scholarly journals Neural Network Ensembles for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition Within Smart Environments

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Irvine ◽  
Chris Nugent ◽  
Shuai Zhang ◽  
Hui Wang ◽  
Wing W. Y. NG
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Conflict Resolution ◽  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Human Activity Recognition ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Smart Environments ◽  
Class Level

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.

scholarly journals UCAmI Cup. Analyzing the UJA Human Activity Recognition Dataset of Activities of Daily Living

Proceedings ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (19) ◽  
pp. 1267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Macarena Espinilla ◽  
Javier Medina ◽  
Chris Nugent
Keyword(s):  
Activities Of Daily Living ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Daily Living ◽  
Human Activity Recognition ◽  
Proximity Data ◽  
Location Data ◽  
Smart Watch ◽  
Real World Applications ◽  
Tools And Techniques

Many real-world applications, which are focused on addressing the needs of a human, require information pertaining to the activities being performed. The UCAmI Cup is an event held within the context of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence, where delegates are given the opportunity to use their tools and techniques to analyse a previously unseen human activity recognition dataset and to compare their results with others working in the same domain. In this paper, the human activity recognition dataset used relates to activities of daily living generated in the UJAmI Smart Lab, University of Jaén. The dataset chosen for the first edition of the UCAmI Cup represents 246 activities performed over a period of ten days carried out by a single inhabitant. The dataset includes four data sources: (i) event streams from 30 binary sensors, (ii) intelligent floor location data, (iii) proximity data between a smart watch worn by the inhabitant and 15 Bluetooth Low Energy beacons and (iv) acceleration of the smart watch. In this first edition of the UCAmI Cup, 26 participants from 10 different countries contacted the organizers to obtain the dataset.‬‬‬‬‬

scholarly journals Recurrent Neural Network for Human Activity Recognition in Embedded Systems Using PPG and Accelerometer Data

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (14) ◽  
pp. 1715
Author(s):  
Michele Alessandrini ◽  
Giorgio Biagetti ◽  
Paolo Crippa ◽  
Laura Falaschetti ◽  
Claudio Turchetti
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Embedded System ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Recurrent Neural Network ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Low Complexity ◽  
Human Activity Recognition ◽  
Motion Artifacts ◽  
Accelerometer Data

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.

scholarly journals Wi-Sense: a passive human activity recognition system using Wi-Fi and convolutional neural network and its integration in health information systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Muaaz ◽  
Ali Chelli ◽  
Martin Wulf Gerdes ◽  
Matthias Pätzold
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Information Systems ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Health Information ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Health Information Systems ◽  
Recognition System ◽  
Human Activity Recognition ◽  
Ratio Method

AbstractA human activity recognition (HAR) system acts as the backbone of many human-centric applications, such as active assisted living and in-home monitoring for elderly and physically impaired people. Although existing Wi-Fi-based human activity recognition methods report good results, their performance is affected by the changes in the ambient environment. In this work, we present Wi-Sense—a human activity recognition system that uses a convolutional neural network (CNN) to recognize human activities based on the environment-independent fingerprints extracted from the Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI). First, Wi-Sense captures the CSI by using a standard Wi-Fi network interface card. Wi-Sense applies the CSI ratio method to reduce the noise and the impact of the phase offset. In addition, it applies the principal component analysis to remove redundant information. This step not only reduces the data dimension but also removes the environmental impact. Thereafter, we compute the processed data spectrogram which reveals environment-independent time-variant micro-Doppler fingerprints of the performed activity. We use these spectrogram images to train a CNN. We evaluate our approach by using a human activity data set collected from nine volunteers in an indoor environment. Our results show that Wi-Sense can recognize these activities with an overall accuracy of 97.78%. To stress on the applicability of the proposed Wi-Sense system, we provide an overview of the standards involved in the health information systems and systematically describe how Wi-Sense HAR system can be integrated into the eHealth infrastructure.

Human activity recognition using temporal convolutional neural network architecture

2021 ◽  
pp. 116287
Author(s):  
Yair A. Andrade-Ambriz ◽  
Sergio Ledesma ◽  
Mario-Alberto Ibarra-Manzano ◽  
Marvella I. Oros-Flores ◽  
Dora-Luz Almanza-Ojeda
Keyword(s):  
Neural Network ◽  
Convolutional Neural Network ◽  
Activity Recognition ◽  
Human Activity ◽  
Network Architecture ◽  
Human Activity Recognition ◽  
Neural Network Architecture
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