Title
Hierarchical generalized context inference or context-aware smart homes
Abstract
Human activity is among the critical information for a context-aware smart home since knowing what activities are undertaken is important for providing appropriate services. Most of the prior works primarily focus on recognizing individual activity, thus requiring high cost to track people and performs not well when there are multiple users, which is common in a real home environment. Therefore, we propose hierarchical generalized context inference to infer multi-user contexts. By treating a multi-user context as a generalized context caused by an aggregated entity, our approach generalizes these multi-user contexts with different information granularity, and then dynamically infers and aggregates these generalized contexts. Based on the inference results of generalized contexts, a context-aware smart home can provide appropriate services as much as possible. Our experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/IROS.2012.6385739
IROS
Keywords
Field
DocType
context generalization,inference mechanisms,home automation,context-aware smart homes,activity recognition,hierarchical generalized context inference,ubiquitous computing,multi-user environment,multiuser contexts,information granularity,individual activity recognition,feature extraction,tv,hidden markov models,sensors,context modeling
Activity recognition,Computer science,Inference,Home automation,Context model,Feature extraction,Artificial intelligence,Granularity,Ubiquitous computing,Hidden Markov model,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
2153-0858
978-1-4673-1737-5
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.47
8
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chaolin Wu123726.05
Mao-Yung Weng2172.38
Ching-Hu Lu320025.12
Li-Chen Fu41419196.64