Title
Similarity Embedding Networks for Robust Human Activity Recognition
Abstract
AbstractDeep learning models for human activity recognition (HAR) based on sensor data have been heavily studied recently. However, the generalization ability of deep models on complex real-world HAR data is limited by the availability of high-quality labeled activity data, which are hard to obtain. In this article, we design a similarity embedding neural network that maps input sensor signals onto real vectors through carefully designed convolutional and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) layers. The embedding network is trained with a pairwise similarity loss, encouraging the clustering of samples from the same class in the embedded real space, and can be effectively trained on a small dataset and even on a noisy dataset with mislabeled samples. Based on the learned embeddings, we further propose both nonparametric and parametric approaches for activity recognition. Extensive evaluation based on two public datasets has shown that the proposed similarity embedding network significantly outperforms state-of-the-art deep models on HAR classification tasks, is robust to mislabeled samples in the training set, and can also be used to effectively denoise a noisy dataset.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1145/3448021
ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Human activity recognition, embedding network, pairwise loss, noise robust
Journal
15
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
6
1556-4681
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chenglin Li100.34
Carrie Lu Tong200.34
Di Niu345341.73
Bei Jiang472.84
Xiao Zuo500.68
Lei Cheng610.69
Jian Xiong75515.08
Jianming Yang8102.62