Bio-Inspired Self-Supervised Learning for Wrist-worn Accelerometer Data
Wearable accelerometers enable large-scale health monitoring, yet learning robust human-activity representations has been constrained by scarce labeled data. While self-supervised learning offers a remedy, existing methods treat sensor streams as unstructured time series, overlooking the underlying biological structure of human movement, a factor we argue is critical for effective Human Activity Recognition (HAR). We introduce a novel tokenization strategy grounded in the submovement theory of motor control, which posits that continuous wrist motion is composed of elementary basis functions called submovements. We define our token as the movement segment, a computationally tractable unit of motion composed of a finite sequence of submovements. By pretraining a Transformer encoder via masked reconstruction of these tokens, we shift the learning focus from local waveform morphology to high-level structural and temporal organization. Pretrained on the NHANES corpus (approximately 28k hours; 11k participants), our representations outperform strong wearable SSL baselines across six subject-disjoint HAR benchmarks. Code and pretrained weights are available at https://prithvitarale.github.io/biopm-site/.
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