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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Comparison of Data Preprocessing Approaches for Applying Deep Learning to Human Activity Recognition in the Context of Industry 4.0.

Xiaochen Zheng, Meiqing Wang, Joaquín Ordieres-Meré

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.

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28 citing papers in PubMed.

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3 authors.

Xiaochen ZhengDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28006 Madrid, Spain. xiaochen.zheng@alumnos.upm.es.
Meiqing WangSchool of Mechanical Engineering and Automation, Beihang University (BUAA), Beijing 100083, China. sy1514206@buaa.edu.cn.
Joaquín Ordieres-MeréDepartment of Industrial Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28006 Madrid, Spain. j.ordieres@upm.es.ORCID 0000-0002-9677-6764

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

According to the Industry 4.0 paradigm, all objects in a factory, including people, are equipped with communication capabilities and integrated into cyber-physical systems (CPS). Human activity recognition (HAR) based on wearable sensors provides a method to connect people to CPS. Deep learning has shown surpassing performance in HAR. Data preprocessing is an important part of deep learning projects and takes up a large part of the whole analytical pipeline. Data segmentation and data transformation are two critical steps of data preprocessing. This study analyzes the impact of segmentation methods on deep learning model performance, and compares four data transformation approaches. An experiment with HAR based on acceleration data from multiple wearable devices was conducted. The multichannel method, which treats the data for the three axes as three overlapped color channels, produced the best performance. The highest overall recognition accuracy achieved was 97.20% for eight daily activities, based on the data from seven wearable sensors, which outperformed most of the other machine learning techniques. Moreover, the multichannel approach was applied to three public datasets and produced satisfying results for multi-source acceleration data. The proposed method can help better analyze workers’ activities and help to integrate people into CPS.

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Deep LearningHuman ActivitiesWearable Electronic DevicesAccelerationAdultFemaleHumansMaledata preprocessingdeep learningHuman Activity Recognition (HAR)Industry 4.0Internet of things (IoT)

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PMID29970873
PMCPMC6068555

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