epSICAR: an emerging patterns based approach to sequential, interleaved and concurrent activity recognition

Tao Gu, Zhanqing Wu, Xianping Tao, Hung Keng Pung, Jian Lu

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Abstract

Recognizing human activities from sensor readings has recently attracted much research interest in pervasive computing. This task is particularly challenging because human activities are often performed in not only a simple (i.e., sequential), but also a complex (i.e., interleaved and concurrent) manner in real life. In this paper, we propose a novel emerging patterns based approach to sequential, interleaved and concurrent activity recognition (epSICAR). We exploit emerging patterns as powerful discriminators to differentiate activities. Different from other learning-based models built upon the training dataset for complex activities, we build our activity models by mining a set of emerging patterns from the sequential activity trace only and apply these models in recognizing sequential, interleaved and concurrent activities. We conduct our empirical studies in a real smart home, and the evaluation results demonstrate that with a time slice of 15 seconds, we achieve an accuracy of 90.96% for sequential activity, 87.98% for interleaved activity and 78.58% for concurrent activity.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2009 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2009)
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Pages1-9
Number of pages9
ISBN (Electronic)9781424433049
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2009
Externally publishedYes
EventIEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (7th : 2009)
- Galveston, United States
Duration: 9 Mar 200913 Mar 2009

Conference

ConferenceIEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (7th : 2009)
Abbreviated titlePerCom 2009
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityGalveston
Period9/03/0913/03/09

Keywords

  • activity recognition
  • emerging patterns
  • sequential
  • interleaved and concurrent activities
  • wireless sensor networks

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