English
Related papers

Related papers: Identifying Ethical Biases in Action Recognition M…

200 papers

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

Facial expression recognition (FER) algorithms classify facial expressions into emotions such as happy, sad, or angry. An evaluative challenge facing FER algorithms is the fall in performance when detecting spontaneous expressions compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Rina Khan , Catherine Stinson

Time series anomaly detection is a critical machine learning task for numerous applications, such as finance, healthcare, and industrial systems. However, even high-performing models may exhibit potential issues such as biases, leading to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ziquan Deng , Xiwei Xuan , Kwan-Liu Ma , Zhaodan Kong

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

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

Human Activity Recognition (HAR), based on machine and deep learning algorithms is considered one of the most promising technologies to monitor professional and daily life activities for different categories of people (e.g., athletes,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-19 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Graziano Pravadelli

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the central problems in fields such as healthcare, elderly care, and security at home. However, traditional HAR approaches face challenges including data scarcity, difficulties in model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xi Chen , Julien Cumin , Fano Ramparany , Dominique Vaufreydaz

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

Automated and accurate human activity recognition (HAR) using body-worn sensors enables practical and cost efficient remote monitoring of Activity of DailyLiving (ADL), which are shown to provide clinical insights across multiple…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-01 Maximilien Burq , Niranjan Sridhar

Bias analysis for synthetic face detection is bound to become a critical topic in the coming years. Although many detection models have been developed and several datasets have been released to reliably identify synthetic content, one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Asmae Lamsaf , Lucia Cascone , Hugo Proença , João Neves

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

Numerous studies have shown that existing Face Recognition Systems (FRS), including commercial ones, often exhibit biases toward certain ethnicities due to under-represented data. In this work, we explore ethnicity alteration and skin tone…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Praveen Kumar Chandaliya , Kiran Raja , Raghavendra Ramachandra , Zahid Akhtar , Christoph Busch

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is considered a valuable research topic in the last few decades. Different types of machine learning models are used for this purpose, and this is a part of analyzing human behavior through machines. It is…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-03-31 Jakaria Rabbi , Md. Tahmid Hasan Fuad , Md. Abdul Awal

Artificial intelligence is increasingly used in hiring, raising concerns about how applicants perceive these systems. While prior work on algorithmic fairness has emphasized technical bias mitigation, little is known about how avatar…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Ka Hei Carrie Lau , Philipp Stark , Efe Bozkir , Enkelejda Kasneci

Over the past decades the machine and deep learning community has celebrated great achievements in challenging tasks such as image classification. The deep architecture of artificial neural networks together with the plenitude of available…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Jessica Deuschel , Bettina Finzel , Ines Rieger

In this paper, we propose a novel explanatory framework aimed to provide a better understanding of how face recognition models perform as the underlying data characteristics (protected attributes: gender, ethnicity, age; non-protected…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Andrea Atzori , Gianni Fenu , Mirko Marras

In a world increasingly reliant on artificial intelligence, it is more important than ever to consider the ethical implications of artificial intelligence on humanity. One key under-explored challenge is labeler bias, which can create…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-25 Luke Haliburton , Sinksar Ghebremedhin , Robin Welsch , Albrecht Schmidt , Sven Mayer

From massive face-recognition-based surveillance and machine-learning-based decision systems predicting crime recidivism rates, to the move towards automated health diagnostic systems, artificial intelligence (AI) is being used in scenarios…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Timnit Gebru

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) from devices like smartphone accelerometers is a fundamental problem in ubiquitous computing. Machine learning based recognition models often perform poorly when applied to new users that were not part of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Alan Mazankiewicz , Klemens Böhm , Mario Bergés

Today, there are standard and well established procedures within the Human Activity Recognition (HAR) pipeline. However, some of these conventional approaches lead to accuracy overestimation. In particular, sliding windows for data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Andrés Tello , Victoria Degeler , Alexander Lazovik