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- Title
Latent feature learning for activity recognition using simple sensors in smart homes.
- Authors
Chen, Guilin; Wang, Aiguo; Zhao, Shenghui; Liu, Li; Chang, Chih-Yung
- Abstract
Activity recognition is an important step towards monitoring and evaluating the functional health of an individual, and it potentially promotes human-centric ubiquitous applications in smart homes particularly for senior healthcare. The nature of human activity characterized by a high degree of complexity and uncertainty, however, poses a great challenge to the design of good feature representations and the optimization of classifiers towards building a robust model for human activity recognition. In this study, we propose to exploit deep learning techniques to automatically learn high-level features from the binary sensor data under the assumption that there exist discriminative latent patterns inherent in the simple low-level features. Specifically, we extract high-level features with a stacked autoencoder that has a deep and hierarchy architecture, and combine feature learning and classifier construction into a unified framework to obtain a jointly optimized activity recognizer. Besides, we investigate two different original feature representations of the sensor data for latent feature learning. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we conduct extensive experiments on three publicly available smart home datasets, and compare it with a range of shallow models in terms of time-slice accuracy and class accuracy. Experimental results show that our proposed model achieves better recognition rates and generalizes better across different original feature representations, indicating its applicability to the real-world activity recognition.
- Subjects
HOME automation; HUMAN activity recognition; PATTERN recognition systems; PATTERN perception; ELECTRONIC control
- Publication
Multimedia Tools & Applications, 2018, Vol 77, Issue 12, p15201
- ISSN
1380-7501
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11042-017-5100-4