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- Title
Robust Sounds of Activities of Daily Living Classification in Two-Channel Audio-Based Telemonitoring.
- Authors
Maunder, David; Epps, Julien; Ambikairajah, Eliathamby; Celler, Branko
- Abstract
Despite recent advances in the area of home telemonitoring, the challenge of automatically detecting the sound signatures of activities of daily living of an elderly patient using nonintrusive and reliable methods remains. This paper investigates the classification of eight typical sounds of daily life from arbitrarily positioned two-microphone sensors under realistic noisy conditions. In particular, the role of several source separation and sound activity detection methods is considered. Evaluations on a new four-microphone database collected under four realistic noise conditions reveal that effective sound activity detection can produce significant gains in classification accuracy and that further gains can be made using source separation methods based on independent component analysis. Encouragingly, the results show that recognition accuracies in the range 70%-100% can be consistently obtained using different microphone-pair positions, under all but the most severe noise conditions.
- Subjects
ROBUST control; EVERYDAY life; TELEMEDICINE; AUTOMATIC control systems; MICROPHONES; ELECTROACOUSTIC transducers
- Publication
International Journal of Telemedicine & Applications, 2013, p1
- ISSN
1687-6415
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1155/2013/696813