SLearn : shared learning human activity labels across multiple datasets

Abstract

The research of sensor-based human activity recognition has been attracting increasing attention over years as it is playing an important role in various human-beneficiary applications such as ambient assistive living, health monitoring, and behaviour changing. Nowadays, the advancement of sensing and communication technologies has led to the possibility of collecting a large amount of sensor data, however, to build a reliable computational model and accurately recognise human activities we still need the annotations on sensor data. Acquiring high-quality, detailed, continuous annotations is a challenging task. In this paper, we explore the solution space on sharing annotated activities across different datasets in order to enhance the recognition accuracies. We have designed and developed two approaches: sharing training data and sharing classifiers towards addressing this challenge. We have validated the approach on three datasets and demonstrated their effectiveness in recognising activities only with annotations from as little as 0.1% of each dataset.