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In the last decade, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become a vibrant research area, especially due to the spread of electronic devices such as smartphones, smartwatches and video cameras present in our daily lives. In addition, the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-11-20 Florenc Demrozi , Graziano Pravadelli , Azra Bihorac , Parisa Rashidi

Wearables are fundamental to improving our understanding of human activities, especially for an increasing number of healthcare applications from rehabilitation to fine-grained gait analysis. Although our collective know-how to solve Human…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-15 Alireza Abedin , Mahsa Ehsanpour , Qinfeng Shi , Hamid Rezatofighi , Damith C. Ranasinghe

IMU-based gesture interfaces are being increasingly adopted as efficient, accessible, and intuitive alternatives to traditional input methods, such as touchscreens and voice. However, current gesture recognition algorithms are tailored to…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Prerna Khanna , Tanmay Srivastava , Shubham Jain , Aruna Balasubramanian

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a key building block of many emerging applications such as intelligent mobility, sports analytics, ambient-assisted living and human-robot interaction. With robust HAR, systems will become more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Mirco Moencks , Varuna De Silva , Jamie Roche , Ahmet Kondoz

We developed a ResNet-based human activity recognition (HAR) model with minimal overhead to detect gait versus non-gait activities and everyday activities (walking, running, stairs, standing, sitting, lying, sit-to-stand transitions). The…

Human motion analysis is used in many different fields and applications. Currently, existing systems either focus on one single limb or one single class of movements. Many proposed systems are designed to be used in an indoor controlled…

Helmet-mounted wearable positioning systems are crucial for enhancing safety and facilitating coordination in industrial, construction, and emergency rescue environments. These systems, including LiDAR-Inertial Odometry (LIO) and…

Understanding human activities and their surrounding environments typically relies on visual perception, yet cameras pose persistent challenges in privacy, safety, energy efficiency, and scalability. We explore an alternative: 4D perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Hao-Yu Hsu , Tianhang Cheng , Jing Wen , Alexander G. Schwing , Shenlong Wang

Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors are widely employed for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) due to their portability, energy efficiency, and growing research interest. However, a significant challenge for IMU-HAR models is achieving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Qi Qiu , Tao Zhu , Furong Duan , Kevin I-Kai Wang , Liming Chen , Mingxing Nie , Mingxing Nie

Natural Human-Robot Interaction (N-HRI) requires robots to recognize human actions at varying distances and states, regardless of whether the robot itself is in motion or stationary. This setup is more flexible and practical than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Ziyi Wang , Peiming Li , Hong Liu , Zhichao Deng , Can Wang , Jun Liu , Junsong Yuan , Mengyuan Liu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 M Tanjid Hasan Tonmoy , Saif Mahmud , A K M Mahbubur Rahman , M Ashraful Amin , Amin Ahsan Ali

Compared with visual signals, Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) placed on human limbs can capture accurate motion signals while being robust to lighting variation and occlusion. While these characteristics are intuitively valuable to help…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Mingfang Zhang , Yifei Huang , Ruicong Liu , Yoichi Sato

The main streams of human activity recognition (HAR) algorithms are developed based on RGB cameras which are suffered from illumination, fast motion, privacy-preserving, and large energy consumption. Meanwhile, the biologically inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-18 Xiao Wang , Zongzhen Wu , Bo Jiang , Zhimin Bao , Lin Zhu , Guoqi Li , Yaowei Wang , Yonghong Tian

Traditional human activity recognition (HAR) based on time series adopts sliding window analysis method. This method faces the multi-class window problem which mistakenly labels different classes of sampling points within a window as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-09-24 Yong Zhang , Yu Zhang , Zhao Zhang , Jie Bao , Yunpeng Song

Advances in machine learning and wearable sensors offer new opportunities for capturing and analyzing human movement outside specialized laboratories. Accurate assessment of human movement under real-world conditions is essential for…

Activity recognition computer vision algorithms can be used to detect the presence of autism-related behaviors, including what are termed "restricted and repetitive behaviors", or stimming, by diagnostic instruments. The limited data that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Peter Washington , Aaron Kline , Onur Cezmi Mutlu , Emilie Leblanc , Cathy Hou , Nate Stockham , Kelley Paskov , Brianna Chrisman , Dennis P. Wall

The development of robust, generalized models in human activity recognition (HAR) has been hindered by the scarcity of large-scale, labeled data sets. Recent work has shown that virtual IMU data extracted from videos using computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Zikang Leng , Hyeokhyen Kwon , Thomas Plötz

With each sensing modality exhibiting inherent strengths and limitations, multi-modal approaches for wearable Human Activity Recognition (HAR) are becoming increasingly relevant -- particularly for recognizing Activities of Daily Living…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Robin Burchard , Pascal-André Brückner , Marius Bock , Juergen Gall , Kristof Van Laerhoven

Accelerometer-based (and by extension other inertial sensors) research for Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is a dead-end. This sensor does not offer enough information for us to progress in the core domain of HAR - to recognize everyday…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Catherine Tong , Shyam A. Tailor , Nicholas D. Lane

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) stands as a pivotal technique within pattern recognition, dedicated to deciphering human movements and actions utilizing one or multiple sensory inputs. Its significance extends across diverse applications,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Farhad Nazari , Arian Shajari , Darius Nahavandi , Navid Mohajer