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In-the-wild respiratory rate monitoring is currently done using dedicated chest band sensors, but these devices are specialized, expensive and cumbersome to wear day after day. While recent works have proposed using smartwatch based accelerometer and gyroscope data for respiratory rate monitoring, current methods are unreliable and inaccurate in the presence of motion and have therefore only been applied in controlled or low-motion settings. Thus, measuring respiratory rate in the wild remains a challenge.<\/jats:p>\n          <jats:p>We observe that for many applications, having fewer accurate readings is better than having more, less accurate readings. Based on this, we develop WearBreathing, a novel system for respiratory rate monitoring. WearBreathing consists of a machine learning based filter that detects and rejects sensor data that are not suitable for respiratory rate extraction and a convolutional neural network model for extracting respiratory rate from accelerometer and gyroscope data. Using a diverse, out-of-the-lab dataset that we collected, we show that WearBreathing has a 2.5 to 5.8 times lower mean absolute error (MAE) than existing approaches. We show that WearBreathing is tunable and by changing a single threshold value, it can, for example, deliver a reading every 50 seconds with a MAE of 2.05 breaths\/min or a reading every 5 minutes with an MAE of 1.09 breaths\/min. 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