Modeling Human Activity Recognition with Deep Convolutional Neural Networks and Wearable Sensor Data

Abstract

Automatic Human activity Recognition has many applications in smart environments such as in smart homes, smart cities, smart industries, smart healthcare centers, etc. While performing the activities by the participants, ambient or body-worn sensors can measure physical movements and those data can be used to develop machine learning models for recognizing those activities. In this study, we have proposed a deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) based method for recognizing human activities using body-worn sensors’ time-series data after an enormous data analysis on the data. The quality data is produced and balanced using a preprocessing chain for human activity recognition based on data analysis. The Preprocessed data is segmented using a constant-size sliding window. We developed several different DCNN models using random searches and based on validation accuracy we selected the best one for further training and testing. The outcomes of the selected model are carried out as the final predicted activities. We assessed our method on three popular and standard datasets: PAMAP2, WISDM_ar_v1.1, and UCI-HAR, and achieved 98.11%, 98.48%, and 93.25% accuracies for subject-dependent case and 90.27%, 94.51%, and 98.67% accuracies for subject-independent case. The performances of the experimental results are measured using several evaluation metrics and measures that institute the strength of the proposed model over the state-of-the-art.