Rotation-Invariant Multi-IMU Activity Recognition under Independent Per-Location Orientation Shifts

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.15621v1
• Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2026 08:39:41 GMT
• Title: Rotation-Invariant Multi-IMU Activity Recognition under Independent Per-Location Orientation Shifts
• Abstract summary: Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with self-administered wearables, such as at-home rehabilitation and exercise monitoring, often requires reattaching inertial measurement units (IMUs) across sessions.<n>This can induce independent orientation offsets across body locations, a deployment shift that conventional scalar HAR models do not structurally handle.<n>We present Truly Rotation-Invariant HAR (TRI-HAR), a rotation-invariant framework that makes robustness to independent per-location IMU orientation offsets a structural model property.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Human Activity Recognition (HAR) with self-administered wearables, such as at-home rehabilitation and exercise monitoring, often requires reattaching inertial measurement units (IMUs) across sessions. In multi-IMU settings, this can induce independent orientation offsets across body locations, a deployment shift that conventional scalar HAR models do not structurally handle. Existing remedies rely on rotation augmentation, whose robustness depends on sampled transformations, or calibration and orientationnormalization pipelines requiring additional reference-frame assumptions or explicit procedures. We present Truly Rotation-Invariant HAR (TRI-HAR), a rotation-invariant framework that makes robustness to independent per-location IMU orientation offsets a structural model property. TRI-HAR reshapes accelerometer and gyroscope streams into triaxial vectors, applies a shared SO(3)-equivariant backbone and invariant projection to each IMU location, and fuses the resulting invariant features for activity classification. Across four multi-IMU benchmarks, TRI-HAR preserves macro-F1 under fixed independent per-location SO(3) rotations and outperforms rotation-augmented baselines under this target shift without requiring rotational augmentation.

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