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381 Citations
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A Review on Video-Based Human Activity Recognition

  • Shian-Ru Ke,
  • Hoang Le Uyen Thuc,
  • Yong-Jin Lee,
  • Jenq-Neng Hwang,
  • Jang-Hee Yoo and
  • Kyoung-Ho Choi

5 June 2013

This review article surveys extensively the current progresses made toward video-based human activity recognition. Three aspects for human activity recognition are addressed including core technology, human activity recognition systems, and applicati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,924 Views
21 Pages

Acoustic- and Radio-Frequency-Based Human Activity Recognition

  • Masoud Mohtadifar,
  • Michael Cheffena and
  • Alireza Pourafzal

19 April 2022

In this work, a hybrid radio frequency (RF)- and acoustic-based activity recognition system was developed to demonstrate the advantage of combining two non-invasive sensors in Human Activity Recognition (HAR) systems and smart assisted living. We use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
7,276 Views
20 Pages

Multi-Camera-Based Human Activity Recognition for Human–Robot Collaboration in Construction

  • Youjin Jang,
  • Inbae Jeong,
  • Moein Younesi Heravi,
  • Sajib Sarkar,
  • Hyunkyu Shin and
  • Yonghan Ahn

7 August 2023

As the use of construction robots continues to increase, ensuring safety and productivity while working alongside human workers becomes crucial. To prevent collisions, robots must recognize human behavior in close proximity. However, single, or RGB-d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,423 Views
17 Pages

Human Activity Recognition in the Presence of Occlusion

  • Ioannis Vernikos,
  • Theodoros Spyropoulos,
  • Evaggelos Spyrou and
  • Phivos Mylonas

19 May 2023

The presence of occlusion in human activity recognition (HAR) tasks hinders the performance of recognition algorithms, as it is responsible for the loss of crucial motion data. Although it is intuitive that it may occur in almost any real-life enviro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
59 Citations
6,509 Views
17 Pages

A New Deep-Learning Method for Human Activity Recognition

  • Roberta Vrskova,
  • Patrik Kamencay,
  • Robert Hudec and
  • Peter Sykora

4 March 2023

Currently, three-dimensional convolutional neural networks (3DCNNs) are a popular approach in the field of human activity recognition. However, due to the variety of methods used for human activity recognition, we propose a new deep-learning model in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,876 Views
21 Pages

BodyFlow: An Open-Source Library for Multimodal Human Activity Recognition

  • Rafael del-Hoyo-Alonso,
  • Ana Caren Hernández-Ruiz,
  • Carlos Marañes-Nueno,
  • Irene López-Bosque,
  • Rocío Aznar-Gimeno,
  • Pilar Salvo-Ibañez,
  • Pablo Pérez-Lázaro,
  • David Abadía-Gallego and
  • María de la Vega Rodrigálvarez-Chamarro

19 October 2024

Human activity recognition is a critical task for various applications across healthcare, sports, security, gaming, and other fields. This paper presents BodyFlow, a comprehensive library that seamlessly integrates human pose estimation and multiple-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,174 Views
23 Pages

HARE: Unifying the Human Activity Recognition Engineering Workflow

  • Orhan Konak,
  • Robin van de Water,
  • Valentin Döring,
  • Tobias Fiedler,
  • Lucas Liebe,
  • Leander Masopust,
  • Kirill Postnov,
  • Franz Sauerwald,
  • Felix Treykorn and
  • Bert Arnrich
  • + 3 authors

2 December 2023

Sensor-based human activity recognition is becoming ever more prevalent. The increasing importance of distinguishing human movements, particularly in healthcare, coincides with the advent of increasingly compact sensors. A complex sequence of individ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,418 Views
14 Pages

Context-Aware Human Activity Recognition in Industrial Processes

  • Friedrich Niemann,
  • Stefan Lüdtke,
  • Christian Bartelt and
  • Michael ten Hompel

25 December 2021

The automatic, sensor-based assessment of human activities is highly relevant for production and logistics, to optimise the economics and ergonomics of these processes. One challenge for accurate activity recognition in these domains is the context-d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,770 Views
24 Pages

Daily Living Activity Recognition In-The-Wild: Modeling and Inferring Activity-Aware Human Contexts

  • Muhammad Ehatisham-ul-Haq,
  • Fiza Murtaza,
  • Muhammad Awais Azam and
  • Yasar Amin

Advancement in smart sensing and computing technologies has provided a dynamic opportunity to develop intelligent systems for human activity monitoring and thus assisted living. Consequently, many researchers have put their efforts into implementing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
5,451 Views
21 Pages

Human Activity Recognition by Sequences of Skeleton Features

  • Heilym Ramirez,
  • Sergio A. Velastin,
  • Paulo Aguayo,
  • Ernesto Fabregas and
  • Gonzalo Farias

25 May 2022

In recent years, much effort has been devoted to the development of applications capable of detecting different types of human activity. In this field, fall detection is particularly relevant, especially for the elderly. On the one hand, some applica...

  • Review
  • Open Access
53 Citations
13,882 Views
37 Pages

Human Activity Recognition Data Analysis: History, Evolutions, and New Trends

  • Paola Patricia Ariza-Colpas,
  • Enrico Vicario,
  • Ana Isabel Oviedo-Carrascal,
  • Shariq Butt Aziz,
  • Marlon Alberto Piñeres-Melo,
  • Alejandra Quintero-Linero and
  • Fulvio Patara

29 April 2022

The Assisted Living Environments Research Area–AAL (Ambient Assisted Living), focuses on generating innovative technology, products, and services to assist, medical care and rehabilitation to older adults, to increase the time in which these pe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
42 Citations
6,758 Views
23 Pages

A Semi-Automatic Annotation Approach for Human Activity Recognition

  • Patrícia Bota,
  • Joana Silva,
  • Duarte Folgado and
  • Hugo Gamboa

25 January 2019

Modern smartphones and wearables often contain multiple embedded sensors which generate significant amounts of data. This information can be used for body monitoring-based areas such as healthcare, indoor location, user-adaptive recommendations and t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,555 Views
29 Pages

A CSI-Based Multi-Environment Human Activity Recognition Framework

  • Baha A. Alsaify,
  • Mahmoud M. Almazari,
  • Rami Alazrai,
  • Sahel Alouneh and
  • Mohammad I. Daoud

17 January 2022

Passive human activity recognition (HAR) systems, in which no sensors are attached to the subject, provide great potentials compared to conventional systems. One of the recently used techniques showing tremendous potential is channel state informatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
91 Citations
7,573 Views
16 Pages

15 October 2019

Smart Homes are generally considered the final solution for living problem, especially for the health care of the elderly and disabled, power saving, etc. Human activity recognition in smart homes is the key to achieving home automation, which enable...

  • Article
  • Open Access
445 Citations
28,892 Views
17 Pages

6 November 2017

Adopting deep learning methods for human activity recognition has been effective in extracting discriminative features from raw input sequences acquired from body-worn sensors. Although human movements are encoded in a sequence of successive samples...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
7,859 Views
24 Pages

A Flexible Approach for Human Activity Recognition Using Artificial Hydrocarbon Networks

  • Hiram Ponce,
  • Luis Miralles-Pechuán and
  • María De Lourdes Martínez-Villaseñor

25 October 2016

Physical activity recognition based on sensors is a growing area of interest given the great advances in wearable sensors. Applications in various domains are taking advantage of the ease of obtaining data to monitor personal activities and behavior...

  • Article
  • Open Access
102 Citations
17,646 Views
19 Pages

HARTH: A Human Activity Recognition Dataset for Machine Learning

  • Aleksej Logacjov,
  • Kerstin Bach,
  • Atle Kongsvold,
  • Hilde Bremseth Bårdstu and
  • Paul Jarle Mork

25 November 2021

Existing accelerometer-based human activity recognition (HAR) benchmark datasets that were recorded during free living suffer from non-fixed sensor placement, the usage of only one sensor, and unreliable annotations. We make two contributions in this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Citations
8,063 Views
18 Pages

14 January 2022

Due to the wide application of human activity recognition (HAR) in sports and health, a large number of HAR models based on deep learning have been proposed. However, many existing models ignore the effective extraction of spatial and temporal featur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
6,421 Views
17 Pages

25 November 2019

This study presents incremental learning based methods to personalize human activity recognition models. Initially, a user-independent model is used in the recognition process. When a new user starts to use the human activity recognition application,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,568 Views
19 Pages

Margin-Based Deep Learning Networks for Human Activity Recognition

  • Tianqi Lv,
  • Xiaojuan Wang,
  • Lei Jin,
  • Yabo Xiao and
  • Mei Song

27 March 2020

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a popular and challenging research topic, driven by a variety of applications. More recently, with significant progress in the development of deep learning networks for classification tasks, many researchers have m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,914 Views
19 Pages

Asymmetric Residual Neural Network for Accurate Human Activity Recognition

  • Jun Long,
  • Wuqing Sun,
  • Zhan Yang and
  • Osolo Ian Raymond

Human activity recognition (HAR) using deep neural networks has become a hot topic in human–computer interaction. Machines can effectively identify human naturalistic activities by learning from a large collection of sensor data. Activity recog...

  • Review
  • Open Access
42 Citations
12,616 Views
33 Pages

Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition on 3D Human Skeleton: Survey and Comparative Study

  • Hung-Cuong Nguyen,
  • Thi-Hao Nguyen,
  • Rafał Scherer and
  • Van-Hung Le

27 May 2023

Human activity recognition (HAR) is an important research problem in computer vision. This problem is widely applied to building applications in human–machine interactions, monitoring, etc. Especially, HAR based on the human skeleton creates in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,690 Views
13 Pages

Human Activity Recognition for the Identification of Bullying and Cyberbullying Using Smartphone Sensors

  • Vincenzo Gattulli,
  • Donato Impedovo,
  • Giuseppe Pirlo and
  • Lucia Sarcinella

The smartphone is an excellent source of data; it is possible to extrapolate smartphone sensor values and, through Machine Learning approaches, perform anomaly detection analysis characterized by human behavior. This work exploits Human Activity Reco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,006 Views
13 Pages

26 January 2023

Human activity recognition (HAR) has become an interesting topic in healthcare. This application is important in various domains, such as health monitoring, supporting elders, and disease diagnosis. Considering the increasing improvements in smart de...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
9,631 Views
28 Pages

Human Activity Recognition for Production and Logistics—A Systematic Literature Review

  • Christopher Reining,
  • Friedrich Niemann,
  • Fernando Moya Rueda,
  • Gernot A. Fink and
  • Michael ten Hompel

24 July 2019

This contribution provides a systematic literature review of Human Activity Recognition for Production and Logistics. An initial list of 1243 publications that complies with predefined Inclusion Criteria was surveyed by three reviewers. Fifty-two pub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,684 Views
14 Pages

8 April 2025

With the rapid advancement of global development, there is an increasing demand for health monitoring technologies. Human activity recognition and monitoring systems offer a powerful means of identifying daily movement patterns, which helps in unders...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,990 Views
20 Pages

A Novel Hybrid Deep Learning Model for Human Activity Recognition Based on Transitional Activities

  • Saad Irfan,
  • Nadeem Anjum,
  • Nayyer Masood,
  • Ahmad S. Khattak and
  • Naeem Ramzan

9 December 2021

In recent years, a plethora of algorithms have been devised for efficient human activity recognition. Most of these algorithms consider basic human activities and neglect postural transitions because of their subsidiary occurrence and short duration....

  • Article
  • Open Access
210 Citations
16,817 Views
16 Pages

Human Activity Recognition via Hybrid Deep Learning Based Model

  • Imran Ullah Khan,
  • Sitara Afzal and
  • Jong Weon Lee

1 January 2022

In recent years, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become one of the most important research topics in the domains of health and human-machine interaction. Many Artificial intelligence-based models are developed for activity recognition; however,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,576 Views
19 Pages

21 November 2021

In sensor-based human activity recognition, many methods based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been proposed. In the typical CNN-based activity recognition model, each class is treated independently of others. However, actual activity cl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,749 Views
21 Pages

Significant Features for Human Activity Recognition Using Tri-Axial Accelerometers

  • Mohamed Bennasar,
  • Blaine A. Price,
  • Daniel Gooch,
  • Arosha K. Bandara and
  • Bashar Nuseibeh

2 October 2022

Activity recognition using wearable sensors has become essential for a variety of applications. Tri-axial accelerometers are the most widely used sensor for activity recognition. Although various features have been used to capture patterns and classi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,128 Views
42 Pages

1 November 2021

In this article, we study activity recognition in the context of sensor-rich environments. In these environments, many different constraints arise at various levels during the data generation process, such as the intrinsic characteristics of the sens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,128 Views
18 Pages

A Novel Lightweight Human Activity Recognition Method Via L-CTCN

  • Xue Ding,
  • Zhiwei Li,
  • Jinyang Yu,
  • Weiliang Xie,
  • Xiao Li and
  • Ting Jiang

7 December 2023

Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition has attracted significant attention. Deep learning methods are widely used to achieve feature representation and activity sensing. While more learnable parameters in the neural networks model lead to richer feat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
7,352 Views
18 Pages

With the recent spread of mobile devices equipped with different sensors, it is possible to continuously recognise and monitor activities in daily life. This sensor-based human activity recognition is formulated as sequence classification to categori...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
7,102 Views
20 Pages

A Human Activity Recognition Algorithm Based on Stacking Denoising Autoencoder and LightGBM

  • Xile Gao,
  • Haiyong Luo,
  • Qu Wang,
  • Fang Zhao,
  • Langlang Ye and
  • Yuexia Zhang

23 February 2019

Recently, the demand for human activity recognition has become more and more urgent. It is widely used in indoor positioning, medical monitoring, safe driving, etc. Existing activity recognition approaches require either the location information of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
199 Citations
14,909 Views
26 Pages

A Comprehensive Analysis on Wearable Acceleration Sensors in Human Activity Recognition

  • Majid Janidarmian,
  • Atena Roshan Fekr,
  • Katarzyna Radecka and
  • Zeljko Zilic

7 March 2017

Sensor-based motion recognition integrates the emerging area of wearable sensors with novel machine learning techniques to make sense of low-level sensor data and provide rich contextual information in a real-life application. Although Human Activity...

  • Review
  • Open Access
279 Citations
21,408 Views
22 Pages

6 May 2019

Radar, as one of the sensors for human activity recognition (HAR), has unique characteristics such as privacy protection and contactless sensing. Radar-based HAR has been applied in many fields such as human–computer interaction, smart surveillance a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,635 Views
16 Pages

A Novel Feature-Selection Method for Human Activity Recognition in Videos

  • Nadia Tweit,
  • Muath A. Obaidat,
  • Majdi Rawashdeh,
  • Abdalraoof K. Bsoul and
  • Mohammed GH. Al Zamil

26 February 2022

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is the process of identifying human actions in a specific environment. Recognizing human activities from video streams is a challenging task due to problems such as background noise, partial occlusion, changes in scal...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,307 Views
19 Pages

7 September 2023

With the growing interest in smart home environments and in providing seamless interactions with various smart devices, robust and reliable human activity recognition (HAR) systems are becoming essential. Such systems provide automated assistance to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,598 Views
14 Pages

Multihead-Res-SE Residual Network with Attention for Human Activity Recognition

  • Hongbo Kang,
  • Tailong Lv,
  • Chunjie Yang and
  • Wenqing Wang

27 August 2024

Human activity recognition (HAR) typically uses wearable sensors to identify and analyze the time-series data they collect, enabling recognition of specific actions. As such, HAR is increasingly applied in human–computer interaction, healthcare...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,487 Views
18 Pages

24 May 2024

Composite indoor human activity recognition is very important in elderly health monitoring and is more difficult than identifying individual human movements. This article proposes a sensor-based human indoor activity recognition method that integrate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,546 Views
16 Pages

31 January 2024

This research uses a low-resolution infrared array sensor to address real-time human activity recognition while prioritizing the preservation of privacy. The proposed system captures thermal pixels that are represented as a human silhouette. With cam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,630 Views
22 Pages

21 September 2021

Human activity recognition is an extensively researched topic in the last decade. Recent methods employ supervised and unsupervised deep learning techniques in which spatial and temporal dependency is modeled. This paper proposes a novel approach for...

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,699 Views
11 Pages

A Multi-Sensor Dataset for Human Activity Recognition Using Inertial and Orientation Data

  • Jhonathan L. Rivas-Caicedo,
  • Laura Saldaña-Aristizabal,
  • Kevin Niño-Tejada and
  • Juan F. Patarroyo-Montenegro

14 August 2025

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable sensors is an increasingly relevant area for applications in healthcare, rehabilitation, and human–computer interaction. However, publicly available datasets that provide multi-sensor, synchronize...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,726 Views
27 Pages

16 September 2022

Smart devices, such as smartphones, smartwatches, etc., are examples of promising platforms for automatic recognition of human activities. However, it is difficult to accurately monitor complex human activities on these platforms due to interclass pa...

  • Review
  • Open Access
51 Citations
7,152 Views
33 Pages

23 October 2022

The number of older people needing healthcare is a growing global phenomenon. The assistance in long-term care comprises a complex of medical, nursing, rehabilitation, and social assistance services. The cost is substantial, but technology can help r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,003 Views
18 Pages

MLPs Are All You Need for Human Activity Recognition

  • Kamsiriochukwu Ojiako and
  • Katayoun Farrahi

11 October 2023

Convolution, recurrent, and attention-based deep learning techniques have produced the most recent state-of-the-art results in multiple sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) datasets. However, these techniques have high computing costs, restr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
127 Citations
14,765 Views
33 Pages

Human Activity Recognition: Review, Taxonomy and Open Challenges

  • Muhammad Haseeb Arshad,
  • Muhammad Bilal and
  • Abdullah Gani

27 August 2022

Nowadays, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is being widely used in a variety of domains, and vision and sensor-based data enable cutting-edge technologies to detect, recognize, and monitor human activities. Several reviews and surveys on HAR have alr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,726 Views
21 Pages

25 April 2024

In recent years, the continuous progress of wireless communication and sensor technology has enabled sensors to be better integrated into mobile devices. Therefore, sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has attracted widespread attention amon...

  • Article
  • Open Access
61 Citations
6,192 Views
22 Pages

Empirical Study and Improvement on Deep Transfer Learning for Human Activity Recognition

  • Renjie Ding,
  • Xue Li,
  • Lanshun Nie,
  • Jiazhen Li,
  • Xiandong Si,
  • Dianhui Chu,
  • Guozhong Liu and
  • Dechen Zhan

24 December 2018

Human activity recognition (HAR) based on sensor data is a significant problem in pervasive computing. In recent years, deep learning has become the dominating approach in this field, due to its high accuracy. However, it is difficult to make accurat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
841 Views
29 Pages

1 October 2025

This study presents a comparative analysis of electrocardiogram (ECG) and accelerometer (ACC) data in the context of unsupervised human activity recognition and subject identification. Recordings were obtained from 30 participants performing activiti...

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