13,113 research outputs found
Analysis and recognition of human gait activity based on multimodal sensors
Remote health monitoring plays a significant role in research areas related to medicine, neurology, rehabilitation, and robotic systems. These applications include Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable sensors, signal processing, mathematical methods, and machine learning to improve the accuracy of remote health monitoring systems. To improve the detection and accuracy of human activity recognition, we create a novel method to reduce the complexities of extracting features using the HuGaDB dataset. Our model extracts power spectra; due to the high dimensionality of features, sliding windows techniques are used to determine frequency bandwidth automatically, where an improved QRS algorithm selects the first dominant spectrum amplitude. In addition, the bandwidth algorithm has been used to reduce the dimensionality of data, remove redundant dimensions, and improve feature extraction. In this work, we have considered widely used machine learning classifiers. Our proposed method was evaluated using the accelerometer angles spectrum installed in six parts of the body and then reducing the bandwidth to know the evolution. Our approach attains an accuracy rate of 95.1% in the HuGaDB dataset with 70% of bandwidth, outperforming others in the human activity recognition accuracy.Partial funding for open access charge: Universidad de Málag
Can smartwatches replace smartphones for posture tracking?
This paper introduces a human posture tracking platform to identify the human postures of sitting, standing or lying down, based on a smartwatch. This work develops such a system as a proof-of-concept study to investigate a smartwatch's ability to be used in future remote health monitoring systems and applications. This work validates the smartwatches' ability to track the posture of users accurately in a laboratory setting while reducing the sampling rate to potentially improve battery life, the first steps in verifying that such a system would work in future clinical settings. The algorithm developed classifies the transitions between three posture states of sitting, standing and lying down, by identifying these transition movements, as well as other movements that might be mistaken for these transitions. The system is trained and developed on a Samsung Galaxy Gear smartwatch, and the algorithm was validated through a leave-one-subject-out cross-validation of 20 subjects. The system can identify the appropriate transitions at only 10 Hz with an F-score of 0.930, indicating its ability to effectively replace smart phones, if needed
Deep HMResNet Model for Human Activity-Aware Robotic Systems
Endowing the robotic systems with cognitive capabilities for recognizing
daily activities of humans is an important challenge, which requires
sophisticated and novel approaches. Most of the proposed approaches explore
pattern recognition techniques which are generally based on hand-crafted
features or learned features. In this paper, a novel Hierarchal Multichannel
Deep Residual Network (HMResNet) model is proposed for robotic systems to
recognize daily human activities in the ambient environments. The introduced
model is comprised of multilevel fusion layers. The proposed Multichannel 1D
Deep Residual Network model is, at the features level, combined with a
Bottleneck MLP neural network to automatically extract robust features
regardless of the hardware configuration and, at the decision level, is fully
connected with an MLP neural network to recognize daily human activities.
Empirical experiments on real-world datasets and an online demonstration are
used for validating the proposed model. Results demonstrated that the proposed
model outperforms the baseline models in daily human activity recognition.Comment: Presented at AI-HRI AAAI-FSS, 2018 (arXiv:1809.06606
Wearable Sensor Data Based Human Activity Recognition using Machine Learning: A new approach
Recent years have witnessed the rapid development of human activity
recognition (HAR) based on wearable sensor data. One can find many practical
applications in this area, especially in the field of health care. Many machine
learning algorithms such as Decision Trees, Support Vector Machine, Naive
Bayes, K-Nearest Neighbor, and Multilayer Perceptron are successfully used in
HAR. Although these methods are fast and easy for implementation, they still
have some limitations due to poor performance in a number of situations. In
this paper, we propose a novel method based on the ensemble learning to boost
the performance of these machine learning methods for HAR
Radar and RGB-depth sensors for fall detection: a review
This paper reviews recent works in the literature on the use of systems based on radar and RGB-Depth (RGB-D) sensors for fall detection, and discusses outstanding research challenges and trends related to this research field. Systems to detect reliably fall events and promptly alert carers and first responders have gained significant interest in the past few years in order to address the societal issue of an increasing number of elderly people living alone, with the associated risk of them falling and the consequences in terms of health treatments, reduced well-being, and costs. The interest in radar and RGB-D sensors is related to their capability to enable contactless and non-intrusive monitoring, which is an advantage for practical deployment and users’ acceptance and compliance, compared with other sensor technologies, such as video-cameras, or wearables. Furthermore, the possibility of combining and fusing information from The heterogeneous types of sensors is expected to improve the overall performance of practical fall detection systems. Researchers from different fields can benefit from multidisciplinary knowledge and awareness of the latest developments in radar and RGB-D sensors that this paper is discussing
Towards a Practical Pedestrian Distraction Detection Framework using Wearables
Pedestrian safety continues to be a significant concern in urban communities
and pedestrian distraction is emerging as one of the main causes of grave and
fatal accidents involving pedestrians. The advent of sophisticated mobile and
wearable devices, equipped with high-precision on-board sensors capable of
measuring fine-grained user movements and context, provides a tremendous
opportunity for designing effective pedestrian safety systems and applications.
Accurate and efficient recognition of pedestrian distractions in real-time
given the memory, computation and communication limitations of these devices,
however, remains the key technical challenge in the design of such systems.
Earlier research efforts in pedestrian distraction detection using data
available from mobile and wearable devices have primarily focused only on
achieving high detection accuracy, resulting in designs that are either
resource intensive and unsuitable for implementation on mainstream mobile
devices, or computationally slow and not useful for real-time pedestrian safety
applications, or require specialized hardware and less likely to be adopted by
most users. In the quest for a pedestrian safety system that achieves a
favorable balance between computational efficiency, detection accuracy, and
energy consumption, this paper makes the following main contributions: (i)
design of a novel complex activity recognition framework which employs motion
data available from users' mobile and wearable devices and a lightweight
frequency matching approach to accurately and efficiently recognize complex
distraction related activities, and (ii) a comprehensive comparative evaluation
of the proposed framework with well-known complex activity recognition
techniques in the literature with the help of data collected from human subject
pedestrians and prototype implementations on commercially-available mobile and
wearable devices
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