16 research outputs found
Recognition of Crowd Behavior from Mobile Sensors with Pattern Analysis and Graph Clustering Methods
Mobile on-body sensing has distinct advantages for the analysis and
understanding of crowd dynamics: sensing is not geographically restricted to a
specific instrumented area, mobile phones offer on-body sensing and they are
already deployed on a large scale, and the rich sets of sensors they contain
allows one to characterize the behavior of users through pattern recognition
techniques.
In this paper we present a methodological framework for the machine
recognition of crowd behavior from on-body sensors, such as those in mobile
phones. The recognition of crowd behaviors opens the way to the acquisition of
large-scale datasets for the analysis and understanding of crowd dynamics. It
has also practical safety applications by providing improved crowd situational
awareness in cases of emergency.
The framework comprises: behavioral recognition with the user's mobile
device, pairwise analyses of the activity relatedness of two users, and graph
clustering in order to uncover globally, which users participate in a given
crowd behavior. We illustrate this framework for the identification of groups
of persons walking, using empirically collected data.
We discuss the challenges and research avenues for theoretical and applied
mathematics arising from the mobile sensing of crowd behaviors
Detecting freezing of gait with a tri-axial accelerometer in Parkinsonâs disease patients
Freezing of gait (FOG) is a common motor symptom of Parkinson's disease (PD), which presents itself as an inability to initiate or continue gait. This paper presents a method to monitor FOG episodes based only on acceleration measurements obtained from a waist-worn device. Three approximations of this method are tested. Initially, FOG is directly detected by a support vector machine (SVM). Then, classifier's outputs are aggregated over time to determine a confidence value, which is used for the final classification of freezing (i.e., second and third approach). All variations are trained with signals of 15 patients and evaluated with signals from another 5 patients. Using a linear SVM kernel, the third approach provides 98.7 % accuracy and a geometric mean of 96.1 %. Moreover, it is investigated whether frequency features are enough to reliably detect FOG. Results show that these features allow the method to detect FOG with accuracies above 90 % and that frequency features enable a reliable monitoring of FOG by using simply a waist sensor