Human Movement Recognition Based on the Stochastic Characterisation of Acceleration Data

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Munoz-Organero, M. and Lotfi, A. ORCID: 0000-0002-5139-6565, 2016. Human Movement Recognition Based on the Stochastic Characterisation of Acceleration Data. Sensors, 16 (9), p. 1464. ISSN 1424-8220

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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.3390/s16091464

Abstract

Human activity recognition algorithms based on information obtained from wearable sensors are successfully applied in detecting many basic activities. Identified activities with time-stationary features are characterised inside a predefined temporal window by using different machine learning algorithms on extracted features from the measured data. Better accuracy, precision and recall levels could be achieved by combining the information from different sensors. However, detecting short and sporadic human movements, gestures and actions is still a challenging task. In this paper, a novel algorithm to detect human basic movements from wearable measured data is proposed and evaluated. The proposed algorithm is designed to minimise computational requirements while achieving acceptable accuracy levels based on characterising some particular points in the temporal series obtained from a single sensor. The underlying idea is that this algorithm would be implemented in the sensor device in order to pre-process the sensed data stream before sending the information to a central point combining the information from different sensors to improve accuracy levels. Intra- and inter-person validation is used for two particular cases: single step detection and fall detection and classification using a single tri-axial accelerometer. Relevant results for the above cases and pertinent conclusions are also presented.

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Journal article

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Sensors

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Munoz-Organero, M. and Lotfi, A.

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MDPI

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9 September 2016

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