Exploring Appropriate Clusters in Subspace for Human Activity Recognition

Photoplethysmography (PPG) is a common and practical technique to detect human activity and other physiological parameters and is commonly implemented in wearable devices. However, the PPG signal is often severely corrupted by motion artifacts. The aim of this paper is to address the human activity recognition (HAR) task directly on the device, implementing a recurrent neural network (RNN) in a low cost, low power microcontroller, ensuring the required performance in terms of accuracy and low complexity. To reach this goal, (i) we first develop an RNN, which integrates PPG and tri-axial accelerometer data, where these data can be used to compensate motion artifacts in PPG in order to accurately detect human activity; (ii) then, we port the RNN to an embedded device, Cloud-JAM L4, based on an STM32 microcontroller, optimizing it to maintain an accuracy of over 95% while requiring modest computational power and memory resources. The experimental results show that such a system can be effectively implemented on a constrained-resource system, allowing the design of a fully autonomous wearable embedded system for human activity recognition and logging.

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Attention-Driven Body Pose Encoding for Human Activity Recognition

2020 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR) ◽

10.1109/icpr48806.2021.9412487 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Bappaditya Debnath ◽

Mary O'Brient ◽

Swagat Kumar ◽

Ardhendu Behera

Keyword(s):

Activity Recognition ◽

Human Activity ◽

Human Activity Recognition

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Towards Environment-Independent Human Activity Recognition using Deep Learning and Enhanced CSI

GLOBECOM 2020 - 2020 IEEE Global Communications Conference ◽

10.1109/globecom42002.2020.9322627 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Zhenguo Shi ◽

J. Andrew Zhang ◽

Richard Xu ◽

Qingqing Cheng ◽

Andre Pearce

Keyword(s):

Deep Learning ◽

Activity Recognition ◽

Human Activity ◽

Human Activity Recognition

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Similarity Embedding Networks for Robust Human Activity Recognition

ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data ◽

10.1145/3448021 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 15 (6) ◽

pp. 1-17

Author(s):

Chenglin Li ◽

Carrie Lu Tong ◽

Di Niu ◽

Bei Jiang ◽

Xiao Zuo ◽

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Keyword(s):

Activity Recognition ◽

Human Activity ◽

Short Term Memory ◽

Real Space ◽

Human Activity Recognition ◽

Sensor Data ◽

Activity Data ◽

Extensive Evaluation ◽

Sensor Signals ◽

Public Datasets

Deep learning models for human activity recognition (HAR) based on sensor data have been heavily studied recently. However, the generalization ability of deep models on complex real-world HAR data is limited by the availability of high-quality labeled activity data, which are hard to obtain. In this article, we design a similarity embedding neural network that maps input sensor signals onto real vectors through carefully designed convolutional and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) layers. The embedding network is trained with a pairwise similarity loss, encouraging the clustering of samples from the same class in the embedded real space, and can be effectively trained on a small dataset and even on a noisy dataset with mislabeled samples. Based on the learned embeddings, we further propose both nonparametric and parametric approaches for activity recognition. Extensive evaluation based on two public datasets has shown that the proposed similarity embedding network significantly outperforms state-of-the-art deep models on HAR classification tasks, is robust to mislabeled samples in the training set, and can also be used to effectively denoise a noisy dataset.

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