Title
Classification of sporting activities using smartphone accelerometers.
Abstract
In this paper we present a framework that allows for the automatic identification of sporting activities using commonly available smartphones. We extract discriminative informational features from smartphone accelerometers using the Discrete Wavelet Transform (DWT). Despite the poor quality of their accelerometers, smartphones were used as capture devices due to their prevalence in today's society. Successful classification on this basis potentially makes the technology accessible to both elite and non-elite athletes. Extracted features are used to train different categories of classifiers. No one classifier family has a reportable direct advantage in activity classification problems to date; thus we examine classifiers from each of the most widely used classifier families. We investigate three classification approaches; a commonly used SVM-based approach, an optimized classification model and a fusion of classifiers. We also investigate the effect of changing several of the DWT input parameters, including mother wavelets, window lengths and DWT decomposition levels. During the course of this work we created a challenging sports activity analysis dataset, comprised of soccer and field-hockey activities. The average maximum F-measure accuracy of 87% was achieved using a fusion of classifiers, which was 6% better than a single classifier model and 23% better than a standard SVM approach.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.3390/s130405317
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
smartphone,classification,sport
Electronic engineering,Artificial intelligence,Discrete wavelet transform,Classifier (linguistics),Discriminative model,Wavelet,Activity classification,Pattern recognition,Accelerometer,Simulation,Support vector machine,Analysis Dataset,Engineering
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
13
4.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
39
1.67
27
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Edmond Mitchell1391.67
David S. Monaghan28511.48
Noel E. O'Connor32137223.20