Smartphone Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition Using Feature Fusion and Maximum Full a Posteriori

Zhenghua Chen, Chaoyang Jiang, Shili Xiang, Jie Ding, Min Wu, Xiaoli Li · IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement · 2019

Human activity recognition (HAR) using smartphone sensors has attracted great attention due to its wide range of applications. A standard solution for HAR is to first generate some features defined based on domain knowledge (handcraftedfeatures) and then to train an activity classification model based on these features. Very recently, deep learning withautomaticfeature learning from raw sensory data has also achieved great performance for HAR task. We believe that both thehandcraftedfeatures and thelearnedfeatures may convey some unique information that can complement each other for HAR. In this article, we first propose a feature fusion framework to combine handcrafted features with automatically learned features by a deep algorithm for HAR. Then, taking the regular dynamics of human behavior into consideration, we develop amaximum full a posteriorialgorithm to further enhance the performance of HAR. Our extensive experimental results show the proposed approach can achieve superior performance comparing with the state-of-the-art methodologies across both a public data set and a self-collected data set.

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