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Human activity recognition

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Human Activity Recognition Based On Multimodal Body Sensing, Anish Hemant Narkhede May 2019

Human Activity Recognition Based On Multimodal Body Sensing, Anish Hemant Narkhede

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In the recent years, human activity recognition has been widely popularized by a lot of smartphone manufacturers and fitness tracking companies. It has allowed us to gain a deeper insight into our physical health on a daily basis. However, with the evolution of fitness tracking devices and smartphones, the amount of data that is being captured by these devices is growing exponentially. This paper aims at understanding the process of dimensionality reduction such as PCA so that the data can be used to make meaningful predictions along with novel techniques using autoencoders with different activation functions. The paper also looks …


Sensor - Based Human Activity Recognition Using Smartphones, Mustafa Badshah May 2019

Sensor - Based Human Activity Recognition Using Smartphones, Mustafa Badshah

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It is a significant technical and computational task to provide precise information regarding the activity performed by a human and find patterns of their behavior. Countless applications can be molded and various problems in domains of virtual reality, health and medical, entertainment and security can be solved with advancements in human activity recognition (HAR) systems. HAR is an active field for research for more than a decade, but certain aspects need to be addressed to improve the system and revolutionize the way humans interact with smartphones. This research provides a holistic view of human activity recognition system architecture and discusses …