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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the key applications of health monitoring that requires continuous use of wearable devices to track daily activities. This paper proposes an Adaptive CNN for energy-efficient HAR (AHAR) suitable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Nafiul Rashid , Berken Utku Demirel , Mohammad Abdullah Al Faruque

Human activity recognition (HAR) from on-body sensors is a core functionality in many AI applications: from personal health, through sports and wellness to Industry 4.0. A key problem holding up progress in wearable sensor-based HAR,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-21 Si Zuo , Vitor Fortes Rey , Sungho Suh , Stephan Sigg , Paul Lukowicz

The research introduces a reproducible framework for transforming raw, heterogeneous sensor streams into aligned, semantically meaningful representations for multimodal human activity recognition. Grounded in the Carnegie Mellon University…

Applications · Statistics 2026-05-05 Yiyao Yang , Yasemin Gulbahar

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) plays a vital role in applications such as fitness tracking, smart homes, and healthcare monitoring. Traditional HAR systems often rely on single modalities, such as motion sensors or cameras, limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Asmit Bandyopadhyay , Rohit Basu , Tanmay Sen , Swagatam Das

Weakly supervised temporal action localization (WS-TAL) is a task of targeting at localizing complete action instances and categorizing them with video-level labels. Action-background ambiguity, primarily caused by background noise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Yuanpeng He , Lijian Li , Tianxiang Zhan , Wenpin Jiao , Chi-Man Pun

Voice Activity Detection (VAD) plays a key role in speech processing, often utilizing hand-crafted or neural features. This study examines the effectiveness of Mel-Frequency Cepstral Coefficients (MFCCs) and pre-trained model (PTM)…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Kumud Tripathi , Chowdam Venkata Kumar , Pankaj Wasnik

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

Wearable-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a key task in human-centric machine learning due to its fundamental understanding of human behaviours. Due to the dynamic nature of human behaviours, continual learning promises HAR systems…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Chi Ian Tang , Lorena Qendro , Dimitris Spathis , Fahim Kawsar , Akhil Mathur , Cecilia Mascolo

Human activity recognition (HAR) with wearables is one of the serviceable technologies in ubiquitous and mobile computing applications. The sliding-window scheme is widely adopted while suffering from the multi-class windows problem. As a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Songpengcheng Xia , Lei Chu , Ling Pei , Jiarui Yang , Wenxian Yu , Robert C. Qiu

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on inertial data is an increasingly diffused task on embedded devices, from smartphones to ultra low-power sensors. Due to the high computational complexity of deep learning models, most embedded HAR…

Effective feature fusion of multispectral images plays a crucial role in multi-spectral object detection. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of feature fusion using convolutional neural networks, but these methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jifeng Shen , Yifei Chen , Yue Liu , Xin Zuo , Heng Fan , Wankou Yang

Multimodal features play a key role in wearable sensor based Human Activity Recognition (HAR). Selecting the most salient features adaptively is a promising way to maximize the effectiveness of multimodal sensor data. In this regard, we…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2017-11-22 Kaixuan Chen , Lina Yao , Tao Gu , Zhiwen Yu , Xianzhi Wang , Dalin Zhang

Various types of sensors can be used for Human Activity Recognition (HAR), and each of them has different strengths and weaknesses. Sometimes a single sensor cannot fully observe the user's motions from its perspective, which causes wrong…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Duc-Anh Nguyen , Cuong Pham , Nhien-An Le-Khac

The current gold standard for human activity recognition (HAR) is based on the use of cameras. However, the poor scalability of camera systems renders them impractical in pursuit of the goal of wider adoption of HAR in mobile computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Eoin Brophy , José Juan Dominguez Veiga , Zhengwei Wang , Alan F. Smeaton , Tomas E. Ward

As a critical component of Wearable AI, IMU-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has attracted increasing attention from both academia and industry in recent years. Although HAR performance has improved considerably in specific scenarios,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-19 Yize Cai , Baoshen Guo , Flora Salim , Zhiqing Hong

Wearable human activity recognition (WHAR) models often suffer from performance degradation under real-world cross-user distribution shifts. Test-time adaptation (TTA) mitigates this degradation by adapting models online using unlabeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Zishu Zhou , Zaipeng Xie , Xuanyao Jie

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

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and their variations have shown effectiveness in facial expression recognition (FER). However, they face challenges when dealing with high computational complexity and multi-view head poses in real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Ali Ezati , Mohammadreza Dezyani , Rajib Rana , Roozbeh Rajabi , Ahmad Ayatollahi

Effective deep feature extraction via feature-level fusion is crucial for multimodal object detection. However, previous studies often involve complex training processes that integrate modality-specific features by stacking multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-27 Lei Hao , Lina Xu , Chang Liu , Yanni Dong

Recognizing human activities in videos is challenging due to the spatio-temporal complexity and context-dependence of human interactions. Prior studies often rely on single input modalities, such as RGB or skeletal data, limiting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Tuyen Tran , Thao Minh Le , Hung Tran , Truyen Tran