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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems aim to understand human behaviour and assign a label to each action, attracting significant attention in computer vision due to their wide range of applications. HAR can leverage various data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Jungpil Shin , Najmul Hassan , Abu Saleh Musa Miah1 , Satoshi Nishimura

Modern wearable and mobile devices are equipped with inertial measurement units (IMUs). Human Activity Recognition (HAR) applications running on such devices use machine-learning-based, data-driven techniques that leverage such sensor data.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Alex Gn , Fan Li , S Kuniyilh , Ada Axan

Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been an active research area, owing to its applications in smart environments, assisted living, fitness, healthcare, etc. Recently, deep learning based end-to-end training has resulted in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Sourish Gunesh Dhekane , Thomas Ploetz

Privacy-preserving computer vision is an important emerging problem in machine learning and artificial intelligence. Prevalent methods tackling this problem use differential privacy (DP) or obfuscation techniques to protect the privacy of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 David Schneider , Sina Sajadmanesh , Vikash Sehwag , Saquib Sarfraz , Rainer Stiefelhagen , Lingjuan Lyu , Vivek Sharma

Human activity recognition (HAR) in wearable computing is typically based on direct processing of sensor data. Sensor readings are translated into representations, either derived through dedicated preprocessing, or integrated into…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Harish Haresamudram , Irfan Essa , Thomas Ploetz

As GUI agents increasingly rely on screenshots to perceive and operate digital environments, they may inadvertently expose sensitive information such as identities, accounts, locations, and behavioral traces. While existing benchmarks…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Yanxi Wang , Zhiling Zhang , Wenbo Zhou , Weiming Zhang , Jie Zhang , Qiannan Zhu , Yu Shi , Shuxin Zheng , Jiyan He

The use of supervised learning for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) on mobile devices leads to strong classification performances. Such an approach, however, requires large amounts of labeled data, both for the initial training of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-27 Riccardo Presotto , Sannara Ek , Gabriele Civitarese , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , Claudio Bettini

The ubiquitous availability of smartphones and smartwatches with integrated inertial measurement units (IMUs) enables straightforward capturing of human activities. For specific applications of sensor based human activity recognition (HAR),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Megha Thukral , Harish Haresamudram , Thomas Ploetz

Pre-training on massive video datasets has become essential to achieve high action recognition performance on smaller downstream datasets. However, most large-scale video datasets contain images of people and hence are accompanied with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Howard Zhong , Samarth Mishra , Donghyun Kim , SouYoung Jin , Rameswar Panda , Hilde Kuehne , Leonid Karlinsky , Venkatesh Saligrama , Aude Oliva , Rogerio Feris

Recent advances in computing have allowed for the possibility to collect large amounts of data on personal activities and private living spaces. To address the privacy concerns of users in this environment, we propose a novel framework…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-06 Aria Rezaei , Chaowei Xiao , Jie Gao , Bo Li , Sirajum Munir

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

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

Human action recognition (HAR) in videos is a fundamental research topic in computer vision. It consists mainly in understanding actions performed by humans based on a sequence of visual observations. In recent years, HAR have witnessed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-30 Soufiane Lamghari , Guillaume-Alexandre Bilodeau , Nicolas Saunier

When creating multi-channel time-series datasets for Human Activity Recognition (HAR), researchers are faced with the issue of subject selection criteria. It is unknown what physical characteristics and/or soft-biometrics, such as age,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-25 Nilah Ravi Nair , Lena Schmid , Fernando Moya Rueda , Markus Pauly , Gernot A. Fink , Christopher Reining

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with different sensing modalities requires both strong generalization across diverse users and efficient personalization for individuals. However, conventional HAR models often fail to generalize when faced…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Pixi Kang , Julian Moosmann , Mengxi Liu , Bo Zhou , Michele Magno , Paul Lukowicz , Sizhen Bian

Recent advances in large-scale video models have significantly improved video understanding across domains such as surveillance, healthcare, and entertainment. However, these models also amplify privacy risks by encoding sensitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Nazia Aslam , Abhisek Ray , Joakim Bruslund Haurum , Lukas Esterle , Kamal Nasrollahi

This paper presents a framework for privacy-preserving verification of machine learning models, focusing on models trained on sensitive data. Integrating Local Differential Privacy (LDP) with model explanations from LIME and SHAP, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Wenbiao Li , Anisa Halimi , Xiaoqian Jiang , Jaideep Vaidya , Erman Ayday

Wearable data serves various health monitoring purposes, such as determining activity states based on user behavior and providing tailored exercise recommendations. However, the individual data perception and computational capabilities of…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kongyang Chen , Dongping Zhang , Sijia Guan , Bing Mi , Jiaxing Shen , Guoqing Wang

Differentially private (DP) image synthesis aims to generate artificial images that retain the properties of sensitive images while protecting the privacy of individual images within the dataset. Despite recent advancements, we find that…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-09-01 Chen Gong , Kecen Li , Zinan Lin , Tianhao Wang