scholarly journals Enhanced Human Activity Recognition Based on Smartphone Sensor Data Using Hybrid Feature Selection Model

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 317 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadeem Ahmed ◽  
Jahir Ibna Rafiq ◽  
Md Rashedul Islam

Human activity recognition (HAR) techniques are playing a significant role in monitoring the daily activities of human life such as elderly care, investigation activities, healthcare, sports, and smart homes. Smartphones incorporated with varieties of motion sensors like accelerometers and gyroscopes are widely used inertial sensors that can identify different physical conditions of human. In recent research, many works have been done regarding human activity recognition. Sensor data of smartphone produces high dimensional feature vectors for identifying human activities. However, all the vectors are not contributing equally for identification process. Including all feature vectors create a phenomenon known as ‘curse of dimensionality’. This research has proposed a hybrid method feature selection process, which includes a filter and wrapper method. The process uses a sequential floating forward search (SFFS) to extract desired features for better activity recognition. Features are then fed to a multiclass support vector machine (SVM) to create nonlinear classifiers by adopting the kernel trick for training and testing purpose. We validated our model with a benchmark dataset. Our proposed system works efficiently with limited hardware resource and provides satisfactory activity identification.

Entropy ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 23 (8) ◽  
pp. 1065
Author(s):  
Ahmed Mohamed Helmi ◽  
Mohammed A. A. Al-qaness ◽  
Abdelghani Dahou ◽  
Robertas Damaševičius ◽  
Tomas Krilavičius  ◽  
...  

Human activity recognition (HAR) plays a vital role in different real-world applications such as in tracking elderly activities for elderly care services, in assisted living environments, smart home interactions, healthcare monitoring applications, electronic games, and various human–computer interaction (HCI) applications, and is an essential part of the Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT) services. However, the high dimensionality of the collected data from these applications has the largest influence on the quality of the HAR model. Therefore, in this paper, we propose an efficient HAR system using a lightweight feature selection (FS) method to enhance the HAR classification process. The developed FS method, called GBOGWO, aims to improve the performance of the Gradient-based optimizer (GBO) algorithm by using the operators of the grey wolf optimizer (GWO). First, GBOGWO is used to select the appropriate features; then, the support vector machine (SVM) is used to classify the activities. To assess the performance of GBOGWO, extensive experiments using well-known UCI-HAR and WISDM datasets were conducted. Overall outcomes show that GBOGWO improved the classification accuracy with an average accuracy of 98%.


Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 416 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Chen ◽  
Shurui Fan ◽  
Vikram Kumar ◽  
Yating Jia

Human activity recognition (HAR) has been increasingly used in medical care, behavior analysis, and entertainment industry to improve the experience of users. Most of the existing works use fixed models to identify various activities. However, they do not adapt well to the dynamic nature of human activities. We investigated the activity recognition with postural transition awareness. The inertial sensor data was processed by filters and we used both time domain and frequency domain of the signals to extract the feature set. For the corresponding posture classification, three feature selection algorithms were considered to select 585 features to obtain the optimal feature subset for the posture classification. And We adopted three classifiers (support vector machine, decision tree, and random forest) for comparative analysis. After experiments, the support vector machine gave better classification results than other two methods. By using the support vector machine, we could achieve up to 98% accuracy in the Multi-class classification. Finally, the results were verified by probability estimation.


2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mashhour M Bani Amer

Human activity recognition (HAR) systems are developed as aspect of a model to allow continual assessment of human behaviors in IoT environments in the areas of ambient assisted living, sports injury detection, elderly care, rehabilitation, and entertainment and close monitoring. Smartphones are already used to recognize activity. Most of the research done in this field placed a restriction on fixing the smartphone securely in a certain location on the human body, along with the machine learning system, to promote the process of classifying raw data from smartphone sensors to human activities. Smartwatches solve this limitation by placing them in a consistent position, which becomes steady and precisely sensitive to body movements. For this experiment, we evaluate both the accelerometer and the gyroscope sensor on the smartphone and the smartwatch, and decide which sensors hybrid does superiorly. Five daily physical human activities are evaluated using five classifiers from WEKA, in addition to Artificial Neural Network (ANN), K- Nearest Neighbor (KNN), and Support Vector Machine (SVM) algorithms builtin MATLAB 2018a. We used confusion matrix and random simulation to compare the accuracy and efficiency of those models. The results showed that the accelerometer sensors combination has the highest accuracy among other combinations and achieved an overall accuracy of 97.7% using SVM that gives the best performance among all other classifiers.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-8 ◽  
Author(s):  
Muhammad Latif Anjum ◽  
Stefano Rosa ◽  
Basilio Bona

We present a robust algorithm for complex human activity recognition for natural human-robot interaction. The algorithm is based on tracking the position of selected joints in human skeleton. For any given activity, only a few skeleton joints are involved in performing the activity, so a subset of joints contributing the most towards the activity is selected. Our approach of tracking a subset of skeleton joints (instead of tracking the whole skeleton) is computationally efficient and provides better recognition accuracy. We have developed both manual and automatic approaches for the selection of these joints. The position of the selected joints is tracked for the duration of the activity and is used to construct feature vectors for each activity. Once the feature vectors have been constructed, we use a Support Vector Machines (SVM) multiclass classifier for training and testing the algorithm. The algorithm has been tested on a purposely built dataset of depth videos recorded using Kinect camera. The dataset consists of 250 videos of 10 different activities being performed by different users. Experimental results show classification accuracy of 83% when tracking all skeleton joints, 95% when using manual selection of subset joints, and 89% when using automatic selection of subset joints.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (23) ◽  
pp. 7791
Author(s):  
Ge Gao ◽  
Zhixin Li ◽  
Zhan Huan ◽  
Ying Chen ◽  
Jiuzhen Liang ◽  
...  

With the rapid development of the computer and sensor field, inertial sensor data have been widely used in human activity recognition. At present, most relevant studies divide human activities into basic actions and transitional actions, in which basic actions are classified by unified features, while transitional actions usually use context information to determine the category. For the existing single method that cannot well realize human activity recognition, this paper proposes a human activity classification and recognition model based on smartphone inertial sensor data. The model fully considers the feature differences of different properties of actions, uses a fixed sliding window to segment the human activity data of inertial sensors with different attributes and, finally, extracts the features and recognizes them on different classifiers. The experimental results show that dynamic and transitional actions could obtain the best recognition performance on support vector machines, while static actions could obtain better classification effects on ensemble classifiers; as for feature selection, the frequency-domain feature used in dynamic action had a high recognition rate, up to 99.35%. When time-domain features were used for static and transitional actions, higher recognition rates were obtained, 98.40% and 91.98%, respectively.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Chenglin Li ◽  
Carrie Lu Tong ◽  
Di Niu ◽  
Bei Jiang ◽  
Xiao Zuo ◽  
...  

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.


Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 111
Author(s):  
Pengjia Tu ◽  
Junhuai Li ◽  
Huaijun Wang ◽  
Ting Cao ◽  
Kan Wang

Human activity recognition (HAR) has vital applications in human–computer interaction, somatosensory games, and motion monitoring, etc. On the basis of the human motion accelerate sensor data, through a nonlinear analysis of the human motion time series, a novel method for HAR that is based on non-linear chaotic features is proposed in this paper. First, the C-C method and G-P algorithm are used to, respectively, compute the optimal delay time and embedding dimension. Additionally, a Reconstructed Phase Space (RPS) is formed while using time-delay embedding for the human accelerometer motion sensor data. Subsequently, a two-dimensional chaotic feature matrix is constructed, where the chaotic feature is composed of the correlation dimension and largest Lyapunov exponent (LLE) of attractor trajectory in the RPS. Next, the classification algorithms are used in order to classify and recognize the two different activity classes, i.e., basic and transitional activities. The experimental results show that the chaotic feature has a higher accuracy than traditional time and frequency domain features.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 692
Author(s):  
Jingcheng Chen ◽  
Yining Sun ◽  
Shaoming Sun

Human activity recognition (HAR) is essential in many health-related fields. A variety of technologies based on different sensors have been developed for HAR. Among them, fusion from heterogeneous wearable sensors has been developed as it is portable, non-interventional and accurate for HAR. To be applied in real-time use with limited resources, the activity recognition system must be compact and reliable. This requirement can be achieved by feature selection (FS). By eliminating irrelevant and redundant features, the system burden is reduced with good classification performance (CP). This manuscript proposes a two-stage genetic algorithm-based feature selection algorithm with a fixed activation number (GFSFAN), which is implemented on the datasets with a variety of time, frequency and time-frequency domain features extracted from the collected raw time series of nine activities of daily living (ADL). Six classifiers are used to evaluate the effects of selected feature subsets from different FS algorithms on HAR performance. The results indicate that GFSFAN can achieve good CP with a small size. A sensor-to-segment coordinate calibration algorithm and lower-limb joint angle estimation algorithm are introduced. Experiments on the effect of the calibration and the introduction of joint angle on HAR shows that both of them can improve the CP.


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