Human Activity Recognition Data Analysis: History, Evolutions, and New Trends

Sensors (Basel). 2022 Apr 29;22(9):3401. doi: 10.3390/s22093401.

Abstract

The Assisted Living Environments Research Area-AAL (Ambient Assisted Living), focuses on generating innovative technology, products, and services to assist, medical care and rehabilitation to older adults, to increase the time in which these people can live. independently, whether they suffer from neurodegenerative diseases or some disability. This important area is responsible for the development of activity recognition systems-ARS (Activity Recognition Systems), which is a valuable tool when it comes to identifying the type of activity carried out by older adults, to provide them with assistance. that allows you to carry out your daily activities with complete normality. This article aims to show the review of the literature and the evolution of the different techniques for processing this type of data from supervised, unsupervised, ensembled learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, transfer learning, and metaheuristics approach applied to this sector of science. health, showing the metrics of recent experiments for researchers in this area of knowledge. As a result of this article, it can be identified that models based on reinforcement or transfer learning constitute a good line of work for the processing and analysis of human recognition activities.

Keywords: activities of daily living—ADL; activity recognition systems—ARS; ambient assisted living—AAL; clustering; deep learning; ensemble learning; human activity recognition—HAR; reinforcement learning; supervised learning; unsupervised activity recognition; unsupervised learning.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Activities of Daily Living
  • Aged
  • Ambient Intelligence*
  • Disabled Persons*
  • Human Activities
  • Humans
  • Technology

Grants and funding

European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 734355.