Motion2Vector: unsupervised learning in human activity recognition using wrist-sensing data

Lu Bai, Chris Yeung, Christos Efstratiou, Moyra Chikomo

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Abstract

With the increasing popularity of consumer wearable devices augmented with sensing capabilities (smart bands, smart watches), there is a significant focus on extracting meaningful information about human behaviour through large scale real-world wearable sensor data. The focus of this work is to develop techniques to detect human activities, utilis-ing a large dataset of wearable data where no ground truth has been produced on the actual activities performed. We propose a deep learning variational auto encoder activity recognition model - Motion2Vector. The model is trained using large amounts of unlabelled human activity data to learn a representation of a time period of activity data. The learned activity representations can be mapped into an embedded activity space and grouped with regards to the nature of the activity type. In order to evaluate the proposed model, we have applied our method on public dataset - The Heterogeneity Human Activity Recognition (HHAR) dataset. The results showed that our method can achieve improved result over the HHAR dataset. In addition, we have collected our own lab-based activity dataset. Our experimental results show that our system achieves good accuracy in detecting such activities, and has the potential to provide additional insights in understanding the real-world activity in the situations where there is no ground truth available.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationUbiComp/ISWC 2019- - Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages537-542
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450368698
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 09 Sept 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2019 - London, United Kingdom
Duration: 09 Sept 201913 Sept 2019

Publication series

NameAdjunct Proceedings of the ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers

Conference

Conference2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityLondon
Period09/09/201913/09/2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This research was partially supported by Innovate UK (KTP-10829)

Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM.

Keywords

  • Deep learning
  • Human activity recognition
  • Variational auto encoder

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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