{"id":22520,"date":"2026-07-16T13:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neuraldesigner.com\/use-cases\/activity-recognition\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T13:47:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T11:47:15","slug":"activity-recognition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.neuraldesigner.com\/use-cases\/activity-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Human activity recognition using machine learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Introduction<\/h2>\n<p>Device sensors provide real-time insights into what persons are doing (walking, running, driving, etc.).Knowing users&#8217; activity allows, for instance, to interact with them through an app.<\/p>\n<p>You can apply machine learning to detect activities by reading and processing sensor data in this regard.<\/p>\n<p>Healthcare professionals can test this methodology by downloading Neural Designer<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Download<\/p>\n<h2>Contents<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"#objectives\"><br \/>\n1. Objectives<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#benefits\"><br \/>\n2. Benefits<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#approach\"><br \/>\n3. Approach<br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"#conclusions\"><br \/>\n4. Conclusions<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>1. Objectives<\/h2>\n<p>Human Activity Recognition (HAR) classifies a person\u2019s actions from sensor measurements.<\/p>\n<p>With the rise of the Internet of Things, devices like smartwatches, heart rate monitors, or smartphones easily capture this data.<\/p>\n<p>Feature extraction is usually performed with a fixed-length sliding window, requiring parameters such as window size and shift.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Body acceleration.<\/li>\n<li>Gravity acceleration.<\/li>\n<li>Body angular speed.<\/li>\n<li>Body angular acceleration.<\/li>\n<li>Etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The machine learning model used for activity recognition relies on top of the devices&#8217; available sensors.<\/p>\n<p>However, analyzing this data can be a big challenge. Indeed, human activities are complex, and there are differences between individuals.<\/p>\n<h2>2. Benefits<\/h2>\n<h3>2.1. Monitor health<\/h3>\n<p>Analyze a person\u2019s activity by carefully processing the information collected from various wearable devices and sensors to continuously monitor their health.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>2.2. Discover activity patterns<\/h3>\n<p>Identify the key variables and patterns from the collected data that accurately determine which activity a person is performing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>2.3. Detect activity<\/h3>\n<p>Build a predictive model that can accurately recognize a person\u2019s activity based on the signals received from multiple wearable devices and sensors over time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>2.3. Improve wellbeing<\/h3>\n<p>Use the analysis to design personalized exercise plans specifically aimed at improving the overall health and wellbeing of the individual.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>3. Approach<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neuraldesigner.com\/learning\/neural-networks-tutorial\">Neural networks<\/a> are the perfect algorithms to determine a person&#8217;s physical activity. This is due to their ability to recognize the patterns behind the data.<\/p>\n<p>The following graph illustrates a neural network that classifies different activities using smartphone data.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neuraldesigner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/activity-recognition-neural-network-small.webp\" sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neuraldesigner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/activity-recognition-neural-network-small.webp 601w, https:\/\/www.neuraldesigner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/activity-recognition-neural-network-small-300x96.webp 300w\" alt=\"\" width=\"601\" height=\"192\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>4. Conclusions<\/h2>\n<p>Human activity recognition has a wide range of uses because of its impact on wellbeing.<\/p>\n<p>It is becoming a fundamental tool in healthcare solutions such as preventing obesity or caring for elderly persons.<\/p>\n<h2>Data sets<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ics.uci.edu\/ml\/datasets\/OPPORTUNITY+Activity+Recognition\">OPPORTUNITY Activity Recognition Data Set<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Further reading<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/abs\/pii\/S016786551830045X\">Deep learning for sensor-based activity recognition: A survey<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0957417412010585\" rel=\"nofollow\">Chernbumroong, S., Cang, S., Atkins, A., &amp; Yu, H. (2013). Elderly activities recognition and classification for applications in assisted living. Expert Systems with Applications, 40(5), 1662-1674<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/dspace.mit.edu\/handle\/1721.1\/44913\" rel=\"nofollow\">Anguita, D., Ghio, A., Oneto, L., Parra, X., &amp; Reyes-Ortiz, J. L. (2013, April). A public domain dataset for human activity recognition using smartphones. In Esann<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdpi.com\/1424-8220\/10\/2\/1154\/htm\" rel=\"nofollow\">Mannini, A., &amp; Sabatini, A. M. (2010). Machine learning methods for classifying human physical activity from on-body accelerometers. Sensors, 10(2), 1154-1175<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Related posts<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction Device sensors provide real-time insights into what persons are doing (walking, running, driving, etc.).Knowing users&#8217; activity allows, for instance, to interact with them through an app. You can apply machine learning to detect activities by reading and processing sensor data in this regard. 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