Title
Using deep data augmentation training to address software and hardware heterogeneities in wearable and smartphone sensing devices.
Abstract
A small variation in mobile hardware and software can potentially cause a significant heterogeneity or variation in the sensor data each device collects. For example, the microphone and accelerometer sensors on different devices can respond very differently to the same audio or motion phenomena. Other factors, like the instantaneous computational load on a smartphone, can cause key behavior like sensor sampling rates to fluctuate, further polluting the data. When sensing devices are deployed in unconstrained and real-world conditions, examples of sharply lower classification accuracy are observed due to what is collectively known as the sensing system heterogeneity. In this work, we take an unconventional approach and argue against solving individual forms of heterogeneity, e.g., improving OS behavior, or the quality/uniformity of components. Instead, we propose and build classifiers that themselves are more tolerant of these variations by leveraging deep learning and a data-augmented training process. Neither augmentation nor deep learning has previously been attempted to cope with sensor heterogeneity. We systematically investigate how these two machine learning methodologies can be adapted to solve such problems, and identify when and where they are able to be successful. We find that our proposed approach is able to reduce classifier errors on an average by 9% and 17% for a range of inertial- and audio-based mobile classification tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/IPSN.2018.00048
IPSN
Keywords
Field
DocType
machine learning,embedded systems,deep learning,sensor heterogeneities
Accelerometer,Computer science,Wearable computer,Robustness (computer science),Real-time computing,Software,Artificial intelligence,Deep learning,Computer hardware,Classifier (linguistics),Microphone,3D reconstruction
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5386-5298-5
4
0.38
References 
Authors
29
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Akhil Mathur114515.21
Tianlin Zhang23411.57
Sourav Bhattacharya362452.45
Petar Veličković41510.37
Leonid Joffe540.72
Nicholas D. Lane64247248.15
Fahim Kawsar790980.24
Pietro Lio86316.20