scholarly journals Binary Sensors-Based Privacy-Preserved Activity Recognition of Elderly Living Alone Using an RNN

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (16) ◽  
pp. 5371
Author(s):  
Tan-Hsu Tan ◽  
Luubaatar Badarch ◽  
Wei-Xiang Zeng ◽  
Munkhjargal Gochoo ◽  
Fady S. Alnajjar ◽  
...  

The recent growth of the elderly population has led to the requirement for constant home monitoring as solitary living becomes popular. This protects older people who live alone from unwanted instances such as falling or deterioration caused by some diseases. However, although wearable devices and camera-based systems can provide relatively precise information about human motion, they invade the privacy of the elderly. One way to detect the abnormal behavior of elderly residents under the condition of maintaining privacy is to equip the resident’s house with an Internet of Things system based on a non-invasive binary motion sensor array. We propose to concatenate external features (previous activity and begin time-stamp) along with extracted features with a bi-directional long short-term memory (Bi-LSTM) neural network to recognize the activities of daily living with a higher accuracy. The concatenated features are classified by a fully connected neural network (FCNN). The proposed model was evaluated on open dataset from the Center for Advanced Studies in Adaptive Systems (CASAS) at Washington State University. The experimental results show that the proposed method outperformed state-of-the-art models with a margin of more than 6.25% of the F1 score on the same dataset.

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (6) ◽  
pp. 172988142096870
Author(s):  
Chenlei Xie ◽  
Daqing Wang ◽  
Haifeng Wu ◽  
Lifu Gao

With the growth of the number of elderly and disabled with motor dysfunction, the demand for assisted exercise is increasing. Wearable power assistance robots are developed to provide athletic ability of limbs for the elderly or the disabled who have weakened limbs to better self-care ability. Existing wearable power-assisted robots generally use surface electromyography (sEMG) to obtain effective human motion intentions. Due to the characteristics of sEMG signals, it is limited in many applications. To solve the above problems, we design a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network model based on human mechanomyography (MMG) signals to estimate the motion acceleration of knee joint. The acceleration can be further calculated by the torque required for movement control of the wearable power assistance robots for the lower limb. We detect MMG signals on the clothed thigh, extract features of the MMG signals, and then, use principal component analysis to reduce the features’ dimensions. Finally, the dimension-reduced features are inputted into the LSTM neural network model in time series for estimating the acceleration. The experimental results show that the average correlation coefficient ( R) is 94.48 ± 1.91% for the estimation of acceleration in the process of continuously performing under approximately π/4 rad/s. This approach can be applied in the practical applications of wearable field.


Author(s):  
A. R. Teplyakova ◽  
S. O. Starkov

The development of computer vision and the wide applicability of its applied components determine the relevance of research in this field of science. One of the most interesting tasks of computer vision is to monitor the behavior of people, which includes the analysis of their actions and carried out for various purposes. Examples of use are systems for monitoring compliance with safety regulations and the wearing of personal protective equipment by workers in factories, systems such as “smart home”, which track actions, systems for monitoring the condition of people in medical or social institutions, home systems for monitoring the condition of the elderly, which are able to notify relatives in cases of emergency situations. There is no comprehensive program that can solve the described problem and its variations, regardless of the scope of application. Therefore, the development of its prototype, which is a module that solves the human action recognition problem in the video, is an important problem. The article describes the creation of a software module that solves the human action recognition problem in a video. An overview of existing data sets suitable for training a neural network is provided, and data collection and processing for a custom dataset for actions of four different classes is described. The key features of the stages of creating, training and testing a neural network with the LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) architecture, as well as options for its practical application, are described below. The developed module is quite flexible, there is a possibility to increase the number of classes of recognized actions depending on the scope of its application, as well as the possibility of integration with other modules for monitoring the behavior of people who have a similar device.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 627-640 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avinash Chandra Pandey ◽  
Dharmveer Singh Rajpoot

Background: Sentiment analysis is a contextual mining of text which determines viewpoint of users with respect to some sentimental topics commonly present at social networking websites. Twitter is one of the social sites where people express their opinion about any topic in the form of tweets. These tweets can be examined using various sentiment classification methods to find the opinion of users. Traditional sentiment analysis methods use manually extracted features for opinion classification. The manual feature extraction process is a complicated task since it requires predefined sentiment lexicons. On the other hand, deep learning methods automatically extract relevant features from data hence; they provide better performance and richer representation competency than the traditional methods. Objective: The main aim of this paper is to enhance the sentiment classification accuracy and to reduce the computational cost. Method: To achieve the objective, a hybrid deep learning model, based on convolution neural network and bi-directional long-short term memory neural network has been introduced. Results: The proposed sentiment classification method achieves the highest accuracy for the most of the datasets. Further, from the statistical analysis efficacy of the proposed method has been validated. Conclusion: Sentiment classification accuracy can be improved by creating veracious hybrid models. Moreover, performance can also be enhanced by tuning the hyper parameters of deep leaning models.


2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 104
Author(s):  
Dana-Mihaela Petroșanu ◽  
Alexandru Pîrjan

The accurate forecasting of the hourly month-ahead electricity consumption represents a very important aspect for non-household electricity consumers and system operators, and at the same time represents a key factor in what regards energy efficiency and achieving sustainable economic, business, and management operations. In this context, we have devised, developed, and validated within the paper an hourly month ahead electricity consumption forecasting method. This method is based on a bidirectional long-short-term memory (BiLSTM) artificial neural network (ANN) enhanced with a multiple simultaneously decreasing delays approach coupled with function fitting neural networks (FITNETs). The developed method targets the hourly month-ahead total electricity consumption at the level of a commercial center-type consumer and for the hourly month ahead consumption of its refrigerator storage room. The developed approach offers excellent forecasting results, highlighted by the validation stage’s results along with the registered performance metrics, namely 0.0495 for the root mean square error (RMSE) performance metric for the total hourly month-ahead electricity consumption and 0.0284 for the refrigerator storage room. We aimed for and managed to attain an hourly month-ahead consumed electricity prediction without experiencing a significant drop in the forecasting accuracy that usually tends to occur after the first two weeks, therefore achieving a reliable method that satisfies the contractor’s needs, being able to enhance his/her activity from the economic, business, and management perspectives. Even if the devised, developed, and validated forecasting solution for the hourly consumption targets a commercial center-type consumer, based on its accuracy, this solution can also represent a useful tool for other non-household electricity consumers due to its generalization capability.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 1829
Author(s):  
Davide Grande ◽  
Catherine A. Harris ◽  
Giles Thomas ◽  
Enrico Anderlini

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) are increasingly being used for model identification, forecasting and control. When identifying physical models with unknown mathematical knowledge of the system, Nonlinear AutoRegressive models with eXogenous inputs (NARX) or Nonlinear AutoRegressive Moving-Average models with eXogenous inputs (NARMAX) methods are typically used. In the context of data-driven control, machine learning algorithms are proven to have comparable performances to advanced control techniques, but lack the properties of the traditional stability theory. This paper illustrates a method to prove a posteriori the stability of a generic neural network, showing its application to the state-of-the-art RNN architecture. The presented method relies on identifying the poles associated with the network designed starting from the input/output data. Providing a framework to guarantee the stability of any neural network architecture combined with the generalisability properties and applicability to different fields can significantly broaden their use in dynamic systems modelling and control.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Karun Thanjavur ◽  
Arif Babul ◽  
Brandon Foran ◽  
Maya Bielecki ◽  
Adam Gilchrist ◽  
...  

AbstractConcussion is a global health concern. Despite its high prevalence, a sound understanding of the mechanisms underlying this type of diffuse brain injury remains elusive. It is, however, well established that concussions cause significant functional deficits; that children and youths are disproportionately affected and have longer recovery time than adults; and that individuals suffering from a concussion are more prone to experience additional concussions, with each successive injury increasing the risk of long term neurological and mental health complications. Currently, the most significant challenge in concussion management is the lack of objective, clinically- accepted, brain-based approaches for determining whether an athlete has suffered a concussion. Here, we report on our efforts to address this challenge. Specifically, we introduce a deep learning long short-term memory (LSTM)-based recurrent neural network that is able to distinguish between non-concussed and acute post-concussed adolescent athletes using only short (i.e. 90 s long) samples of resting state EEG data as input. The athletes were neither required to perform a specific task nor expected to respond to a stimulus during data collection. The acquired EEG data were neither filtered, cleaned of artefacts, nor subjected to explicit feature extraction. The LSTM network was trained and validated using data from 27 male, adolescent athletes with sports related concussion, benchmarked against 35 non-concussed adolescent athletes. During rigorous testing, the classifier consistently identified concussions with an accuracy of > 90% and achieved an ensemble median Area Under the Receiver Operating Characteristic Curve (ROC/AUC) equal to 0.971. This is the first instance of a high-performing classifier that relies only on easy-to-acquire resting state, raw EEG data. Our concussion classifier represents a promising first step towards the development of an easy-to-use, objective, brain-based, automatic classification of concussion at an individual level.


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