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Representation learning for minority and subtle activities in a smart home environment

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22/07/2019
Author
Rosales Sanabria, Andrea
Kelsey, Thomas William
Ye, Juan
Keywords
Smart home
Activity recognition
Dissimilarity representation
Representation learning
QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science
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Abstract
Daily human activity recognition using sensor data can be a fundamental task for many real-world applications, such as home monitoring and assisted living. One of the challenges in human activity recognition is to distinguish activities that have infrequent occurrence and less distinctive patterns. We propose a dissimilarity representation-based hierarchical classifier to perform two-phase learning. In the first phase, the classifier learns general features to recognise majority classes, and the second phase is to collect minority and subtle classes to identify fine difference between them. We compare our approach with a collection of state-of-the-art classification techniques on a real-world third-party dataset that is collected in a two-user home setting. Our results demonstrate that our hierarchical classifier approach outperforms the existing techniques in distinguishing users in performing the same type of activities. The key novelty of our approach is the exploration of dissimilarity representations and hierarchical classifiers, which allows us to highlight the difference between activities with subtle difference, and thus allows the identification of well-discriminating features.
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Rosales Sanabria , A , Kelsey , T W & Ye , J 2019 , Representation learning for minority and subtle activities in a smart home environment . in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2019) . , 8767417 , IEEE Computer Society , IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2019) , Kyoto , Japan , 12/03/19 . https://doi.org/10.1109/percom.2019.8767417
 
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Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2019)
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https://doi.org/10.1109/percom.2019.8767417
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© 2019, IEEE. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher's policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOM.2019.8767417
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https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8767417
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18174

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