Title
A Frequent Pattern Mining Approach for ADLs Recognition in Smart Environments
Abstract
This paper presents an approach for recognition of Activities of Daily Living (ADLs) in smart environments. Our approach is based on the frequent pattern mining principle to extract frequent patterns in the datasets collected from different sensors disseminated in a smart environment. In contrast with existing intrusive activity recognition approaches that have been proposed in the literature, where the datasets are basically composed of audio-visual or images files recorded during experiments, our approach is fully non-intrusive and it is based on the analysis of event sequences collected from heterogenous sensors. Our approach consists of two main phases, (1) frequent pattern mining to extract frequent patterns, and (2) activity recognition using a mapping function between the extracted frequent patterns and the activity models. We show through experiments how our approach accurately recognizes tasks as well as activities and outperforms the HMM model.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1109/AINA.2011.13
AINA
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
different sensor,smart environment,frequent pattern mining principle,smart environments,hmm model,activity model,intrusive activity recognition approach,frequent pattern mining approach,heterogenous sensor,adls recognition,activity recognition,frequent pattern mining,frequent pattern,activity of daily living,pattern recognition,data mining,intelligent sensor,hidden markov model,sensors,hidden markov models,sequence mining,accuracy,smart home,intelligent sensors
Conference
1550-445X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
14
0.67
28
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Belkacem Chikhaoui19410.77
Shengrui Wang284765.89
Hélène Pigot311514.81