scholarly journals Inclusive Human Intention Prediction with Wearable Sensors: Machine Learning Techniques for the Reaching Task Use Case

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Leonardo Archetti ◽  
Federica Ragni ◽  
Ludovic Saint-Bauzel ◽  
Agnès Roby-Brami ◽  
Cinzia Amici
Keyword(s):  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
Reaching Task ◽  
Electromagnetic Sensors ◽  
Sample Dimension ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Prediction Time ◽  
Rf Performance

Human intentions prediction is gaining importance with the increase in human–robot interaction challenges in several contexts, such as industrial and clinical. This paper compares Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Random Forest (RF) performance in predicting the intention of moving towards a target during reaching movements on ten subjects wearing four electromagnetic sensors. LDA and RF prediction accuracy is compared to observation-sample dimension and noise presence, training and prediction time. Both algorithms achieved good accuracy, which improves as the sample dimension increases, although LDA presents better results for the current dataset.

scholarly journals Ablation Analysis to Select Wearable Sensors for Classifying Standing, Walking, and Running

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Sarah Gonzalez ◽  
Paul Stegall ◽  
Harvey Edwards ◽  
Leia Stirling ◽  
Ho Chit Siu
Keyword(s):  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Principal Components ◽  
Classification Accuracy ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Measurement Units ◽  
The Difference

The field of human activity recognition (HAR) often utilizes wearable sensors and machine learning techniques in order to identify the actions of the subject. This paper considers the activity recognition of walking and running while using a support vector machine (SVM) that was trained on principal components derived from wearable sensor data. An ablation analysis is performed in order to select the subset of sensors that yield the highest classification accuracy. The paper also compares principal components across trials to inform the similarity of the trials. Five subjects were instructed to perform standing, walking, running, and sprinting on a self-paced treadmill, and the data were recorded while using surface electromyography sensors (sEMGs), inertial measurement units (IMUs), and force plates. When all of the sensors were included, the SVM had over 90% classification accuracy using only the first three principal components of the data with the classes of stand, walk, and run/sprint (combined run and sprint class). It was found that sensors that were placed only on the lower leg produce higher accuracies than sensors placed on the upper leg. There was a small decrease in accuracy when the force plates are ablated, but the difference may not be operationally relevant. Using only accelerometers without sEMGs was shown to decrease the accuracy of the SVM.

ApneaDetector

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Xianda Chen ◽  
Yifei Xiao ◽  
Yeming Tang ◽  
Julio Fernandez-Mendoza ◽  
Guohong Cao
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Sleep Apnea ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Clinical Test ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Apnea Detection ◽  
Hospital Visits ◽  
Calibration Techniques ◽  
Data Calibration

Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder in which breathing is briefly and repeatedly interrupted. Polysomnography (PSG) is the standard clinical test for diagnosing sleep apnea. However, it is expensive and time-consuming which requires hospital visits, specialized wearable sensors, professional installations, and long waiting lists. To address this problem, we design a smartwatch-based system called ApneaDetector, which exploits the built-in sensors in smartwatches to detect sleep apnea. Through a clinical study, we identify features of sleep apnea captured by smartwatch, which can be leveraged by machine learning techniques for sleep apnea detection. However, there are many technical challenges such as how to extract various special patterns from the noisy and multi-axis sensing data. To address these challenges, we propose signal denoising and data calibration techniques to process the noisy data while preserving the peaks and troughs which reflect the possible apnea events. We identify the characteristics of sleep apnea such as signal spikes which can be captured by smartwatch, and propose methods to extract proper features to train machine learning models for apnea detection. Through extensive experimental evaluations, we demonstrate that our system can detect apnea events with high precision (0.9674), recall (0.9625), and F1-score (0.9649).

Application of Ensemble Models in Credit Scoring Models

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-141
Author(s):  
Anjali Chopra ◽  
Priyanka Bhilare
Keyword(s):  
Decision Tree ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Credit Scoring ◽  
Bank Loan ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Risk Scores ◽  
Gradient Boosting ◽  
Loan Default ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
Learning Techniques

Loan default is a serious problem in banking industries. Banking systems have strong processes in place for identification of customers with poor credit risk scores; however, most of the credit scoring models need to be constantly updated with newer variables and statistical techniques for improved accuracy. While totally eliminating default is almost impossible, loan risk teams, however, minimize the rate of default, thereby protecting banks from the adverse effects of loan default. Credit scoring models have used logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis for identification of potential defaulters. Newer and contemporary machine learning techniques have the ability to outperform classic old age techniques. This article aims to conduct empirical analysis on publically available bank loan dataset to study banking loan default using decision tree as the base learner and comparing it with ensemble tree learning techniques such as bagging, boosting, and random forests. The results of the empirical analysis suggest that the gradient boosting model outperforms the base decision tree learner, indicating that ensemble model works better than individual models. The study recommends that the risk team should adopt newer contemporary techniques to achieve better accuracy resulting in effective loan recovery strategies.

scholarly journals Study of Machine Learning Techniques for EEG Eye State Detection

Proceedings ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 53
Author(s):  
Francisco Laport ◽  
Paula M. Castro ◽  
Adriana Dapena ◽  
Francisco J. Vazquez-Araujo ◽  
Daniel Iglesia
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Mental States ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Discrete Wavelet ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
State Identification ◽  
Brain Signals ◽  
State Classification ◽  
Learning Techniques

A comparison of different machine learning techniques for eye state identification through Electroencephalography (EEG) signals is presented in this paper. (1) Background: We extend our previous work by studying several techniques for the extraction of the features corresponding to the mental states of open and closed eyes and their subsequent classification; (2) Methods: A prototype developed by the authors is used to capture the brain signals. We consider the Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) and the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT) for feature extraction; Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) for state classification; and Independent Component Analysis (ICA) for preprocessing the data; (3) Results: The results obtained from some subjects show the good performance of the proposed methods; and (4) Conclusion: The combination of several techniques allows us to obtain a high accuracy of eye identification.

scholarly journals Newspaper Article Classification using Machine Learning Techniques

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 872-877
Keyword(s):  
Neural Networks ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Convolutional Neural Networks ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Learning Approach ◽  
Training Time ◽  
Time Prediction ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Prediction Time ◽  
Newspaper Articles

Newspaper articles offer us insights on several news. They can be one of many categories like sports, politics, Science and Technology etc. Text classification is a need of the day as large uncategorized data is the problem everywhere. Through this study, We intend to compare several algorithms along with data preprocessing approaches to classify the newspaper articles into their respective categories. Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN) is a deep learning approach which is currently a strong competitor to other classification algorithms like SVM, Naive Bayes and KNN. We hence intend to implement Convolutional Neural Networks - a deep learning approach to classify our newspaper articles, develop an understanding of all the algorithms implemented and compare their results. We also attempt to compare the training time, prediction time and accuracies of all the algorithms.

scholarly journals Redefining Safety in Light of Human-Robot Interaction: A Critical Review of Current Standards and Regulations

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alberto Martinetti ◽  
Peter K. Chemweno ◽  
Kostas Nizamis ◽  
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Physical Interaction ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
Standards And Regulations ◽  
Physical Impact ◽  
Definition Of

Policymakers need to consider the impacts that robots and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have on humans beyond physical safety. Traditionally, the definition of safety has been interpreted to exclusively apply to risks that have a physical impact on persons’ safety, such as, among others, mechanical or chemical risks. However, the current understanding is that the integration of AI in cyber-physical systems such as robots, thus increasing interconnectivity with several devices and cloud services, and influencing the growing human-robot interaction challenges how safety is currently conceptualised rather narrowly. Thus, to address safety comprehensively, AI demands a broader understanding of safety, extending beyond physical interaction, but covering aspects such as cybersecurity, and mental health. Moreover, the expanding use of machine learning techniques will more frequently demand evolving safety mechanisms to safeguard the substantial modifications taking place over time as robots embed more AI features. In this sense, our contribution brings forward the different dimensions of the concept of safety, including interaction (physical and social), psychosocial, cybersecurity, temporal, and societal. These dimensions aim to help policy and standard makers redefine the concept of safety in light of robots and AI’s increasing capabilities, including human-robot interactions, cybersecurity, and machine learning.

scholarly journals Deep learning and model personalization in sensor-based human activity recognition

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ferrari ◽  
Daniela Micucci ◽  
Marco Mobilio ◽  
Paolo Napoletano
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Deep Learning ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Human Activity Recognition ◽  
Population Diversity ◽  
Machine Learning Algorithms ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Learning Techniques

AbstractHuman activity recognition (HAR) is a line of research whose goal is to design and develop automatic techniques for recognizing activities of daily living (ADLs) using signals from sensors. HAR is an active research filed in response to the ever-increasing need to collect information remotely related to ADLs for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes. Traditionally, HAR used environmental or wearable sensors to acquire signals and relied on traditional machine-learning techniques to classify ADLs. In recent years, HAR is moving towards the use of both wearable devices (such as smartphones or fitness trackers, since they are daily used by people and they include reliable inertial sensors), and deep learning techniques (given the encouraging results obtained in the area of computer vision). One of the major challenges related to HAR is population diversity, which makes difficult traditional machine-learning algorithms to generalize. Recently, researchers successfully attempted to address the problem by proposing techniques based on personalization combined with traditional machine learning. To date, no effort has been directed at investigating the benefits that personalization can bring in deep learning techniques in the HAR domain. The goal of our research is to verify if personalization applied to both traditional and deep learning techniques can lead to better performance than classical approaches (i.e., without personalization). The experiments were conducted on three datasets that are extensively used in the literature and that contain metadata related to the subjects. AdaBoost is the technique chosen for traditional machine learning, while convolutional neural network is the one chosen for deep learning. These techniques have shown to offer good performance. Personalization considers both the physical characteristics of the subjects and the inertial signals generated by the subjects. Results suggest that personalization is most effective when applied to traditional machine-learning techniques rather than to deep learning ones. Moreover, results show that deep learning without personalization performs better than any other methods experimented in the paper in those cases where the number of training samples is high and samples are heterogeneous (i.e., they represent a wider spectrum of the population). This suggests that traditional deep learning can be more effective, provided you have a large and heterogeneous dataset, intrinsically modeling the population diversity in the training process.

scholarly journals A Classification Approach for Predicting COVID-19 Patient Survival Outcome with Machine Learning Techniques

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdulhameed Ado Osi ◽  
Hussaini Garba Dikko ◽  
Mannir Abdu ◽  
Auwalu Ibrahim ◽  
Lawan Adamu Isma'il ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Survival Outcome ◽  
Supervised Machine Learning ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
P Value ◽  
Kappa Index ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
Learning Techniques

COVID-19 is an infectious disease discovered after the outbreak began in Wuhan, China, in December 2019. COVID-19 is still becoming an increasing global threat to public health. The virus has been escalated to many countries across the globe. This paper analyzed and compared the performance of three different supervised machine learning techniques; Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Random Forest (RF), and Support Vector Machine (SVM) on COVID-19 dataset. The best level of accuracy between these three algorithms was determined by comparison of some metrics for assessing predictive performance such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, F-score, Kappa index, and ROC. From the analysis results, RF was found to be the best algorithm with 100% prediction accuracy in comparison with LDA and SVM with 95.2% and 90.9% respectively. Our analysis shows that out of these three classification models RF predicts COVID-19 patient's survival outcome with the highest accuracy. Chi-square test reveals that all the seven features except sex were significantly correlated with the COVID-19 patient's outcome (P-value < 0.005). Therefore, RF was recommended for COVID-19 patient outcome prediction that will help in early identification of possible sensitive cases for quick provision of quality health care, support and supervision.

scholarly journals Teaching robots social autonomy from in situ human guidance

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (35) ◽  
pp. eaat1186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Senft ◽  
Séverin Lemaignan ◽  
Paul E. Baxter ◽  
Madeleine Bartlett ◽  
Tony Belpaeme
Keyword(s):  
Autonomous Systems ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Machine Learning Techniques ◽  
Generic Properties ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Learning Techniques ◽  
The One ◽  
The Right ◽  
Social Autonomy

Striking the right balance between robot autonomy and human control is a core challenge in social robotics, in both technical and ethical terms. On the one hand, extended robot autonomy offers the potential for increased human productivity and for the off-loading of physical and cognitive tasks. On the other hand, making the most of human technical and social expertise, as well as maintaining accountability, is highly desirable. This is particularly relevant in domains such as medical therapy and education, where social robots hold substantial promise, but where there is a high cost to poorly performing autonomous systems, compounded by ethical concerns. We present a field study in which we evaluate SPARC (supervised progressively autonomous robot competencies), an innovative approach addressing this challenge whereby a robot progressively learns appropriate autonomous behavior from in situ human demonstrations and guidance. Using online machine learning techniques, we demonstrate that the robot could effectively acquire legible and congruent social policies in a high-dimensional child-tutoring situation needing only a limited number of demonstrations while preserving human supervision whenever desirable. By exploiting human expertise, our technique enables rapid learning of autonomous social and domain-specific policies in complex and nondeterministic environments. Last, we underline the generic properties of SPARC and discuss how this paradigm is relevant to a broad range of difficult human-robot interaction scenarios.

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