Online Human Activity Recognition using Low-Power Wearable Devices

Human activity recognition (HAR) has attracted significant research interest due to its applications in health monitoring and patient rehabilitation. Recent research on HAR focuses on using smartphones due to their widespread use. However, this leads to inconvenient use, limited choice of sensors an...

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Published in2018 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design (ICCAD) pp. 1 - 8
Main Authors Bhat, Ganapati, Deb, Ranadeep, Chaurasia, Vatika Vardhan, Shill, Holly, Ogras, Umit Y.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published ACM 05.11.2018
Subjects
Accelerometers
Activity recognition
Microsoft Windows
Power demand
Smart phones
Training
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Summary:Human activity recognition (HAR) has attracted significant research interest due to its applications in health monitoring and patient rehabilitation. Recent research on HAR focuses on using smartphones due to their widespread use. However, this leads to inconvenient use, limited choice of sensors and inefficient use of resources, since smartphones are not designed for HAR. This paper presents the first HAR framework that can perform both online training and inference. The proposed framework starts with a novel technique that generates features using the fast Fourier and discrete wavelet transforms of a textile-based stretch sensor and accelerometer data. Using these features, we design a neural network classifier which is trained online using the policy gradient algorithm. Experiments on a low power IoT device (T1-CC2650 MCU) with nine users show 97.7% accuracy in identifying six activities and their transitions with less than 12.5 mW power consumption.
ISSN:1558-2434
DOI:10.1145/3240765.3240833