scholarly journals Feature Space Analysis for Human Activity Recognition in Smart Environments

Author(s):  
Eris Chinellato ◽  
David C. Hogg ◽  
Anthony G. Cohn
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (23) ◽  
pp. 8474
Author(s):  
Ibrahim Furkan Ince

Human activity recognition (HAR) has been an active area in computer vision with a broad range of applications, such as education, security surveillance, and healthcare. HAR is a general time series classification problem. LSTMs are widely used for time series classification tasks. However, they work well with high-dimensional feature vectors, which reduce the processing speed of LSTM in real-time applications. Therefore, dimension reduction is required to create low-dimensional feature space. As it is experimented in previous study, LSTM with dimension reduction yielded the worst performance among other classifiers, which are not deep learning methods. Therefore, in this paper, a novel scale and rotation invariant human activity recognition system, which can also work in low dimensional feature space is presented. For this purpose, Kinect depth sensor is employed to obtain skeleton joints. Since angles are used, proposed system is already scale invariant. In order to provide rotation invariance, body relative direction in egocentric coordinates is calculated. The 3D vector between right hip and left hip is used to get the horizontal axis and its cross product with the vertical axis of global coordinate system assumed to be the depth axis of the proposed local coordinate system. Instead of using 3D joint angles, 8 number of limbs and their corresponding 3D angles with X, Y, and Z axes of the proposed coordinate system are compressed with several dimension reduction methods such as averaging filter, Haar wavelet transform (HWT), and discrete cosine transform (DCT) and employed as the feature vector. Finally, extracted features are trained and tested with LSTM (long short-term memory) network, which is an artificial recurrent neural network (RNN) architecture. Experimental and benchmarking results indicate that proposed framework boosts the performance of LSTM by approximately 30% accuracy in low-dimensional feature space.


2015 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vijay Borges ◽  
Wilson Jeberson

Activity recognition is a complex task of the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) domain with ever-increasing research interest. Human activity recognition has been specially addressed by the advances in pattern recognition. k-Nearest Neighbors(kNN) is a non-parametric classifier from pattern recognition theory, that mimics human decision making by taking previous experiences into consideration for segregating unknown objects. A novel fuzzy-rough model, based on granular computing for improvisation of the kNN classifier is proposed herewith. In this model, feature-wise fuzzy memberships are generated to fuzzify the feature space of the nearest neighbors of the test object. These neighbors fuzzified feature space are then aggregated into granules, based on their class-belongingness. From these, lower and upper approximation granules are generated using rough set theory to classify the test object. It is shown experimentally that this model outperforms the traditional kNN by 16.43% and Fuzzy-kNN by 10.25%, in the human activity recognition domain. Another novelty is in the efficient use of the fuzzy similarity relations in class-dependent granulated feature space, and, fuzzy-rough lower/upper approximations in the hybridization of the kNN classifier.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (19) ◽  
pp. 6434
Author(s):  
Changjun Fan ◽  
Fei Gao

The study of human activity recognition (HAR) plays an important role in many areas such as healthcare, entertainment, sports, and smart homes. With the development of wearable electronics and wireless communication technologies, activity recognition using inertial sensors from ubiquitous smart mobile devices has drawn wide attention and become a research hotspot. Before recognition, the sensor signals are typically preprocessed and segmented, and then representative features are extracted and selected based on them. Considering the issues of limited resources of wearable devices and the curse of dimensionality, it is vital to generate the best feature combination which maximizes the performance and efficiency of the following mapping from feature subsets to activities. In this paper, we propose to integrate bee swarm optimization (BSO) with a deep Q-network to perform feature selection and present a hybrid feature selection methodology, BAROQUE, on basis of these two schemes. Following the wrapper approach, BAROQUE leverages the appealing properties from BSO and the multi-agent deep Q-network (DQN) to determine feature subsets and adopts a classifier to evaluate these solutions. In BAROQUE, the BSO is employed to strike a balance between exploitation and exploration for the search of feature space, while the DQN takes advantage of the merits of reinforcement learning to make the local search process more adaptive and more efficient. Extensive experiments were conducted on some benchmark datasets collected by smartphones or smartwatches, and the metrics were compared with those of BSO, DQN, and some other previously published methods. The results show that BAROQUE achieves an accuracy of 98.41% for the UCI-HAR dataset and takes less time to converge to a good solution than other methods, such as CFS, SFFS, and Relief-F, yielding quite promising results in terms of accuracy and efficiency.


Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Irvine ◽  
Chris Nugent ◽  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Hui Wang ◽  
Wing W. Y. NG

In this paper, we focus on data-driven approaches to human activity recognition (HAR). Data-driven approaches rely on good quality data during training, however, a shortage of high quality, large-scale, and accurately annotated HAR datasets exists for recognizing activities of daily living (ADLs) within smart environments. The contributions of this paper involve improving the quality of an openly available HAR dataset for the purpose of data-driven HAR and proposing a new ensemble of neural networks as a data-driven HAR classifier. Specifically, we propose a homogeneous ensemble neural network approach for the purpose of recognizing activities of daily living within a smart home setting. Four base models were generated and integrated using a support function fusion method which involved computing an output decision score for each base classifier. The contribution of this work also involved exploring several approaches to resolving conflicts between the base models. Experimental results demonstrated that distributing data at a class level greatly reduces the number of conflicts that occur between the base models, leading to an increased performance prior to the application of conflict resolution techniques. Overall, the best HAR performance of 80.39% was achieved through distributing data at a class level in conjunction with a conflict resolution approach, which involved calculating the difference between the highest and second highest predictions per conflicting model and awarding the final decision to the model with the highest differential value.


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