ResearchResearch paperRobotics & Embodied AI1 source · Oct 6, 2026

REFIT: Recognize, Fix, and Test Wearable Sensor Placement Shifts without Labels

We present REFIT, an input calibration for frozen activity-recognition models whose inertial sensors are worn differently at deployment than in training.

Key points

  • When users move a watch to the other wrist or put a strap sensor back on turned, the model sees the same motion on changed axes.
  • REFIT undoes such shifts without labels or retraining.
  • It tests the fixed model with a label-free accuracy estimate and asks the user to re-wear the sensor when it is low.
  • Experiments on real left/right sensor pairs and on real and simulated re-attachment show that REFIT outperforms label-free test-time adaptation methods on every dataset and restores most of the accuracy lost to re-attachment.

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  • [1]REFIT: Recognize, Fix, and Test Wearable Sensor Placement Shifts without Labels
    arXiv (AI, ML, NLP, CV, robotics, multi-agent) · Oct 6, 06:49 PM
    We present REFIT, an input calibration for frozen activity-recognition models whose inertial sensors are worn differently at deployment than in training.
    When users move a watch to the other wrist or put a strap sensor back on turned, the model sees the same motion on changed axes.

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