Unobtrusive Sensing Incremental Social Contexts Using Class Incremental Learning

• Published in: Proceedings (IEEE International Conference on Data Mining) pp. 71 - 80
• Main Authors: Chen, Zhenyu, Chen, Yiqiang, Gao, Xingyu, Wang, Shuangquan, Hu, Lisha, Yan, Chenggang Clarence, Lane, Nicholas D, Miao, Chunyan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 01.11.2015
• Subjects: Bluetooth; Classifiers; Data mining; Detection; Dynamics; Learning; Recognition; Sensors
• ISSN: 1550-4786
• DOI: 10.1109/ICDM.2015.156

By utilizing captured characteristics of surrounding contexts through widely used Bluetooth sensor, user-centric social contexts can be effectively sensed and discovered by dynamic Bluetooth information. At present, state-of-the-art approaches for building classifiers can basically recognize limited classes trained in the learning phase; however, due to the complex diversity of social contextual behavior, the built classifier seldom deals with newly appeared contexts, which results in degrading the recognition performance greatly. To address this problem, we propose, an OSELM (online sequential extreme learning machine) based class incremental learning method for continuous and unobtrusive sensing new classes of social contexts from dynamic Bluetooth data alone. We integrate fuzzy clustering technique and OSELM to discover and recognize social contextual behaviors by real-world Bluetooth sensor data. Experimental results show that our method can automatically cope with incremental classes of social contexts that appear unpredictably in the real-world. Further, our proposed method have the effective recognition capability for both original known classes and newly appeared unknown classes, respectively.