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HHAR-net uses neural networks to recognize human activities at different levels of abstraction.
Few-shot learning is a technique to learn a model with a very small amount of labeled training data by transferring knowledge from relevant tasks. In this paper, we propose a few-shot learning method for wearable sensor based human activity recognition, a technique that seeks high-level human activity knowledge from lo…
New approach improves human activity recognition with wearables.
Active IRL selects optimal human demonstrations for learning AI preferences.
New feature representation improves HAR model accuracy.
CPATTA uses conformal prediction for efficient test-time adaptation.
We propose Disentanglement based Active Learning (DAL), a new active learning technique based on self-supervision which leverages the concept of disentanglement. Instead of requesting labels from human oracle, our method automatically labels the majority of the datapoints, thus drastically reducing the human labeling b…
The problem of automatic identification of physical activities performed by human subjects is referred to as Human Activity Recognition (HAR). There exist several techniques to measure motion characteristics during these physical activities, such as Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). IMUs have a cornerstone position in…
Paper proposes efficient RLHF methods for LLMs using active queries.
The problem of human activity recognition is central for understanding and predicting the human behavior, in particular in a prospective of assistive services to humans, such as health monitoring, well being, security, etc. There is therefore a growing need to build accurate models which can take into account the varia…
Generative models have made immense progress in recent years, particularly in their ability to generate high quality images. However, that quality has been difficult to evaluate rigorously, with evaluation dominated by heuristic approaches that do not correlate well with human judgment, such as the Inception Score and …
Standard myopic active learning assumes that human annotations are always obtainable whenever new samples are selected. This, however, is unrealistic in many real-world applications where human experts are not readily available at all times. In this paper, we consider the single shot setting: all the required samples s…
Active learning framework for optimizing human preferences in reinforcement learning.
Dual active learning improves RLHF by selecting optimal conversations and teachers.
RAN model recognizes multiple activities from unlabeled sensor data.
Efficiently identifies good policies by choosing contexts for human feedback.
K-fold Cross Validation is commonly used to evaluate classifiers and tune their hyperparameters. However, it assumes that data points are Independent and Identically Distributed (i.i.d.) so that samples used in the training and test sets can be selected randomly and uniformly. In Human Activity Recognition datasets, we…
Human activity recognition using smart home sensors is one of the bases of ubiquitous computing in smart environments and a topic undergoing intense research in the field of ambient assisted living. The increasingly large amount of data sets calls for machine learning methods. In this paper, we introduce a deep learnin…
Recognising human activities from streaming videos poses unique challenges to learning algorithms: predictive models need to be scalable, incrementally trainable, and must remain bounded in size even when the data stream is arbitrarily long. Furthermore, as parameter tuning is problematic in a streaming setting, suitab…
Unlike images or videos data which can be easily labeled by human being, sensor data annotation is a time-consuming process. However, traditional methods of human activity recognition require a large amount of such strictly labeled data for training classifiers. In this paper, we present an attention-based convolutiona…
Deep neural networks, including recurrent networks, have been successfully applied to human activity recognition. Unfortunately, the final representation learned by recurrent networks might encode some noise (irrelevant signal components, unimportant sensor modalities, etc.). Besides, it is difficult to interpret the r…
Using supervised machine learning approaches to recognize human activities from on-body wearable accelerometers generally requires a large amount of labelled data. When ground truth information is not available, too expensive, time consuming or difficult to collect, one has to rely on unsupervised approaches. This pape…
Our research focuses on analysing human activities according to a known behaviorist scenario, in case of noisy and high dimensional collected data. The data come from the monitoring of patients with dementia diseases by wearable cameras. We define a structural model of video recordings based on a Hidden Markov Model. N…
Human activity recognition (HAR) is a classification task that aims to classify human activities or predict human behavior by means of features extracted from sensors data. Typical HAR systems use wearable sensors and/or handheld and mobile devices with built-in sensing capabilities. Due to the widespread use of smartp…
Activity recognition is the ability to identify and recognize the action or goals of the agent. The agent can be any object or entity that performs action that has end goals. The agents can be a single agent performing the action or group of agents performing the actions or having some interaction. Human activity recog…
Efficiently learns reward functions with fewer queries and shorter computation times.
Using raw sensor data to model and train networks for Human Activity Recognition can be used in many different applications, from fitness tracking to safety monitoring applications. These models can be easily extended to be trained with different data sources for increased accuracies or an extension of classifications …
In this work, we introduce a novel framework that employs cluster annotation to boost active learning by reducing the number of human interactions required to train deep neural networks. Instead of annotating single samples individually, humans can also label clusters, producing a higher number of annotated samples wit…
Learning the preferences of a human improves the quality of the interaction with the human. The number of queries available to learn preferences maybe limited especially when interacting with a human, and so active learning is a must. One approach to active learning is to use uncertainty sampling to decide the informat…
Bal-PM reduces preference labeling costs for LLMs.
Batteryless or so called passive wearables are providing new and innovative methods for human activity recognition (HAR), especially in healthcare applications for older people. Passive sensors are low cost, lightweight, unobtrusive and desirably disposable; attractive attributes for healthcare applications in hospital…
Smartphones have been the most popular and widely used devices among means of communication. Nowadays, human activity recognition is possible on mobile devices by embedded sensors, which can be exploited to manage user behavior on mobile devices by predicting user activity. To reach this aim, storing activity character…
Active learning aims to reduce labeling efforts by selectively asking humans to annotate the most important data points from an unlabeled pool and is an example of human-machine interaction. Though active learning has been extensively researched for classification and ranking problems, it is relatively understudied for…
A significant challenge for a supervised learning approach to inertial human activity recognition is the heterogeneity of data between individual users, resulting in very poor performance of impersonal algorithms for some subjects. We present an approach to personalized activity recognition based on deep embeddings der…
Paper tackles active learning under human label variation, proposing a new framework.
Improved heart rate and activity recognition with low-power wrist sensors.
Self-attention model improves HAR from wearable sensors.
We consider the problem of explaining the decisions of deep neural networks for image recognition in terms of human-recognizable visual concepts. In particular, given a test set of images, we aim to explain each classification in terms of a small number of image regions, or activation maps, which have been associated w…
Paper proposes active learning for mining conflict dynamics from textual data.
MCAL reduces labeling costs by 6x for auto-labeling data sets.
Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI) is a powerful non-invasive tool for localizing and analyzing brain activity. This study focuses on one very important aspect of the functional properties of human brain, specifically the estimation of the level of parallelism when performing complex cognitive tasks. Using fM…
Mixed likelihood GPs improve model performance in human-in-the-loop experiments.
Automated quality control for seismic data reduces human labor and time.
Smartwatches are increasingly being used to recognize human daily life activities. These devices may employ different kind of machine learning (ML) solutions. One of such ML models is Gradient Boosting Machine (GBM) which has shown an excellent performance in the literature. The GBM can be trained on available data set…
Representation of human actions as a sequence of human body movements or action attributes enables the development of models for human activity recognition and summarization. We present an extension of the low-rank representation (LRR) model, termed the clustering-aware structure-constrained low-rank representation (CS…
AI task delegation faces incentive collapse with unbounded payments as AI accuracy rises.
ESPRESSO segments time-series data for better human activity recognition.
Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (DCNNs) are currently popular in human activity recognition applications. However, in the face of modern artificial intelligence sensor-based games, many research achievements cannot be practically applied on portable devices. DCNNs are typically resource-intensive and too large to be…