A lightweight hierarchical activity recognition framework using smartphone sensors

Sensors (Basel). 2014 Sep 2;14(9):16181-95. doi: 10.3390/s140916181.

Abstract

Activity recognition for the purposes of recognizing a user's intentions using multimodal sensors is becoming a widely researched topic largely based on the prevalence of the smartphone. Previous studies have reported the difficulty in recognizing life-logs by only using a smartphone due to the challenges with activity modeling and real-time recognition. In addition, recognizing life-logs is difficult due to the absence of an established framework which enables the use of different sources of sensor data. In this paper, we propose a smartphone-based Hierarchical Activity Recognition Framework which extends the Naïve Bayes approach for the processing of activity modeling and real-time activity recognition. The proposed algorithm demonstrates higher accuracy than the Naïve Bayes approach and also enables the recognition of a user's activities within a mobile environment. The proposed algorithm has the ability to classify fifteen activities with an average classification accuracy of 92.96%.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Accelerometry / instrumentation*
  • Actigraphy / instrumentation*
  • Algorithms
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Cell Phone*
  • Equipment Design
  • Equipment Failure Analysis
  • Humans
  • Information Storage and Retrieval / methods*
  • Monitoring, Ambulatory / instrumentation*
  • Pattern Recognition, Automated / methods*
  • Software
  • Transducers
  • User-Computer Interface*