Automatic Sensor-Based Detection and Classification of Climbing Activities

This paper presents a novel application of a machine learning method to automatically detect and classify climbing activities using inertial measurement units (IMUs) attached to the wrists, feet, and pelvis of the climber. This detection/classification can be useful for research in sport science to replace manual annotation where IMUs are becoming common. Detection requires a learning phase with manual annotation to construct statistical models. Full-body activity is then classified based on the detection of each IMU.

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