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Analyzing features for activity recognition

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This paper presents a systematic analysis of features computed from a real-world data set and shows how the choice of feature and the window length over which the feature is computed affects the recognition rates for different activities.
Abstract
Human activity is one of the most important ingredients of context information. In wearable computing scenarios, activities such as walking, standing and sitting can be inferred from data provided by body-worn acceleration sensors. In such settings, most approaches use a single set of features, regardless of which activity to be recognized. In this paper we show that recognition rates can be improved by careful selection of individual features for each activity. We present a systematic analysis of features computed from a real-world data set and show how the choice of feature and the window length over which the feature is computed affects the recognition rates for different activities. Finally, we give a recommendation of suitable features and window lengths for a set of common activities.

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Activity recognition from user-annotated acceleration data

TL;DR: This is the first work to investigate performance of recognition algorithms with multiple, wire-free accelerometers on 20 activities using datasets annotated by the subjects themselves, and suggests that multiple accelerometers aid in recognition.
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Activity recognition from accelerometer data

TL;DR: This paper reports on the efforts to recognize user activity from accelerometer data and performance of base-level and meta-level classifiers, and Plurality Voting is found to perform consistently well across different settings.
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Activity and location recognition using wearable sensors

TL;DR: Using measured acceleration and angular velocity data gathered through inexpensive, wearable sensors, this dead-reckoning method can determine a user's location, detect transitions between preselected locations, and recognize and classify sitting, standing, and walking behaviors.
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A hybrid discriminative/generative approach for modeling human activities

TL;DR: A hybrid approach to recognizing activities is presented, which combines boosting to discriminatively select useful features and learn an ensemble of static classifiers to recognize different activities, with hidden Markov models (HMMs) to capture the temporal regularities and smoothness of activities.
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Recognizing human motion with multiple acceleration sensors

TL;DR: In this paper experiments with acceleration sensors are described for human activity recognition of a wearable device user and the use of principal component analysis and independent component analysis with a wavelet transform is tested for feature generation.
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