11 research outputs found
Stratified Transfer Learning for Cross-domain Activity Recognition
In activity recognition, it is often expensive and time-consuming to acquire
sufficient activity labels. To solve this problem, transfer learning leverages
the labeled samples from the source domain to annotate the target domain which
has few or none labels. Existing approaches typically consider learning a
global domain shift while ignoring the intra-affinity between classes, which
will hinder the performance of the algorithms. In this paper, we propose a
novel and general cross-domain learning framework that can exploit the
intra-affinity of classes to perform intra-class knowledge transfer. The
proposed framework, referred to as Stratified Transfer Learning (STL), can
dramatically improve the classification accuracy for cross-domain activity
recognition. Specifically, STL first obtains pseudo labels for the target
domain via majority voting technique. Then, it performs intra-class knowledge
transfer iteratively to transform both domains into the same subspaces.
Finally, the labels of target domain are obtained via the second annotation. To
evaluate the performance of STL, we conduct comprehensive experiments on three
large public activity recognition datasets~(i.e. OPPORTUNITY, PAMAP2, and UCI
DSADS), which demonstrates that STL significantly outperforms other
state-of-the-art methods w.r.t. classification accuracy (improvement of 7.68%).
Furthermore, we extensively investigate the performance of STL across different
degrees of similarities and activity levels between domains. And we also
discuss the potential of STL in other pervasive computing applications to
provide empirical experience for future research.Comment: 10 pages; accepted by IEEE PerCom 2018; full paper. (camera-ready
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Domain Adaptation for Inertial Measurement Unit-based Human Activity Recognition: A Survey
Machine learning-based wearable human activity recognition (WHAR) models
enable the development of various smart and connected community applications
such as sleep pattern monitoring, medication reminders, cognitive health
assessment, sports analytics, etc. However, the widespread adoption of these
WHAR models is impeded by their degraded performance in the presence of data
distribution heterogeneities caused by the sensor placement at different body
positions, inherent biases and heterogeneities across devices, and personal and
environmental diversities. Various traditional machine learning algorithms and
transfer learning techniques have been proposed in the literature to address
the underpinning challenges of handling such data heterogeneities. Domain
adaptation is one such transfer learning techniques that has gained significant
popularity in recent literature. In this paper, we survey the recent progress
of domain adaptation techniques in the Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based
human activity recognition area, discuss potential future directions
Cross-position Activity Recognition with Stratified Transfer Learning
Human activity recognition aims to recognize the activities of daily living
by utilizing the sensors on different body parts. However, when the labeled
data from a certain body position (i.e. target domain) is missing, how to
leverage the data from other positions (i.e. source domain) to help learn the
activity labels of this position? When there are several source domains
available, it is often difficult to select the most similar source domain to
the target domain. With the selected source domain, we need to perform accurate
knowledge transfer between domains. Existing methods only learn the global
distance between domains while ignoring the local property. In this paper, we
propose a \textit{Stratified Transfer Learning} (STL) framework to perform both
source domain selection and knowledge transfer. STL is based on our proposed
\textit{Stratified} distance to capture the local property of domains. STL
consists of two components: Stratified Domain Selection (STL-SDS) can select
the most similar source domain to the target domain; Stratified Activity
Transfer (STL-SAT) is able to perform accurate knowledge transfer. Extensive
experiments on three public activity recognition datasets demonstrate the
superiority of STL. Furthermore, we extensively investigate the performance of
transfer learning across different degrees of similarities and activity levels
between domains. We also discuss the potential applications of STL in other
fields of pervasive computing for future research.Comment: Submit to Pervasive and Mobile Computing as an extension to PerCom 18
paper; First revision. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with
arXiv:1801.0082
The Use of Transfer Learning for Activity Recognition in Instances of Heterogeneous Sensing
Transfer learning is a growing field that can address the variability of activity recognition problems by reusing the knowledge from previous experiences to recognise activities from different conditions, resulting in the leveraging of resources such as training and labelling efforts. Although integrating ubiquitous sensing technology and transfer learning seem promising, there are some research opportunities that, if addressed, could accelerate the development of activity recognition. This paper presents TL-FmRADLs; a framework that converges the feature fusion strategy with a teacher/learner approach over the active learning technique to automatise the self-training process of the learner models. Evaluation TL-FmRADLs is conducted over InSync; an open access dataset introduced for the first time in this paper. Results show promising effects towards mitigating the insufficiency of labelled data available by enabling the learner model to outperform the teacher’s performance
XLearn : learning activity labels across heterogeneous datasets
Sensor-driven systems often need to map sensed data into meaningfully labelled activities to classify the phenomena being observed. A motivating and challenging example comes from human activity recognition in which smart home and other datasets are used to classify human activities to support applications such as ambient assisted living, health monitoring, and behavioural intervention. Building a robust and meaningful classifier needs annotated ground truth, labelled with what activities are actually being observed—and acquiring high-quality, detailed, continuous annotations remains a challenging, time-consuming, and error-prone task, despite considerable attention in the literature. In this article, we use knowledge-driven ensemble learning to develop a technique that can combine classifiers built from individually labelled datasets, even when the labels are sparse and heterogeneous. The technique both relieves individual users of the burden of annotation and allows activities to be learned individually and then transferred to a general classifier. We evaluate our approach using four third-party, real-world smart home datasets and show that it enhances activity recognition accuracies even when given only a very small amount of training data.PostprintPeer reviewe
Transfer Learning in Human Activity Recognition: A Survey
Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) has been an active research
area, owing to its applications in smart environments, assisted living,
fitness, healthcare, etc. Recently, deep learning based end-to-end training has
resulted in state-of-the-art performance in domains such as computer vision and
natural language, where large amounts of annotated data are available. However,
large quantities of annotated data are not available for sensor-based HAR.
Moreover, the real-world settings on which the HAR is performed differ in terms
of sensor modalities, classification tasks, and target users. To address this
problem, transfer learning has been employed extensively. In this survey, we
focus on these transfer learning methods in the application domains of smart
home and wearables-based HAR. In particular, we provide a problem-solution
perspective by categorizing and presenting the works in terms of their
contributions and the challenges they address. We also present an updated view
of the state-of-the-art for both application domains. Based on our analysis of
205 papers, we highlight the gaps in the literature and provide a roadmap for
addressing them. This survey provides a reference to the HAR community, by
summarizing the existing works and providing a promising research agenda.Comment: 40 pages, 5 figures, 7 table