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Robust human activity recognition using single accelerometer via wavelet energy spectrum features and ensemble feature selection

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Abstract

Wearable sensor-based human activity recognition has been widely used in many fields. Consideringthat a multi-sensor based recognition system is not suitable for practical applications andlong-term activity monitoring, this paper proposes a single wearable accelerometer-based humanactivity recognition approach. In order to improve the reliability of the recognition system andremove redundant features that have no effect on recognition accuracy, wavelet energy spectrumfeatures and a novel feature selection method are introduced. For each activity sample, waveletenergy spectrum features of the acceleration signal are extracted and the activity is representedby a feature set including wavelet energy spectrum features and features of other attributes. Then,considering the limitation of single filter feature selection method, this paper proposes an ensemblebasedfilter feature selection (EFFS) approach to optimize the feature set. Features that are robustto sensor placement and highly distinguishable for different activities are selected. In the experiment,the acceleration data around waist is collected and two classifiers: k-nearest neighbour (KNN)and support vector machine (SVM) are utilized to verify the effectiveness of the proposed featuresand EFFS method. Experiment results show that the wavelet energy spectrum features can increasethe discrimination between different activities and significantly and improve the activity recognitionaccuracy. Compared with other four popular feature selection methods, the proposed EFFS approachprovides higher accuracy with fewer features.

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Author(s): Tian Y, Zhang J, Wang J, Geng Y, Wang X

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Systems Science & Control Engineering

Year: 2020

Volume: 8

Issue: 1

Pages: 83-96

Print publication date: 18/02/2020

Online publication date: 18/02/2020

Acceptance date: 19/01/2020

Date deposited: 18/02/2020

ISSN (print): 2164-2583

ISSN (electronic): 2164-2583

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/21642583.2020.1723142

DOI: 10.1080/21642583.2020.1723142

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