Analysis of Low resolution accelerometer data for human activity recognition

Publication Type:

Conference Paper

Authors:

N.C. Krishnan, S. Panchanathan

Source:

Accepted to IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA (2008)

Abstract:

The advent of wearable sensors like accelerometers has opened a plethora of opportunities to recognize human activities from other low resolution sensory streams. In this paper we formulate recognizing activities from accelerometer data as a classification problem. In addition to the statistical and spectral features extracted from the acceleration data, we propose to extract features that characterize the variations in the first order derivative of the acceleration signal. We evaluate the performance of different state of the art discriminative classifiers like, boosted decision stumps (AdaBoost), support vector machines (SVM) and Regularized Logistic Regression(RLogReg) under three different evaluation scenarios(namely Subject Independent, Subject Adaptive and Subject Dependent). We propose a novel computationally inexpensive methodology for incorporating smoothing classification temporally, that can be coupled with any classifier with minimal training for classifying continuous sequences. While a 3% increase in the classification accuracy was observed on adding the new features, the proposed technique for continuous recognition showed a 2:5-3% improvement in the performance.

Authors

Narayanan Chatapuram Krishnan

Narayanan Chatapuram Krishnan

Ph.D Student Researcher

Dr. Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan

Dr. Sethuraman "Panch" Panchanathan

Director, National Science Foundation

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Traditional approaches to human activity recognition relying on vision as the primary sensory medium have met with little success. The emergence of the ubiquitous and pervasive paradigm of computing has ushered in new low bandwidth wearable, unobtrusive, inexpensive and…