title: Optimal Parameter Exploration for Online Change-Point Detection in Activity Monitoring Using Genetic Algorithms.
abstract: In recent years, smart phones with inbuilt sensors have become popular devices to facilitate activity recognition. The sensors capture a large amount of data, containing meaningful events, in a short period of time. The change points in this data are used to specify transitions to distinct events and can be used in various scenarios such as identifying change in a patient's vital signs in the medical domain or requesting activity labels for generating real-world labeled activity datasets. Our work focuses on change-point detection to identify a transition from one activity to another. Within this paper, we extend our previous work on multivariate exponentially weighted moving average (MEWMA) algorithm by using a genetic algorithm (GA) to identify the optimal set of parameters for online change-point detection. The proposed technique finds the maximum accuracy andF_measureby optimizing the different parameters of the MEWMA, which subsequently identifies the exact location of the change point from an existing activity to a new one. Optimal parameter selection facilitates an algorithm to detect accurate change points and minimize false alarms. Results have been evaluated based on two real datasets of accelerometer data collected from a set of different activities from two users, with a high degree of accuracy from 99.4% to 99.8% andF_measureof up to 66.7%.
authors: School of Computing and Information Engineering, Ulster University, Coleraine, Co., Londonderry BTT52 1SA, UK. khan-n5@email.ulster.ac.uk.
authors: Naveed
authors: N
authors: Khan
authors: School of Computing and Information Engineering, Ulster University, Coleraine, Co., Londonderry BTT52 1SA, UK. si.mcclean@ulster.ac.uk.
authors: Sally
authors: S
authors: McClean
authors: School of Computing and Mathematics, Ulster University, Jordanstown, Co., Antrim BT37 0QB, UK. s.zhang@ulster.ac.uk.
authors: Shuai
authors: S
authors: Zhang
authors: School of Computing and Mathematics, Ulster University, Jordanstown, Co., Antrim BT37 0QB, UK. cd.nugent@ulster.ac.uk.
authors: Chris
authors: C
authors: Nugent
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001334:Automobile Driving; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D008991:Monitoring, Physiologic / Q000379:methods*; D012420:Running / Q000502:physiology; D016138:Walking / Q000502:physiology
keywords: accelerometer; activity monitoring; change-point detection; genetic algorithm; multivariate change detection; multivariate exponentially weighted moving average