxuan Li , Shen Zhang , Farzad Shahabi , Stephen Xia , Yu Deng , Nabil Alshurafa

Batteryless or so called passive wearables are providing new and innovative methods for human activity recognition (HAR), especially in healthcare applications for older people. Passive sensors are low cost, lightweight, unobtrusive and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-06-07 Alireza Abedin , S. Hamid Rezatofighi , Qinfeng Shi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

Human activity recognition (HAR) in ubiquitous computing is beginning to adopt deep learning to substitute for well-established analysis techniques that rely on hand-crafted feature extraction and classification techniques. From these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-02 Nils Y. Hammerla , Shane Halloran , Thomas Ploetz

Wearable HAR has improved steadily, but most progress still relies on closed-set classification, which limits real-world use. In practice, human activity is open-ended, unscripted, personalized, and often compositional, unfolding as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Lala Shakti Swarup Ray , Mengxi Liu , Alcina Pinto , Deepika Gurung , Daniel Geissler , Paul Lukowoicz , Bo Zhou

In the many years since the inception of wearable sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR), a wide variety of methods have been introduced and evaluated for their ability to recognize activities. Substantial gains have been made since…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-06 Harish Haresamudram , Chi Ian Tang , Sungho Suh , Paul Lukowicz , Thomas Ploetz

WiFi-based human activity recognition (HAR) holds significant application potential across various fields. To handle dynamic environments where new activities are continuously introduced, WiFi-based HAR systems must adapt by learning new…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-26 Rong Li , Tao Deng , Siwei Feng , Mingjie Sun , Juncheng Jia

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) requires to predict the action of a person based on sensor-generated time series data. HAR has attracted major interest in the past few years, thanks to the large number of applications enabled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Davide Buffelli , Fabio Vandin

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 combination of increased life expectancy and falling birth rates is resulting in an aging population. Wearable Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (WSHAR) emerges as a promising assistive technology to support the daily lives of…

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