Human activity recognition with user-free accelerometers in the sensor networks

Many applications using wireless sensor networks (WSNs) aim at providing friendly and intelligent services based on the recognition of human's activities. Although the research result on wearable computing has been fruitful, our experience indicates that a user-free sensor deployment is more natural and acceptable to users. In our system, activities were recognized through matching the movement patterns of the objects, to which tri-axial accelerometers had been attached. Several representative features, including accelerations and their fusion, were calculated and three classifiers were tested on these features. Compared with decision tree (DT) C4.5 and multiple-layer perception (MLP), support vector machine (SVM) performs relatively well across different tests. Additionally, feature selection are discussed for better system performance for WSNs

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