Tag: activity recognition

Feature Learning using Convolutional Denoising Autoencoder for Activity Recognition

The hand-crafted (time and frequency-based) features that are extracted and selected are heuristic and rely on expert knowledge of the domain. The features may be effective in certain specific settings, but the same features might fail to discriminate the activities in a more general environment. Furthermore, hand-crafted feature extraction and selection are time-consuming, laborious and […]

A Unified Generative Model using Generative Adversarial Network for Activity Recognition

One of the important factors of high accuracy of deep learning is the sufficient amount of training data. A robust and reliable model needs a vast amount of data to precisely capture the underlying pattern of the data. However, data collection in activity recognition is expensive and time-consuming especially from the elderly people. In this […]

Activity Recognition using Convolutional Neural Network

Aging and dependent population is recognized as a major social and economic issues for the coming decades. According to World Health Organization, it is estimated that there will be 2 billion people of age 60 and older by 2050 [1]. Physical activity plays a major role in healthy ageing and one of the requirement to […]

Ontology-based sensor fusion for activity recognition

Context-aware activity recognition systems are dealing with heterogeneous sensors and these sensors are providing data at different sampling rate and output forms. Wearable sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes provide fast and real-time raw data which has to be interpreted before being useful to the application. Whereas ambient sensors such as temperature, humidity or object-interaction […]

Adaptive Sliding Window for Physical Activity Recognition

A sliding window with a fixed size is not an effective approach for activity recognition system. Misclassifications could still happen especially for transitional activities. This is due to the fact that the length of transitional activity signals varies depending on the time to complete the activity [1], [2]. To overcome the problem, the window size […]

Enhancing ontological reasoning with uncertainty handling for activity recognition

Handling uncertainty is a challenge in activity recognition. Uncertainty can be due to sensor errors (e.g. run out of batteries, imprecise outputs, missing activations etc.) and communication failures. and variability in human activities. These issues may significantly influence the accuracy of activity recognition. Data-driven approaches use machine learning techniques such as Decision Tree, naïve Bayes […]

Evaluation of accelerometer based multi-sensor versus single-sensor activity recognition systems

The paper describes the comparison of activity recognition system consisting of a single accelerometer sensor and multiple accelerometer sensors. The paper also presented the influence of sampling rate towards recognition accuracies, most widely used features in this research area and the time take to calculate them, and comparison between classifiers in activity recognition. The result […]

Features Extraction

Ravi et al. extracted features from raw data using a window size of 256 samples with 128 overlapping between consecutive windows. Sampling rate used is 50Hz which equivalent to 5.12s for each window. The calculated features are mean, standard deviation, energy and correlation. A single triaxial accelerometer was worn near the pelvic region in the […]

Body Area Sensor Networks: Requirements, Operations, and Challenges

B. Johny and A. Anpalagan suggested health-care monitoring challenges can be tackled by interfacing sensors and actuators which form body area networks (BANs) with the human body together with the support of wireless technology and mobile and cloud computing [1]. Three stages of health-care monitoring system have been defined, which are sensors, data hub and […]