Physical Activity Recognition Using Posterior-Adapted Class-Based Fusion of Multiaccelerometer Data

This paper proposes the use of posterior-adapted class-based weighted decision fusion to effectively combine multiple accelerometer data for improving physical activity recognition. The cutting-edge performance of this method is benchmarked against model-based weighted fusion and class-based weighted fusion without posterior adaptation, based on two publicly available datasets, namely PAMAP2 and MHEALTH. Experimental results show that: 1) posterior-adapted class-based weighted fusion outperformed model-based and class-based weighted fusion; 2) decision fusion with two accelerometers showed statistically significant improvement in average performance compared to the use of a single accelerometer; 3) generally, decision fusion from three accelerometers did not show further improvement from the best combination of two accelerometers; and 4) a combination of ankle and wrist located accelerometers showed the best overall performance compared to any combination of two or three accelerometers.

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