Title
Semi-Markov conditional random fields for accelerometer-based activity recognition
Abstract
Activity recognition is becoming an important research area, and finding its way to many application domains ranging from daily life services to industrial zones. Sensing hardware and learning algorithms are two important components in activity recognition. For sensing devices, we prefer to use accelerometers due to low cost and low power requirement. For learning algorithms, we propose a novel implementation of the semi-Markov Conditional Random Fields (semi-CRF) introduced by Sarawagi and Cohen. Our implementation not only outperforms the original method in terms of computation complexity (at least 10 times faster in our experiments) but also is able to capture the interdependency among labels, which was not possible in the previously proposed model. Our results indicate that the proposed approach works well even for complicated activities like eating and driving a car. The average precision and recall are 88.47% and 86.68%, respectively, which are higher than results obtained by using other methods such as Hidden Markov Model (HMM) or Topic Model (TM).
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/s10489-010-0216-5
Appl. Intell.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Activity recognition,Wearable sensors,Accelerometer,Hidden Markov Model (HMM),Conditional Random Fields (CRF)
Journal
35
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
2
0924-669X
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.46
19
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
La The Vinh11087.36
Sungyoung Lee22932279.41
Le Xuan Hung319415.73
Quoc-Hung Ngo412112.56
Hyoung Il Kim550.46
Manhyung Han61098.67
Young-Koo Lee72073188.97