title: Handling real-world context awareness, uncertainty and vagueness in real-time human activity tracking and recognition with a fuzzy ontology-based hybrid method.
abstract: Human activity recognition is a key task in ambient intelligence applications to achieve proper ambient assisted living. There has been remarkable progress in this domain, but some challenges still remain to obtain robust methods. Our goal in this work is to provide a system that allows the modeling and recognition of a set of complex activities in real life scenarios involving interaction with the environment. The proposed framework is a hybrid model that comprises two main modules: a low level sub-activity recognizer, based on data-driven methods, and a high-level activity recognizer, implemented with a fuzzy ontology to include the semantic interpretation of actions performed by users. The fuzzy ontology is fed by the sub-activities recognized by the low level data-driven component and provides fuzzy ontological reasoning to recognize both the activities and their influence in the environment with semantics. An additional benefit of the approach is the ability to handle vagueness and uncertainty in the knowledge-based module, which substantially outperforms the treatment of incomplete and/or imprecise data with respect to classic crisp ontologies. We validate these advantages with the public CAD-120 dataset (Cornell Activity Dataset), achieving an accuracy of 90.1% and 91.07% for low-level and Sensors 2014, 14 18132 high-level activities, respectively. This entails an improvement over fully data-driven or ontology-based approaches.
authors.affiliation: Akademi University, Department of Information Technologies, Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS) - Joukahainengatan, 3-5, Turku FIN-20520, Finland. ndiaz@abo.fi.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Díaz-Rodríguez
authors.affiliation: University of Granada, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S.I. Informática y de Telecomunicación -C/. Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s.n., Granada 18071, Spain. olmo.leon@decsai.ugr.es.
authors.forename: Olmo León
authors.initials: OL
authors.lastname: Cadahía
authors.affiliation: University of Granada, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S.I. Informática y de Telecomunicación -C/. Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s.n., Granada 18071, Spain.
authors.forename: Manuel Pegalajar
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Cuéllar
authors.affiliation: Akademi University, Department of Information Technologies, Turku Centre for Computer Science (TUCS) - Joukahainengatan, 3-5, Turku FIN-20520, Finland.
authors.forename: Johan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lilius
authors.affiliation: University of Granada, Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, E.T.S.I. Informática y de Telecomunicación -C/. Periodista Daniel Saucedo Aranda s.n., Granada 18071, Spain.
authors.forename: Miguel Delgado
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Calvo-Flores
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001185:Artificial Intelligence; D017143:Fuzzy Logic; D006802:Human Activities; D006801:Humans; D012660:Semantics; D035501:Uncertainty; D014741:Video Recording