Activity Recognition Using Context-Aware Infrastructure Ontology in Smart Home Domain

Nowadays, activity recognition has been proposed in several researches. It is attractive to improve the ability of the activity recognition system because existing research on activity recognition systems still have an error in an ambiguous cases. In this paper, we introduce the novel technique to improve the activity recognition system in smart home domain. We propose the three contributions in this research. Firstly, we design the context-aware infrastructure ontology for modelling the user's context in the smart home. The innovative data, human posture, is added into the user's context for reducing the ambiguous cases. Secondly, we propose the concepts to distinguish the activities by object-based and location-based concepts. We also present the description logic (DL) rules for making the human activity decision based on our proposed concepts. Lastly, We conduct the Ontology Based Activity Recognition (OBAR) system for two purposes: to recognize the human activity, and to search the semantic information in the system, called semantic ontology search (SOS) system. The results show the system can recognize the human activity correctly and also reduce the ambiguous case.

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