The paper introduces SpectrumAudit, a label‑sealed auditing method for wearable human‑activity recognition models that uses phase‑randomized full‑window stimuli to probe sensor biases. By replaying the DC component and a zero‑mean residual on held‑out subjects, the audit demonstrates significant accuracy drops across 27 victim models, with DC perturbations proving more harmful than AC in most cases. The study also shows that the audit can distinguish between persistent sensor offsets and zero‑mean variations under a fixed peak‑budget.
arXiv:2606. 00141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Adaptive sensing strategies that selectively sample data are increasingly used in wearable health systems to improve prediction performance under limited data budgets, yet their benefits across individuals remain poorly understood.
The paper evaluates six onboarding strategies for federated wearable models on five datasets using a leakage‑controlled protocol that fixes source checkpoints and separates calibration from evaluation. Results show that while average accuracy is high, person‑level performance can drop significantly, with some methods causing negative transfer for certain users. The study highlights that mean accuracy alone is insufficient and provides an auditable benchmark and failure map for future development.
The paper introduces a new evaluation protocol for deep multivariate imputation models on wearable device data, addressing the issue of structured missingness where sensor features drop out together. Using a Garmin smartwatch dataset from an epilepsy patient, the authors generate realistic block-missing patterns from training data and show that matching the training protocol to this distribution reduces BRITS’ mean absolute error by 43%. They also extend BRITS with time‑of‑day encoding and compare it to linear interpolation and SAITS, finding that no single model dominates and that model rankings vary with evaluation design.
The paper introduces the Individual Conformal Coupling Monitor (ICCM), a lightweight pre‑inference tool that detects structural ambiguity—when physiological signals that appear plausible individually form a pattern poorly supported by a person’s non‑stress baseline—in wearable stress classifiers. On the WESAD dataset, a Random Forest achieves high mean accuracy but fails entirely for Subject 14 due to weakened cross‑signal coupling near stress onset. ICCM quantifies subject‑specific coupling divergence and can route data to classify, defer, or abstain, reducing false positives slightly and withholding some misclassified windows, though it does not fully correct the failure.
arXiv:2608. 05697v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Respiration provides a continuously available window into physiological state and behavior.
arXiv:2608. 14670v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Passive, device-free person identification offers an alternative to camera- and wearable-based biometrics, yet existing wireless approaches rely largely on gait or activity cues and are rarely evaluated at scale.
arXiv:2607. 20027v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Short-term Heart Rate Variability (HRV) forecasting could provide clinicians with actionable lead time for detecting autonomic dysfunction and adverse cardiac events.
arXiv:2608. 15951v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We study when a wearable stress system should surface a prediction rather than change it.
arXiv:2608. 08859v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs) generate multivariate physiological time series that are highly nonstationary and must often be processed under strict computational and memory constraints.
SOTER is a generative foundation model designed for wearable physiological time‑series data. It integrates cross‑channel coupling, spectrum‑guided expert specialization, and continuous‑time latent evolution, using a spatial feature‑aware backbone, a PSD‑guided mixture‑of‑experts layer, and a neural controlled differential equation decoder. Trained on 226 billion time points from five public datasets, SOTER outperforms baselines in zero‑shot forecasting, classification, and imputation across six benchmarks, and remains robust to additive noise.
Time-series foundation models have demonstrated strong cross-domain transfer, yet their common architectural assumptions remain poorly aligned with wearable physiological signals, which are multichann...
arXiv:2609.22619v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Tracking recovery of walking function requires detecting meaningful gait change across rehabilitation sessions, yet objective 3D measurement remains co...