Title
Activity Recognition Invariant to Sensor Orientation with Wearable Motion Sensors.
Abstract
Most activity recognition studies that employ wearable sensors assume that the sensors are attached at pre-determined positions and orientations that do not change over time. Since this is not the case in practice, it is of interest to develop wearable systems that operate invariantly to sensor position and orientation. We focus on invariance to sensor orientation and develop two alternative transformations to remove the effect of absolute sensor orientation from the raw sensor data. We test the proposed methodology in activity recognition with four state-of-the-art classifiers using five publicly available datasets containing various types of human activities acquired by different sensor configurations. While the ordinary activity recognition system cannot handle incorrectly oriented sensors, the proposed transformations allow the sensors to be worn at any orientation at a given position on the body, and achieve nearly the same activity recognition performance as the ordinary system for which the sensor units are not rotatable. The proposed techniques can be applied to existing wearable systems without much effort, by simply transforming the time-domain sensor data at the pre-processing stage.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.3390/s17081838
SENSORS
Keywords
Field
DocType
human activity recognition,wearable sensing,sensor orientation,orientation-invariant sensing,motion sensors,inertial sensors,accelerometer,gyroscope,magnetometer,singular value decomposition,machine learning,Bayesian decision making,k-nearest-neighbor classifier,support vector machines,artificial neural networks
Computer vision,Gyroscope,Activity recognition,Wearable computer,Accelerometer,Support vector machine,Invariant (mathematics),Inertial measurement unit,Artificial intelligence,Engineering,Artificial neural network
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
17
8.0
1424-8220
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
6
0.51
25
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Aras Yurtman1375.07
Billur Barshan231327.83