A general framework for sensor-based human activity recognition.
Title | A general framework for sensor-based human activity recognition. |
Publication Type | Journal Article |
Year of Publication | 2018 |
Authors | Köping L., Shirahama K., Grzegorzek M. |
Journal | Computers in biology and medicine |
Volume | 95 |
Pages | 248-260 |
Date Published | 2018 04 01 |
Publication Language | eng |
ISSN | 1879-0534 |
Abstract | Today's wearable devices like smartphones, smartwatches and intelligent glasses collect a large amount of data from their built-in sensors like accelerometers and gyroscopes. These data can be used to identify a person's current activity and in turn can be utilised for applications in the field of personal fitness assistants or elderly care. However, developing such systems is subject to certain restrictions: (i) since more and more new sensors will be available in the future, activity recognition systems should be able to integrate these new sensors with a small amount of manual effort and (ii) such systems should avoid high acquisition costs for computational power. We propose a general framework that achieves an effective data integration based on the following two characteristics: Firstly, a smartphone is used to gather and temporally store data from different sensors and transfer these data to a central server. Thus, various sensors can be integrated into the system as long as they have programming interfaces to communicate with the smartphone. The second characteristic is a codebook-based feature learning approach that can encode data from each sensor into an effective feature vector only by tuning a few intuitive parameters. In the experiments, the framework is realised as a real-time activity recognition system that integrates eight sensors from a smartphone, smartwatch and smartglasses, and its effectiveness is validated from different perspectives such as accuracies, sensor combinations and sampling rates. |
DOI | 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2017.12.025 |
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Alternate Journal | Comput. Biol. Med. |