학술논문

Discovery and Recognition of Emerging Human Activities Using a Hierarchical Mixture of Directional Statistical Models
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on. 32(7):1304-1316 Jul, 2020
Subject
Computing and Processing
Data models
Activity recognition
Training
Training data
Kernel
Mixture models
Smart homes
online learning
incremental learning
active learning
semi-supervised learning
mixture model
von Mises-Fisher distribution
hierarchical mixture
hierarchical clustering
pervasive computing
smart home
Language
ISSN
1041-4347
1558-2191
2326-3865
Abstract
Human activity recognition plays a significant role in enabling pervasive applications as it abstracts low-level noisy sensor data into high-level human activities, which applications can respond to. With more and more activity-aware applications deployed in real-world environments, a research challenge emerges—discovering and learning new activities that have not been pre-defined or observed in the training phase. This paper tackles this challenge by proposing a hierarchical mixture of directional statistical models. The model supports incrementally, continuously updating the activity model over time with the reduced annotation effort and without the need for storing historical sensor data. We have validated this solution on four publicly available, third-party smart home datasets, and have demonstrated up to 91.5 percent accuracies of detecting and recognising new activities.