Recognizing Daily and Sports Activities in Two Open Source Machine Learning Environments Using Body-Worn Sensor Units

• Published in: Computer journal Vol. 57; no. 11; pp. 1649 - 1667
• Main Authors: Barshan, B., Yuksek, M. C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford Publishing Limited (England) 01.11.2014
• Subjects: Comparative analysis; Machine learning; Neural networks; Normal distribution; Principal components analysis; Sensors; Sports; Support vector machines

This study provides a comparative assessment on the different techniques of classifying human activities performed while wearing inertial and magnetic sensor units on the chest, arms and legs. The gyroscope, accelerometer and the magnetometer in each unit are tri-axial. Naive Bayesian classifier, ar...