An activity monitoring system for elderly care using generative and discriminative models

An activity monitoring system allows many applications to assist in care giving for elderly in their homes. In this paper we present a wireless sensor network for unintrusive observations in the home and show the potential of generative and discriminative models for recognizing activities from such observations. Through a large number of experiments using four real world datasets we show the effectiveness of the generative hidden Markov model and the discriminative conditional random fields in activity recognition.

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