Multi-sensor fusion based on multiple classifier systems for human activity identification

Human-centric Computing and Information Sciences

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[1] 0000 0001 2308 5949, grid.10347.31, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;0000 0001 2308 5949, grid.10347.31, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;0000 0001 2033 5930, grid.412141.3, Computer Science Department, Ebonyi State University, P.M.B 053, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria;0000 0001 2308 5949, grid.10347.31, Department of Information Systems, Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, University of Malaya, 50603, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia;0000 0004 0609 4757, grid.442838.1, Department of Computer Science, Sukkur IBA University, 65200, Sukkur, Pakistan;0000 0004 0634 1084, grid.412603.2, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Department, Qatar University, 2713, Doha, Qatar;Computer Science Department, Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State, Nigeria;

关键词: Wearable sensors;    Multiple classifier systems;    Activity identification;    Multiple sensor fusion;    Activity detection;    Multi-view stacking ensemble;    Feature-level fusion;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s13673-019-0194-5

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【 摘 要 】

Multimodal sensors in healthcare applications have been increasingly researched because it facilitates automatic and comprehensive monitoring of human behaviors, high-intensity sports management, energy expenditure estimation, and postural detection. Recent studies have shown the importance of multi-sensor fusion to achieve robustness, high-performance generalization, provide diversity and tackle challenging issue that maybe difficult with single sensor values. The aim of this study is to propose an innovative multi-sensor fusion framework to improve human activity detection performances and reduce misrecognition rate. The study proposes a multi-view ensemble algorithm to integrate predicted values of different motion sensors. To this end, computationally efficient classification algorithms such as decision tree, logistic regression and k-Nearest Neighbors were used to implement diverse, flexible and dynamic human activity detection systems. To provide compact feature vector representation, we studied hybrid bio-inspired evolutionary search algorithm and correlation-based feature selection method and evaluate their impact on extracted feature vectors from individual sensor modality. Furthermore, we utilized Synthetic Over-sampling minority Techniques (SMOTE) algorithm to reduce the impact of class imbalance and improve performance results. With the above methods, this paper provides unified framework to resolve major challenges in human activity identification. The performance results obtained using two publicly available datasets showed significant improvement over baseline methods in the detection of specific activity details and reduced error rate. The performance results of our evaluation showed 3% to 24% improvement in accuracy, recall, precision, F-measure and detection ability (AUC) compared to single sensors and feature-level fusion. The benefit of the proposed multi-sensor fusion is the ability to utilize distinct feature characteristics of individual sensor and multiple classifier systems to improve recognition accuracy. In addition, the study suggests a promising potential of hybrid feature selection approach, diversity-based multiple classifier systems to improve mobile and wearable sensor-based human activity detection and health monitoring system.

【 授权许可】

CC BY