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Real-time Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has wide-ranging applications in areas such as context-aware environments, public safety, assistive technologies, and autonomous monitoring and surveillance systems. However, existing real-time HAR…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Wasi Ullah , Yasir Noman Khalid , Saddam Hussain Khan

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the fundamental building blocks of human assistive devices like orthoses and exoskeletons. There are different approaches to HAR depending on the application. Numerous studies have been focused on…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Farhad Nazari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer , Abbas Khosravi

Fairness,the impartial treatment towards individuals or groups regardless of their inherent or acquired characteristics [20], is a critical challenge for the successful implementation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in multiple fields like…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Catalina M Jaramillo , Paul Squires , Julian Togelius

Face recognition algorithms, when used in the real world, can be very useful, but they can also be dangerous when biased toward certain demographics. So, it is essential to understand how these algorithms are trained and what factors affect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Manideep Kolla , Aravinth Savadamuthu

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a crucial technology for many applications such as smart homes, surveillance, human assistance and health care. This technology utilises pattern recognition and can contribute to the development of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-10 Farhad Nazari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer , Abbas Khosravi

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) based on the sensors of mobile/wearable devices aims to detect the physical activities performed by humans in their daily lives. Although supervised learning methods are the most effective in this task,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-04-25 Sannara Ek , Riccardo Presotto , Gabriele Civitarese , François Portet , Philippe Lalanda , Claudio Bettini

When a vision model performs image recognition, which visual attributes drive its predictions? Detecting unintended reliance on specific visual features is critical for ensuring model robustness, preventing overfitting, and avoiding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-20 Christy Li , Josep Lopez Camuñas , Jake Thomas Touchet , Jacob Andreas , Agata Lapedriza , Antonio Torralba , Tamar Rott Shaham

Designing a scheme that can achieve a good performance in predicting single person activities and group activities is a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel robust and efficient human activity recognition scheme called ReHAR,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-28 Xin Li , Mooi Choo Chuah

As computer vision systems are being increasingly deployed at scale in high-stakes applications like autonomous driving, concerns about social bias in these systems are rising. Analysis of fairness in real-world vision systems, such as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Sruthi Sudhakar , Viraj Prabhu , Olga Russakovsky , Judy Hoffman

LLMs are increasingly powerful and widely used to assist users in a variety of tasks. This use risks the introduction of LLM biases to consequential decisions such as job hiring, human performance evaluation, and criminal sentencing. Bias…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Mahammed Kamruzzaman , Md. Minul Islam Shovon , Gene Louis Kim

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

As facial recognition systems are deployed more widely, scholars and activists have studied their biases and harms. Audits are commonly used to accomplish this and compare the algorithmic facial recognition systems' performance against…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-01 Samuel Dooley , George Z. Wei , Tom Goldstein , John P. Dickerson

Vision-based human activity recognition (HAR) has made substantial progress in recognizing predefined gestures but lacks adaptability for emerging activities. This paper introduces a paradigm shift by harnessing generative modeling and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Nikhil Kashyap , Manas Satish Bedmutha , Prerit Chaudhary , Brian Wood , Wanda Pratt , Janice Sabin , Andrea Hartzler , Nadir Weibel

Despite the central role of action in embodied intelligence, learning transferable action representations from visual transitions remains a fundamental challenge, particularly when world models must generalize across embodiments under…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hongjia Liu , Fan Feng , Minghao Fu , Xinyue Wang , Haofei Lu , Biwei Huang

While decision makers have begun to employ machine learning, machine learning models may make predictions that bias against certain demographic groups. Semi-automated bias detection tools often present reports of automatically-detected…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-05-12 Po-Ming Law , Sana Malik , Fan Du , Moumita Sinha

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

As machine learning (ML) systems become increasingly widespread, it is necessary to audit these systems for biases prior to their deployment. Recent research has developed algorithms for effectively identifying intersectional bias in the…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-28 David Munechika , Zijie J. Wang , Jack Reidy , Josh Rubin , Krishna Gade , Krishnaram Kenthapadi , Duen Horng Chau

Face recognition systems (FRS) exhibit significant accuracy differences based on the user's gender. Since such a gender gap reduces the trustworthiness of FRS, more recent efforts have tried to find the causes. However, these studies make…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Paul Jonas Kurz , Haiyu Wu , Kevin W. Bowyer , Philipp Terhörst

In wearable-based human activity recognition (HAR) research, one of the major challenges is the large intra-class variability problem. The collected activity signal is often, if not always, coupled with noises or bias caused by personal,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-16 Jie Su , Zhenyu Wen , Tao Lin , Yu Guan

Machine-learned systems are in widespread use for making decisions about humans, and it is important that they are fair, i.e., not biased against individuals based on sensitive attributes. We present a general framework of runtime…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Thomas A. Henzinger , Mahyar Karimi , Konstantin Kueffner , Kaushik Mallik