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Daily activity recognition based on recurrent neural network using multi-modal signals

Akira Tamamori, Aichi Institute of Technology, Japan, akira-tamamori@aitech.ac.jp , Tomoki Hayashi, Nagoya University, Japan, Tomoki Toda, Nagoya University, Japan, Kazuya Takeda, Nagoya University, Japan
 
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Akira Tamamori, Tomoki Hayashi, Tomoki Toda and Kazuya Takeda (2018), "Daily activity recognition based on recurrent neural network using multi-modal signals", APSIPA Transactions on Signal and Information Processing: Vol. 7: No. 1, e21. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ATSIP.2018.25

Publication Date: 01 Jan 2018
© 2018 Akira Tamamori, Tomoki Hayashi, Tomoki Toda and Kazuya Takeda
 
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Human activity recognitionDeep neural networkRecurrent neural networkMulti-modal signal
 

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In this article:
I. INTRODUCTION 
II. A DIGEST OF PREVIOUS STUDY 
III. TOWARDS REALIZATION OF TARGET LIFE-LOGGING SYSTEM 
IV. EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION 
V. CONCLUSION 

Abstract

Our aim is to develop a smartphone-based life-logging system. Human activity recognition (HAR) is one of the core techniques to realize it. Recent studies reported the effectiveness of feed-forward neural network (FF-NN) and recurrent neural network (RNN) as a classifier for HAR task. However, there are still unresolved problems in those studies: (1) a life-logging system using only a smartphone for recording device has not been developed, (2) only indoor activities have been utilized for evaluation, (3) insufficient investigations/evaluations of RNN. In this study, we address these unresolved problems as follows: (1) we build a prototype system for life-logging and conduct data recording experiment on this system to include both indoor and outdoor activities. The experimental results of HAR on this new dataset showed that RNN-based classifier was still effective. (2) From the results of a HAR experiment, it was demonstrated that a multi-layered Simple Recurrent Unit with a non-linear transform at the bottom layer and a highway-connection was the most effective. (3) We could grasp the reason for the improvement of RNN from FF-NN by observing the posterior probabilities over test data.

DOI:10.1017/ATSIP.2018.25