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Dealing with the Effects of Sensor Displacement in Wearable Activity Recognition
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Most wearable activity recognition systems assume a predefined sensor deployment that remains unchanged during runtime. However, this assumption does not reflect real-life conditions. During the normal use of such systems, users may place the sensors in a position different from the predefined sensor placement. Also, sensors may move from their original location to a different one, due to a loose attachment. Activity recognition systems trained on activity patterns characteristic of a given sensor deployment may likely fail due to sensor displacements. In this work, we innovatively explore the effects of sensor displacement induced by both the intentional misplacement of sensors and self-placement by the user. The effects of sensor displacement are analyzed for standard activity recognition techniques, as well as for an alternate robust sensor fusion method proposed in a previous work. While classical recognition models show little tolerance to sensor displacement, the proposed method is proven to have notable capabilities to assimilate the changes introduced in the sensor position due to self-placement and provides considerable improvements for large misplacements.
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“This dataset includes recordings from 17 subjects performing 33 different activities in three different scenarios.”
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“This dataset includes recordings from 17 subjects, seven females and ten males, with ages ranging from 22 to 37 years old.”
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“The most significant characteristic of this dataset is the introduction of sensor displacement, such as rotation and mis-positioning from the corresponding body part.”
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“The experiment consisted in performing a complete set of exercises: 33 physical activities, including warm up, fitness and cool down activities (walking, jogging, cycling, jumping, etc.).”
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“These recording include 13 inertial signals obtained from 9 on-body inertial measurement units located on different body parts.”
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“Using these sensors, a 3D (3-dimension) linear acceleration, a 3D angular velocity, a 3D magnetic field orientation and a 4D quaternions are sampled every 20 ms (50 Hz sample-rate).”
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“This dataset also includes a Null-activity.This label has been assigned to other activities (different from the 33 activities considered in this study), and also, the transitions between activities.”
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“When comparing these results to the original paper, there is a big improvement (more than 10%, from 88.4 to 98.9%) in the self-placement scenario.”
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“After introducing the signal normalization method and considering all sensors, the system accuracy goes to 99.4%, a 2.4% improvement compared to the original paper (97%).”
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“Regarding the self-placement scenario, this table shows 8.6% accuracy drop compared to the ideal-placement in the original paper (from 97.0 to 88.4%), but with our system, this reduction is lower than 0.5% (from 99.1 to 98.9%).”
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“our system still maintains a high performance when the Null-activity is included: the system only loses 0.3% accuracy (from 99.4 to 99.1%) showing a significant improvement (2.1%) respect to the baseline system (97%).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Banos, O., Toth, M., Damas, M., Pomares, H., & Rojas, I.
- Affiliations
- Department of Computer Architecture and Computer Technology, Research Center for Information and Communications Technologies-University of Granada (CITIC-UGR), C/Calle Periodista RafaelGomez Montero 2, Granada E18071, Spain
- University of the Basque Country (ES)
- Universidad de Granada (ES)
- Venue
- Sensors
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2014-06-06
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 9995-10023
- ISSN
- 1424-8220 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC4118358
- OpenAlex
- W2157091296
- Cited by
- 159
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- 14.59
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- en
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- Funders
- European Commission (264738, 228398)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Physical Activity and Health
- Physical Sciences › Engineering › Biomedical Engineering › Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Keywords
- wearable activity recognition, sensor displacement, self-placement, sensor placement, wearable sensors
- MeSH terms
- Activities of Daily Living, Adult, Clothing, Equipment Design, Female, Humans, Male, Exercise, Monitoring, Ambulatory, Young Adult
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