arXiv:2610.19411v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: A major challenge in wearable device activity recognition is the heterogeneity across datasets in sensor placement, channel count, sampling rate and su...
By Yogesh Prabhu, Loki Natarajan, Jingjing Zou
arXiv:2607. 06617v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wearable motion sensing provides a continuous and scalable window into human behavior and health, making it a natural fit for foundation models, yet its pretraining and scaling principles remain poorly understood.
By Zongzhe Xu, Aakarsh Anand, Sarah Jiang, Chuntung Zhuang, Zitao Shuai, Sriram Sankararaman, Yuzhe Yang
HALO is a heterogeneity‑aware, language‑aligned foundation model for inertial measurement unit (IMU) based human activity recognition. It uses a two‑stage training process: first, a self‑supervised encoder learns to handle diverse sensor configurations and natural‑language sensor descriptions; second, the encoder is aligned with text embeddings through synonym‑aware contrastive learning, enabling open‑set recognition via cosine similarity. Trained on ten public HAR datasets, HALO outperforms five state‑of‑the‑art baselines across eight metrics while using only ~35 M parameters, and improves zero‑shot open‑set accuracy by 13.7 percentage points over 87 training labels.
By Zihan Ding, Liyu Zhang, Xiaomin Ouyang
arXiv:2510. 09764v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Modeling multi-modal time-series data is critical for capturing system-level dynamics, particularly in biosignals where modalities such as ECG, PPG, EDA, and accelerometry provide complementary perspectives on interconnected physiological processes.
By Wanting Mao, Maxwell A Xu, Harish Haresamudram, Mithun Saha, Santosh Kumar, James Matthew Rehg
arXiv:2606. 04019v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent studies on sensor-language alignment have shown that two-stage frameworks can improve the semantic modeling ability of wearable-sensor human activity recognition (HAR), where SensorLLM-style methods first perform motion-to-language alignment and then fine-tune the model for downstream tasks.
By Hao Li, Mingrui Zheng, Yasuyuki Tahara, Yuichi Sei
The paper introduces the Elastic Shape Variational Autoencoder (ES‑VAE), a geometry‑aware generative model for skeletal pose trajectories that uses the transported square‑root velocity field representation on Kendall's shape manifold to remove rigid transformations and temporal rate variability. ES‑VAE maps sequences to a low‑dimensional latent space via the Riemannian logarithm map and reconstructs them using the exponential map. Experiments on gait analysis for clinical mobility scoring and action recognition on the NTU RGB+D dataset show that ES‑VAE outperforms standard VAEs and several sequence‑modeling baselines.
By Arafat Rahman, Shashwat Kumar, Laura E. Barnes, Anuj Srivastava
The paper introduces a biologically inspired framework that learns object‑centric visual representations from raw videos without human annotations or camera calibration. By using motion boundaries detected via optical flow and clustering to create pseudo‑instance masks, the method supervises a single‑image encoder with pixel‑level pairwise metric learning. Training on 195 million pseudo‑labeled frames and expanding to 421 million frames through Motion‑Verified Self‑Training, the approach yields Swin‑based encoders that outperform or match supervised and self‑supervised baselines on tasks such as monocular depth estimation, 3D object detection, 3D occupancy prediction, and end‑to‑end planning.
By Boshi Li, Xiaohui Wang, Xiaoyang Wu, Zhichao Li, Ya Yang, Naiyan Wang
arXiv:2607. 16350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has achieved significant progressed in fully supervised learning settings.
By Mohd Halim Mohd Noor, Abdulrahman M. A. Baraka
arXiv:2604. 00767v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Wearable human activity recognition (HAR) has made steady progress, yet much of this progress remains grounded in fixed-window, closed-set classification benchmarks.
By Lala Shakti Swarup Ray, Mengxi Liu, Alcina Pinto, Deepika Gurung, Daniel Geissler, Paul Lukowoicz, Bo Zhou
arXiv:2608. 15861v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-grained wrist activity recognition can support applications such as procedural step guidance and context-aware assistance, yet acquiring labeled data for every new task, user, and activity granularity remains a bottleneck.
By Aidan Bradshaw, Riku Arakawa, Xin Liu, Karan Ahuja
arXiv:2202. 14019v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Maintaining proper form while exercising is important for preventing injuries and maximizing muscle mass gains.
By Paritosh Parmar, Amol Gharat, Helge Rhodin
arXiv:2607. 26631v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Human Activity Recognition (HAR) from wearable sensors supports applications in healthcare, rehabilitation, fitness tracking, and smart environments.
By Hansi Karunarathna, Nirhoshan Sivaroopan, Chamara Madarasingha, Anura Jayasumana, Kanchana Thilakarathna