Publications

2025

1. 

   Past, present, and future of sensor-based human activity recognition using wearables: A surveying tutorial on a still challenging task

   Harish Haresamudram, Chi Ian Tang, Sungho Suh, and 2 more authors

   Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2025

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   @article{haresamudram2025past,
     title = {Past, present, and future of sensor-based human activity recognition using wearables: A surveying tutorial on a still challenging task},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Tang, Chi Ian and Suh, Sungho and Lukowicz, Paul and Ploetz, Thomas},
     journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies},
     volume = {9},
     number = {2},
     pages = {1--44},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3729467},
   }

2. 

   Limitations in Employing Natural Language Supervision for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition-And Ways to Overcome Them

   Harish Haresamudram, Apoorva Beedu, Mashfiqui Rabbi, and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 2025

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   @inproceedings{haresamudram2025limitations,
     title = {Limitations in Employing Natural Language Supervision for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition-And Ways to Overcome Them},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Beedu, Apoorva and Rabbi, Mashfiqui and Saha, Sankalita and Essa, Irfan and Ploetz, Thomas},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
     volume = {39},
     number = {1},
     pages = {273--281},
     year = {2025},
     url = {https://ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AAAI/article/view/32004},
   }

3. 

   Text descriptions of actions and objects improve action anticipation

   Apoorva Beedu, Harish Haresamudram, and Irfan Essa

   In ICASSP 2025-2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2025

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   @inproceedings{beedu2025text,
     title = {Text descriptions of actions and objects improve action anticipation},
     author = {Beedu, Apoorva and Haresamudram, Harish and Essa, Irfan},
     booktitle = {ICASSP 2025-2025 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
     pages = {1--5},
     year = {2025},
     organization = {IEEE},
     url = {https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=10888324},
   }

4. 

   Layout-agnostic human activity recognition in smart homes through textual descriptions of sensor triggers (TDOST)

   Megha Thukral, Sourish Gunesh Dhekane, Shruthi K Hiremath, and 2 more authors

   Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2025

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   @article{thukral2025layout,
     title = {Layout-agnostic human activity recognition in smart homes through textual descriptions of sensor triggers (TDOST)},
     author = {Thukral, Megha and Dhekane, Sourish Gunesh and Hiremath, Shruthi K and Haresamudram, Harish and Ploetz, Thomas},
     journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies},
     volume = {9},
     number = {1},
     pages = {1--38},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3712278},
   }

5. 

   Cross-domain har: Few-shot transfer learning for human activity recognition

   Megha Thukral, Harish Haresamudram, and Thomas Ploetz

   ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 2025

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   @article{thukral2025cross,
     title = {Cross-domain har: Few-shot transfer learning for human activity recognition},
     author = {Thukral, Megha and Haresamudram, Harish and Ploetz, Thomas},
     journal = {ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology},
     volume = {16},
     number = {1},
     pages = {1--35},
     year = {2025},
     publisher = {ACM New York, NY},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3704921},
   }

2024

1. 

   Towards Learning Discrete Representations via Self-Supervision for Wearables-Based Human Activity Recognition

   Harish Haresamudram, Irfan Essa, and Thomas Ploetz

   Sensors, 2024

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   @article{haresamudram2024towards,
     title = {Towards Learning Discrete Representations via Self-Supervision for Wearables-Based Human Activity Recognition},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Essa, Irfan and Ploetz, Thomas},
     journal = {Sensors},
     volume = {24},
     number = {4},
     pages = {1238},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},
   }

2. 

   Large Language Models Memorize Sensor Datasets! Implications on Human Activity Recognition Research

   Harish Haresamudram, Hrudhai Rajasekhar, Nikhil Murlidhar Shanbhogue, and 1 more author

   arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05900, 2024

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   @article{haresamudram2024large,
     title = {Large Language Models Memorize Sensor Datasets! Implications on Human Activity Recognition Research},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Rajasekhar, Hrudhai and Shanbhogue, Nikhil Murlidhar and Ploetz, Thomas},
     journal = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.05900},
     year = {2024},
   }

3. 

   Solving the sensor-based activity recognition problem (soar): self-supervised, multi-modal recognition of activities from wearable sensors (2024)

   Harish Haresamudram, Chi Ian Tang, Sungho Suh, and 2 more authors

   In Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, 2024

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   @inproceedings{haresamudram2024solving,
     title = {Solving the sensor-based activity recognition problem (soar): self-supervised, multi-modal recognition of activities from wearable sensors (2024)},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Tang, Chi Ian and Suh, Sungho and Lukowicz, Paul and Ploetz, Thomas},
     booktitle = {Companion of the 2024 on ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing},
     pages = {1004--1007},
     year = {2024},
     url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3675094.3677562},
   }

2023

1. 

   Investigating enhancements to contrastive predictive coding for human activity recognition

   Harish Haresamudram, Irfan Essa, and Thomas Plötz

   In 2023 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), 2023

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   @inproceedings{haresamudram2023investigating,
     title = {Investigating enhancements to contrastive predictive coding for human activity recognition},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Essa, Irfan and Pl{\"o}tz, Thomas},
     booktitle = {2023 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom)},
     pages = {232--241},
     year = {2023},
     organization = {IEEE},
   }

2. 

   Solving the Sensor-based Activity Recognition Problem (SOAR): Self-supervised, Multi-modal Recognition of Activities from Wearable Sensors

   Harish Haresamudram, Chi Ian Tang, Sungho Suh, and 2 more authors

   In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing, 2023

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   @inproceedings{haresamudram2023solving,
     title = {Solving the Sensor-based Activity Recognition Problem (SOAR): Self-supervised, Multi-modal Recognition of Activities from Wearable Sensors},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Tang, Chi Ian and Suh, Sungho and Lukowicz, Paul and Ploetz, Thomas},
     booktitle = {Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing \& the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing},
     pages = {759--761},
     year = {2023},
   }

3. 

   Investigating self-supervised learning for predicting stress and stressors from passive sensing

   Harish Haresamudram, Jina Suh, Javier Hernandez, and 5 more authors

   In 2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW), 2023

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   @inproceedings{haresamudram2023investigatinh,
     title = {Investigating self-supervised learning for predicting stress and stressors from passive sensing},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Suh, Jina and Hernandez, Javier and Butler, Jenna and Chaudhry, Ahad and Yang, Longqi and Saha, Koustuv and Czerwinski, Mary},
     booktitle = {2023 11th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW)},
     pages = {1--8},
     year = {2023},
     organization = {IEEE},
   }

2022

1. 

   Method and system for automatic extraction of virtual on-body inertial measurement units

   Hyeokhyen Kwon, Gregory D Abowd, Harish Kashyap Haresamudram, and 4 more authors

   Mar 2022

   US Patent App. 17/464,488

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   @misc{kwon2022method,
     title = {Method and system for automatic extraction of virtual on-body inertial measurement units},
     author = {Kwon, Hyeokhyen and Abowd, Gregory D and Haresamudram, Harish Kashyap and Ploetz, Thomas and Tong, Eu Gen Catherine and Gao, Yan and Lane, Nicholas},
     year = {2022},
     month = mar,
     publisher = {Google Patents},
     note = {US Patent App. 17/464,488},
   }

2. 

   Assessing the State of Self-Supervised Human Activity Recognition using Wearables

   Harish Haresamudram, Irfan Essa, and Thomas Plötz

   Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 6.3 (2022), Mar 2022

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   @article{haresamudram2022assessing,
     title = {Assessing the State of Self-Supervised Human Activity Recognition using Wearables},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Essa, Irfan and Pl{\"o}tz, Thomas},
     journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies 6.3 (2022)},
     year = {2022},
   }

3. 

   A personalized approach for developing a snacking detection system using earbuds in a semi-naturalistic setting

   Mehrab Bin Morshed, Harish Kashyap Haresamudram, Dheeraj Bandaru, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Mar 2022

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   @inproceedings{bin2022personalized,
     title = {A personalized approach for developing a snacking detection system using earbuds in a semi-naturalistic setting},
     author = {Bin Morshed, Mehrab and Haresamudram, Harish Kashyap and Bandaru, Dheeraj and Abowd, Gregory D and Pl{\"o}tz, Thomas},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers},
     pages = {11--16},
     year = {2022},
   }

4. 

   Clustering of Human Activities from Wearables by Adopting Nearest Neighbors

   Abrar Ahmed, Harish Haresamudram, and Thomas Ploetz

   In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Mar 2022

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   @inproceedings{ahmed2022clustering,
     title = {Clustering of Human Activities from Wearables by Adopting Nearest Neighbors},
     author = {Ahmed, Abrar and Haresamudram, Harish and Ploetz, Thomas},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers},
     pages = {1--5},
     year = {2022},
   }

2021

1. 

   Contrastive Predictive Coding for Human Activity Recognition

   Harish Haresamudram, Irfan Essa, and Thomas Plötz

   Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Mar 2021

   Bib

   @article{haresamudram2021contrastive,
     title = {Contrastive Predictive Coding for Human Activity Recognition},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Essa, Irfan and Pl{\"o}tz, Thomas},
     journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies},
     volume = {5},
     number = {2},
     pages = {1--26},
     year = {2021},
     publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},
   }

2. 

   Can You See It? Good, So We Can Sense It!

   Hyeokhyen Kwon, Catherine Tong, Harish Haresamudram, and 4 more authors

   GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications, Mar 2021

   Bib

   @article{kwon2021can,
     title = {Can You See It? Good, So We Can Sense It!},
     author = {Kwon, Hyeokhyen and Tong, Catherine and Haresamudram, Harish and Gao, Yan and Abowd, Gregory D and Lane, Nicholas D and Ploetz, Thomas},
     journal = {GetMobile: Mobile Computing and Communications},
     volume = {25},
     number = {2},
     pages = {38--42},
     year = {2021},
     publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},
   }

3. 

   Personalization Models for Human Activity Recognition with Distribution Matching-Based Metrics

   Huy Thong Nguyen, Hyeokhyen Kwon, Harish Haresamudram, and 2 more authors

   In Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition: Second International Workshop, DL-HAR 2020, Held in Conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, Kyoto, Japan, January 8, 2021, Proceedings 2, Mar 2021

   Bib

   @inproceedings{nguyen2021personalization,
     title = {Personalization Models for Human Activity Recognition with Distribution Matching-Based Metrics},
     author = {Nguyen, Huy Thong and Kwon, Hyeokhyen and Haresamudram, Harish and Peterson, Andrew F and Pl{\"o}tz, Thomas},
     booktitle = {Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition: Second International Workshop, DL-HAR 2020, Held in Conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, Kyoto, Japan, January 8, 2021, Proceedings 2},
     pages = {43--56},
     year = {2021},
     organization = {Springer Singapore},
   }

2020

1. 

   IMUTube: Automatic extraction of virtual on-body accelerometry from video for human activity recognition

   Hyeokhyen Kwon, Catherine Tong, Harish Haresamudram, and 4 more authors

   Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Mar 2020

   Bib

   @article{kwon2020imutube,
     title = {IMUTube: Automatic extraction of virtual on-body accelerometry from video for human activity recognition},
     author = {Kwon, Hyeokhyen and Tong, Catherine and Haresamudram, Harish and Gao, Yan and Abowd, Gregory D and Lane, Nicholas D and Ploetz, Thomas},
     journal = {Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies},
     volume = {4},
     number = {3},
     pages = {1--29},
     year = {2020},
     publisher = {ACM New York, NY, USA},
   }

2. 

   Masked reconstruction based self-supervision for human activity recognition

   Harish Haresamudram, Apoorva Beedu, Varun Agrawal, and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Mar 2020

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   @inproceedings{haresamudram2020masked,
     title = {Masked reconstruction based self-supervision for human activity recognition},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Beedu, Apoorva and Agrawal, Varun and Grady, Patrick L and Essa, Irfan and Hoffman, Judy and Pl{\"o}tz, Thomas},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers},
     pages = {45--49},
     year = {2020},
   }

2019

1. 

   On the role of features in human activity recognition

   Harish Haresamudram, David V Anderson, and Thomas Plötz

   In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Mar 2019

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   @inproceedings{haresamudram2019role,
     title = {On the role of features in human activity recognition},
     author = {Haresamudram, Harish and Anderson, David V and Pl{\"o}tz, Thomas},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers},
     pages = {78--88},
     year = {2019},
   }

2017

1. 

   Factor analysis methods for joint speaker verification and spoof detection

   BK Dhanush, S Suparna, R Aarthy, and 4 more authors

   In 2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Mar 2017

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   @inproceedings{dhanush2017factor,
     title = {Factor analysis methods for joint speaker verification and spoof detection},
     author = {Dhanush, BK and Suparna, S and Aarthy, R and Likhita, C and Shashank, D and Harish, H and Ganapathy, Sriram},
     booktitle = {2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)},
     pages = {5385--5389},
     year = {2017},
     organization = {IEEE},
   }

2. 

   IITG-Indigo system for NIST 2016 SRE challenge

   Nagendra Kumar, Rohan Kumar Das, Sarfaraz Jelil, and 6 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH, Mar 2017

   Bib

   @inproceedings{kumar2017iitg,
     title = {IITG-Indigo system for NIST 2016 SRE challenge},
     author = {Kumar, Nagendra and Das, Rohan Kumar and Jelil, Sarfaraz and Dhanush, BK and Kashyap, H and Murty, K Sri Rama and Ganapathy, Sriram and Sinha, Rohit and Prasanna, SR Mahadeva},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH},
     volume = {2017},
     pages = {2859--2863},
     year = {2017},
     organization = {International Speech Communication Association},
   }