Synthetic Sensor Data Generation for Health Applications: A Supervised Deep Learning Approach

Annu Int Conf IEEE Eng Med Biol Soc. 2018 Jul:2018:1164-1167. doi: 10.1109/EMBC.2018.8512470.

Abstract

Recent advancements in mobile devices, data analysis, and wearable sensors render the capability of in-place health monitoring. Supervised machine learning algorithms, the core intelligence of these systems, learn from labeled training data. However, labeling vast amount of data is time-consuming and expensive. Moreover, sensor data often contains personal information that a user may not be comfortable sharing. Therefore, there is a strong need to develop methods for generating realistic labeled sensor data. In this paper, we propose a supervised generative adversarial network architecture that learns from feedback from both a discriminator and a classifier in order to create synthetic sensor data. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the architecture on a publicly available human activity dataset. We show that our generator learns to output diverse samples that are similar but not identical to the training data.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms*
  • Deep Learning*
  • Human Activities
  • Humans
  • Supervised Machine Learning