A system for activity recognition using multi-sensor fusion

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2011:2011:7869-72. doi: 10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091939.

Abstract

This paper proposes a system for activity recognition using multi-sensor fusion. In this system, four sensors are attached to the waist, chest, thigh, and side of the body. In the study we present two solutions for factors that affect the activity recognition accuracy: the calibration drift and the sensor orientation changing. The datasets used to evaluate this system were collected from 8 subjects who were asked to perform 8 scripted normal activities of daily living (ADL), three times each. The Naïve Bayes classifier using multi-sensor fusion is adopted and achieves 70.88%-97.66% recognition accuracies for 1-4 sensors.

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living*
  • Aged
  • Aged, 80 and over
  • Calibration
  • Humans
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / instrumentation*
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*
  • Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted