scholarly journals A Robust Feature Extraction Model for Human Activity Characterization Using 3-Axis Accelerometer and Gyroscope Data

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (23) ◽  
pp. 6990
Author(s):  
Rasel Ahmed Bhuiyan ◽  
Nadeem Ahmed ◽  
Md Amiruzzaman ◽  
Md Rashedul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Feature Extraction ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Frequency Domain Analysis ◽  
Human Activity Recognition ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Linear Discriminant ◽  
Benchmark Datasets ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Extraction Model

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using embedded sensors in smartphones and smartwatch has gained popularity in extensive applications in health care monitoring of elderly people, security purpose, robotics, monitoring employees in the industry, and others. However, human behavior analysis using the accelerometer and gyroscope data are typically grounded on supervised classification techniques, where models are showing sub-optimal performance for qualitative and quantitative features. Considering this factor, this paper proposes an efficient and reduce dimension feature extraction model for human activity recognition. In this feature extraction technique, the Enveloped Power Spectrum (EPS) is used for extracting impulse components of the signal using frequency domain analysis which is more robust and noise insensitive. The Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) is used as dimensionality reduction procedure to extract the minimum number of discriminant features from envelop spectrum for human activity recognition (HAR). The extracted features are used for human activity recognition using Multi-class Support Vector Machine (MCSVM). The proposed model was evaluated by using two benchmark datasets, i.e., the UCI-HAR and DU-MD datasets. This model is compared with other state-of-the-art methods and the model is outperformed.

scholarly journals HARTH: A Human Activity Recognition Dataset for Machine Learning

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (23) ◽  
pp. 7853
Author(s):  
Aleksej Logacjov ◽  
Kerstin Bach ◽  
Atle Kongsvold ◽  
Hilde Bremseth Bårdstu ◽  
Paul Jarle Mork
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Machine Learning ◽  
Support Vector Machine ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Human Activity Recognition ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Free Living

Existing accelerometer-based human activity recognition (HAR) benchmark datasets that were recorded during free living suffer from non-fixed sensor placement, the usage of only one sensor, and unreliable annotations. We make two contributions in this work. First, we present the publicly available Human Activity Recognition Trondheim dataset (HARTH). Twenty-two participants were recorded for 90 to 120 min during their regular working hours using two three-axial accelerometers, attached to the thigh and lower back, and a chest-mounted camera. Experts annotated the data independently using the camera’s video signal and achieved high inter-rater agreement (Fleiss’ Kappa =0.96). They labeled twelve activities. The second contribution of this paper is the training of seven different baseline machine learning models for HAR on our dataset. We used a support vector machine, k-nearest neighbor, random forest, extreme gradient boost, convolutional neural network, bidirectional long short-term memory, and convolutional neural network with multi-resolution blocks. The support vector machine achieved the best results with an F1-score of 0.81 (standard deviation: ±0.18), recall of 0.85±0.13, and precision of 0.79±0.22 in a leave-one-subject-out cross-validation. Our highly professional recordings and annotations provide a promising benchmark dataset for researchers to develop innovative machine learning approaches for precise HAR in free living.

scholarly journals Comparison of Different Sets of Features for Human Activity Recognition by Wearable Sensors

Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 4189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Samanta Rosati ◽  
Gabriella Balestra ◽  
Marco Knaflitz
Keyword(s):  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
Human Activity Recognition ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Time Frequency ◽  
Security Applications ◽  
Biomechanical Behavior ◽  
Area Of Interest ◽  
Open Point

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) refers to an emerging area of interest for medical, military, and security applications. However, the identification of the features to be used for activity classification and recognition is still an open point. The aim of this study was to compare two different feature sets for HAR. Particularly, we compared a set including time, frequency, and time-frequency domain features widely used in literature (FeatSet_A) with a set of time-domain features derived by considering the physical meaning of the acquired signals (FeatSet_B). The comparison of the two sets were based on the performances obtained using four machine learning classifiers. Sixty-one healthy subjects were asked to perform seven different daily activities wearing a MIMU-based device. Each signal was segmented using a 5-s window and for each window, 222 and 221 variables were extracted for the FeatSet_A and FeatSet_B respectively. Each set was reduced using a Genetic Algorithm (GA) simultaneously performing feature selection and classifier optimization. Our results showed that Support Vector Machine achieved the highest performances using both sets (97.1% and 96.7% for FeatSet_A and FeatSet_B respectively). However, FeatSet_B allows to better understand alterations of the biomechanical behavior in more complex situations, such as when applied to pathological subjects.

scholarly journals Asymmetric Residual Neural Network for Accurate Human Activity Recognition

Information ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
pp. 203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Long ◽  
Wuqing Sun ◽  
Zhan Yang ◽  
Osolo Ian Raymond
Keyword(s):  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Time Window ◽  
Research Problem ◽  
Human Activity Recognition ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Benchmark Datasets ◽  
High Level

Human activity recognition (HAR) using deep neural networks has become a hot topic in human–computer interaction. Machines can effectively identify human naturalistic activities by learning from a large collection of sensor data. Activity recognition is not only an interesting research problem but also has many real-world practical applications. Based on the success of residual networks in achieving a high level of aesthetic representation of automatic learning, we propose a novel asymmetric residual network, named ARN. ARN is implemented using two identical path frameworks consisting of (1) a short time window, which is used to capture spatial features, and (2) a long time window, which is used to capture fine temporal features. The long time window path can be made very lightweight by reducing its channel capacity, while still being able to learn useful temporal representations for activity recognition. In this paper, we mainly focus on proposing a new model to improve the accuracy of HAR. In order to demonstrate the effectiveness of the ARN model, we carried out extensive experiments on benchmark datasets (i.e., OPPORTUNITY, UniMiB-SHAR) and compared the results with some conventional and state-of-the-art learning-based methods. We discuss the influence of networks parameters on performance to provide insights about its optimization. Results from our experiments show that ARN is effective in recognizing human activities via wearable datasets.

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