Segmentation of Human Body Movement Using Inertial Measurement Unit

This paper proposes an approach for the temporal segmentation of human body movements using IMU (Inertial Measurement Unit). The approach is based on online HMM-based segmentation of continuous time series data. In previous studies, the real-time segmentation of human body movement using joint angles acquired by optical motion capture has been realized, using stochastic motion modeling. The approach is now adapted for angular velocity data. The segmented motions are recognized via HMM models. The segmentation and recognition results of the proposed algorithm are demonstrated with experiments. Auto segmentation of each motion and recognition of motion patterns are verified using angular velocity data obtained by IMU sensors and the Wii remote. The success rate of auto segmentation using the data obtained by Wii remote was more than 80% on average.

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