Matching Skeleton-based Activity Representations with Heterogeneous Signals for HAR

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14547v1
• Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 18:43:06 GMT
• Title: Matching Skeleton-based Activity Representations with Heterogeneous Signals for HAR
• Authors: Shuheng Li, Jiayun Zhang, Xiaohan Fu, Xiyuan Zhang, Jingbo Shang, Rajesh K. Gupta,
• Abstract summary: We propose SKELAR, a novel framework that pretrains activity representations from skeleton data and matches them with heterogeneous HAR signals.<n>SKELAR achieves the state-of-the-art performance in both full-shot and few-shot settings.<n>We also demonstrate that SKELAR can effectively leverage synthetic skeleton data to extend its use in scenarios without skeleton collections.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In human activity recognition (HAR), activity labels have typically been encoded in one-hot format, which has a recent shift towards using textual representations to provide contextual knowledge. Here, we argue that HAR should be anchored to physical motion data, as motion forms the basis of activity and applies effectively across sensing systems, whereas text is inherently limited. We propose SKELAR, a novel HAR framework that pretrains activity representations from skeleton data and matches them with heterogeneous HAR signals. Our method addresses two major challenges: (1) capturing core motion knowledge without context-specific details. We achieve this through a self-supervised coarse angle reconstruction task that recovers joint rotation angles, invariant to both users and deployments; (2) adapting the representations to downstream tasks with varying modalities and focuses. To address this, we introduce a self-attention matching module that dynamically prioritizes relevant body parts in a data-driven manner. Given the lack of corresponding labels in existing skeleton data, we establish MASD, a new HAR dataset with IMU, WiFi, and skeleton, collected from 20 subjects performing 27 activities. This is the first broadly applicable HAR dataset with time-synchronized data across three modalities. Experiments show that SKELAR achieves the state-of-the-art performance in both full-shot and few-shot settings. We also demonstrate that SKELAR can effectively leverage synthetic skeleton data to extend its use in scenarios without skeleton collections.

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