Thesis topic

Spatial Transformer Networks for Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition

Positioning-invariant Human Activity Recognition using Spatial Transformer Networks

Spatial Transformer Networks for Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition

Overview

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is the task of classifying the activity of humans from wearable sensors like smartwatches. These are sometimes misplaced, e.g. worn on the wrong arm or rotated, compared to the training data. Conventionally, classifiers will not generalize to such misplaced data. In this Bachelor or Master thesis, we will explore Spatial Transformer Networks (STNs), which should be invariant to such misplacement. This work builds on recent work in STns and will be jointly supervised with the authors of that paper.

References

Johann Schmidt, Tom Siegl, Martin Becker, and Sebastian Stober. “Geometrically Constrained and Token-Based Probabilistic Spatial Transformers”. ECCV Workshops, 2026.

Contact

Stefan Lüdtke

stefan.luedtke@uni-rostock.de