Sensor data acquisition and processing parameters for human activity classification

Sebastian Bersch, Djamel Azzi, Rinat Khusainov, Ifeyinwa Achumba, Jana Ries

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    Abstract

    It is known that parameter selection for data sampling frequency and segmentation techniques (including different methods and window sizes) has an impact on the classification accuracy. For Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), no clear information to select these parameters exists, hence a wide variety and inconsistency across today’s literature is observed. This paper presents the empirical investigation of different data sampling rates, segmentation techniques and segmentation window sizes and their effect on the accuracy of Activity of Daily Living (ADL) event classification and computational load for two different accelerometer sensor datasets. The study is conducted using an ANalysis Of VAriance (ANOVA) based on 32 different window sizes, three different segmentation algorithm (with and without overlap, totaling in six different parameters) and six sampling frequencies for nine common classification algorithms. The classification accuracy is based on a feature vector consisting of Root Mean Square (RMS), Mean, Signal Magnitude Area (SMA), Signal Vector Magnitude (here SMV), Energy, Entropy, FFTPeak, Standard Deviation (STD). The results are presented alongside recommendations for the parameter selection on the basis of the best performing parameter combinations that are identified by means of the corresponding Pareto curve.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)4239-4270
    Number of pages32
    JournalSensors
    Volume14
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 4 Mar 2014

    Keywords

    • Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)
    • data acquistion
    • data sampling
    • event classification
    • optimization

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