Sensor-based human activity recognition for low-power wearable devices

Position: Research appointment (pre-doc) Institute: Uni. Urbino
Posted on: 22/05/2026 Elapsing! Deadline: 06/06/2026

Scientific-Disciplinary Group

09/IINF-05 - Information Processing Systems

Description

In particular, the research project proposes the design and ondevice validation of lightweight neural network architectures capableof recognizing daily activity from wearable accelerometer and gyroscope data. The methodology integrates deep-learning technologies with model compression techniques, including quantization, pruning, and knowledge distillation, to enable on-device inference within a low power budget. The proposed models will be validated on a publicly available benchmark dataset and compared with the state-of-the-art performances. In parallel, the energy consumption of different wearable devices will be captured using a measurement setup to evaluate a tradeoff between classification accuracy and energy sustainability.

Number of positions

1

Funding body

Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo