Title
Indoor human activity recognition using high-dimensional sensors and deep neural networks
Abstract
Many smart home applications rely on indoor human activity recognition. This challenge is currently primarily tackled by employing video camera sensors. However, the use of such sensors is characterized by fundamental technical deficiencies in an indoor environment, often also resulting in a breach of privacy. In contrast, a radar sensor resolves most of these flaws and maintains privacy in particular. In this paper, we investigate a novel approach toward automatic indoor human activity recognition, feeding high-dimensional radar and video camera sensor data into several deep neural networks. Furthermore, we explore the efficacy of sensor fusion to provide a solution in less than ideal circumstances. We validate our approach on two newly constructed and published data sets that consist of 2347 and 1505 samples distributed over six different types of gestures and events, respectively. From our analysis, we can conclude that, when considering a radar sensor, it is optimal to make use of a three-dimensional convolutional neural network that takes as input sequential range-Doppler maps. This model achieves 12.22% and 2.97% error rate on the gestures and the events data set, respectively. A pretrained residual network is employed to deal with the video camera sensor data and obtains 1.67% and 3.00% error rate on the same data sets. We show that there exists a clear benefit in combining both sensors to enable activity recognition in the case of less than ideal circumstances.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1007/s00521-019-04408-1
NEURAL COMPUTING & APPLICATIONS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Activity recognition,Deep neural networks,High-dimensional sensors,Sensor fusion
Journal
32.0
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
16
0941-0643
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.35
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Baptist Vandersmissen1385.79
Nicolas Knudde210.35
Jalalvand, Azarakhsh3697.71
Ivo Couckuyt412616.14
Tom Dhaene535157.27
Wesley De Neve652554.41