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The problem of automatic identification of physical activities performed by human subjects is referred to as Human Activity Recognition (HAR). There exist several techniques to measure motion characteristics during these physical…

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Activity recognition using built-in sensors in smart and wearable devices provides great opportunities to understand and detect human behavior in the wild and gives a more holistic view of individuals' health and well being. Numerous…

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Background. Wearable accelerometry devices allow collection of high-density activity data in large epidemiological studies both in-the-lab as well as in-the-wild (free-living). Such data can be used to detect and identify periods of…

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Accelerometers enable an objective measurement of physical activity levels among groups of individuals in free-living environments, providing high-resolution detail about physical activity changes at different time scales. Current…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-01-21 Marcos Matabuena , Alexander Petersen

Human activity recognition has grown in popularity with its increase of applications within daily lifestyles and medical environments. The goal of having efficient and reliable human activity recognition brings benefits such as accessible…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Rushit Dave , Naeem Seliya , Mounika Vanamala , Wei Tee

Smart insoles equipped with pressure sensors, accelerometers, and gyroscopes offer a non-intrusive means of monitoring human gait and posture. We present an activity classification system based on a circular dilated convolutional neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yanhua Zhao

Assessing how individuals perform different activities is key information for modeling health states of individuals and populations. Descriptions of activity performance in clinical free text are complex, including syntactic negation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Denis Newman-Griffis , Ayah Zirikly , Guy Divita , Bart Desmet

Human activity recognition is critical for applications such as early intervention and health analytics. Traditional activity recognition relies on inertial measurement units (IMUs), which are resource intensive and require calibration.…

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Smartphones, smartwatches, fitness trackers, and ad-hoc wearable devices are being increasingly used to monitor human activities. Data acquired by the hosted sensors are usually processed by machine-learning-based algorithms to classify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-09 Daniela Micucci , Marco Mobilio , Paolo Napoletano

Physical activity (PA) is an important risk factor for many health outcomes. Wearable-devices such as accelerometers are increasingly used in biomedical studies to understand the associations between PA and health outcomes. Statistical…

Methodology · Statistics 2021-12-08 Sneha Jadhav , Carmen D. Tekwe , Yuanyuan Luan

In this paper, we present electromyography analysis of human activity - database 1 (EMAHA-DB1), a novel dataset of multi-channel surface electromyography (sEMG) signals to evaluate the activities of daily living (ADL). The dataset is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-01-10 Naveen Kumar Karnam , Anish Chand Turlapaty , Shiv Ram Dubey , Balakrishna Gokaraju

A continuous monitoring of the physical strength and mobility of elderly people is important for maintaining their health and treating diseases at an early stage. However, frequent screenings by physicians are exceeding the logistic…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-03-11 Björn Friedrich , Enno-Edzard Steen , Sebastian Fudickar , Andreas Hein

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…

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In this paper, we propose a self-supervised learning solution for human activity recognition with smartphone accelerometer data. We aim to develop a model that learns strong representations from accelerometer signals, in order to perform…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Setareh Rahimi Taghanaki , Michael Rainbow , Ali Etemad

This article presents and evaluates a novel algorithm for learning a physical activity classifier for a low-power embedded wrist-located device. The overall system is designed for real-time execution and it is implemented in the commercial…

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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

Activity monitors are widely used to measure various physical activities (PA) as an indicator of mobility, fitness and general health. Similarly, real-time monitoring of longitudinal trends in step count has significant clinical potential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-17 Arvind Pillai , Halsey Lea , Faisal Khan , Glynn Dennis

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

Acuity assessments are vital in critical care settings to provide timely interventions and fair resource allocation. Traditional acuity scores rely on manual assessments and documentation of physiological states, which can be…

Physical activity patterns can be informative about a patient's health status. Traditionally, activity data have been gathered using patient self-report. However, these subjective data can suffer from bias and are difficult to collect over…

Methodology · Statistics 2022-02-08 Emily Huang , Kebin Yan , Jukka-Pekka Onnela