title: Time-Elastic Generative Model for Acceleration Time Series in Human Activity Recognition.
abstract: Body-worn sensors in general and accelerometers in particular have been widely used in order to detect human movements and activities. The execution of each type of movement by each particular individual generates sequences of time series of sensed data from which specific movement related patterns can be assessed. Several machine learning algorithms have been used over windowed segments of sensed data in order to detect such patterns in activity recognition based on intermediate features (either hand-crafted or automatically learned from data). The underlying assumption is that the computed features will capture statistical differences that can properly classify different movements and activities after a training phase based on sensed data. In order to achieve high accuracy and recall rates (and guarantee the generalization of the system to new users), the training data have to contain enough information to characterize all possible ways of executing the activity or movement to be detected. This could imply large amounts of data and a complex and time-consuming training phase, which has been shown to be even more relevant when automatically learning the optimal features to be used. In this paper, we present a novel generative model that is able to generate sequences of time series for characterizing a particular movement based on the time elasticity properties of the sensed data. The model is used to train a stack of auto-encoders in order to learn the particular features able to detect human movements. The results of movement detection using a newly generated database with information on five users performing six different movements are presented. The generalization of results using an existing database is also presented in the paper. The results show that the proposed mechanism is able to obtain acceptable recognition rates (F= 0.77) even in the case of using different people executing a different sequence of movements and using different hardware.
authors.affiliation: Telematics Engineering Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Av. Universidad, 30, 28911 Leganes, Spain. munozm@it.uc3m.es.
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Munoz-Organero
authors.affiliation: Telematics Engineering Department, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid; Av. Universidad, 30, 28911 Leganes, Spain. munozm@it.uc3m.es.
authors.forename: Ramona
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ruiz-Blazquez
mesh_terms: D000054:Acceleration; D000465:Algorithms; D006802:Human Activities; D006801:Humans; D009068:Movement; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated
keywords: accelerometer sensors; auto-encoders; generative models for training deep learning algorithms; human activity recognition