Comparison of Methods for Determining Activity from Physical Movements

Year 2021, Volume: 24 Issue: 1, 17 - 23, 01.03.2021

Mücahit Çalışan Muhammed Fatih Talu

https://doi.org/10.2339/politeknik.632070

Cited By: 3

Abstract

In this study, the methods which can detect the basic physical movements of a person (downward, upward, sitting, stop, walking, running) from inertial sensor (IMU) data are evaluated. The performances of classical (ANN, SVM, k-NN) and current approaches (Convolutional Neural Networks-ESA) to map IMU data to activity classes were compared. A three-stage study was carried out for this aim: 1) data acquisition; 2) creating training/test sets; 3) construction and classification of network architectures. At the stage of data acquisition, to obtain 6 different physical movements from 10 different people, the accelerometer sensor is placed on the persons. Repetitive movements of persons were recorded. At the second stage, the recorded long-term accelerometer data is divided into packages in the form of short-term windows. The training set of classical approaches was constructed by features extracting from each packet data containing one-dimensional acceleration information. The transformation of one-dimensional signals to a two-dimensional image matrix for the training set of the deep learning-based approaches was performed. In the third stage, ANN, SVM, k-NN and CNN architectures were constructed, and classification process was carried out. As a result of the experimental studies, it was found that the accuracy of IMU-activity mapping was 99% with the ANN method and 95% with the CNN method.

Keywords

Physical movement, determining activity, IMU, ANN, CNN

Comparison of Methods for Determining Activity from Physical Movements

Abstract

In this study, the
methods which can detect the basic physical movements of a person (downward,
upward, sitting, stop, walking, running) from inertial sensor data are evaluated.
The performances of classical and current approaches to map IMU data to
activity classes were compared. A three-stage study was carried out for this
aim: 1) data acquisition; 2) creating training/test sets; 3) construction and
classification of network architectures. At the stage of data acquisition, to
obtain 6 different physical movements from 10 different people, the
accelerometer sensor is placed on the persons. Repetitive movements of persons
were recorded. At the second stage, the recorded long-term accelerometer data
is divided into packages in the form of short-term windows. The training set of
classical approaches was constructed by features extracting from each packet
data containing one-dimensional acceleration information. The transformation of
one-dimensional signals to a two-dimensional image matrix for the training set
of the deep learning-based approaches was performed. In the third stage, ANN,
SVM, k-NN and CNN architectures were constructed, and classification process
was carried out. As a result of the experimental studies, it was found that the
accuracy of IMU-activity mapping was 99% with the ANN method and 95% with the
CNN method.

Keywords

Physical Movement, Determining Activity, IMU, ANN, CNN

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