title: Body-Earth Mover's Distance: A Matching-Based Approach for Sleep Posture Recognition.
abstract: Sleep posture is a key component in sleep quality assessment and pressure ulcer prevention. Currently, body pressure analysis has been a popular method for sleep posture recognition. In this paper, a matching-based approach, Body-Earth Mover's Distance (BEMD), for sleep posture recognition is proposed. BEMD treats pressure images as weighted 2D shapes, and combines EMD and Euclidean distance for similarity measure. Compared with existing work, sleep posture recognition is achieved with posture similarity rather than multiple features for specific postures. A pilot study is performed with 14 persons for six different postures. The experimental results show that the proposed BEMD can achieve 91.21% accuracy, which outperforms the previous method with an improvement of 8.01%.
authors.forename: Xiaowei
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Xu
authors.forename: Feng
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Lin
authors.forename: Aosen
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Yu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hu
authors.forename: Ming-Chun
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Wenyao
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Xu
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008365:Manometry / Q000379:methods*; D018670:Monitoring, Ambulatory / Q000379:methods*; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated / Q000379:methods*; D017286:Polysomnography / Q000379:methods; D011187:Posture; D003668:Pressure Ulcer / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012890:Sleep; D051598:Whole Body Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D055815:Young Adult