Full-Body Activity Recognition Using Inertial Signals

This paper describes the development of a Human Activity Recognition (HAR) system based on deep learning for classifying full-body activities using inertial signals. The HAR system is divided into several modules: a preprocessing module for extracting relevant features from the inertial signals window-by-window, a machine learning algorithm for classifying the windows and a post-processing module for integrating the information along several windows. Regarding the preprocessing module, several transformations are implemented and evaluated. For the ML module, several algorithms are evaluated, including several deep learning architectures. This evaluation has been carried out over the HARTH dataset. This public dataset contains recordings from 22 participants wearing two 3-axial Axivity AX3 accelerometers for 2 h in a free-living setting. Not all the subjects completed the whole session. Sixteen different activities were recorded and annotated accordingly. This paper describes the fine-tuning process of several machine learning algorithms and analyses their performance with different sets of activities. The best results show an accuracy of 90% and 93% for 12 and nine activities, respectively. To the author’s knowledge, these analyses provide the best state-of-the-art results over this public dataset. Additionally, this paper includes several analyses of the confusion between the different activities.