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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2018

Context Impacts in Accelerometer-Based Walk Detection and Step Counting.

Buke Ao, Yongcai Wang, Hongnan Liu, Deying Li, Lei Song, Jianqiang Li

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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 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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6 authors.

Buke AoSchool of Information and Communication Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China. aobuke@hotmail.com.ORCID 0000-0003-1476-4194
Yongcai WangSchool of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China. ycw@ruc.edu.cn.
Hongnan LiuSchool of Software, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. lhn08@tsinghua.org.cn.
Deying LiSchool of Information, Renmin University of China, Beijing 100872, China. deyingli@ruc.edu.cn.
Lei SongInstitute for Interdisciplinary Information Sciences, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China. leisong03@gmail.com.
Jianqiang LiSchool of Software, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing 100081, China. lijianqiang@bjut.edu.cn.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Walk detection (WD) and step counting (SC) have become popular applications in the recent emergence of wearable devices. These devices monitor user states and process data from MEMS-based accelerometers and optional gyroscope sensors. Various algorithms have been proposed for WD and SC, which are generally sensitive to the contexts of applications, i.e., (1) the locations of sensor placement; (2) the sensor orientations; (3) the user's walking patterns; (4) the preprocessing window sizes; and (5) the sensor sampling rates. A thorough understanding of how these dynamic factors affect the algorithms' performances is investigated and compared in this paper. In particular, representative WD and SC algorithms are introduced according to their design methodologies. A series of experiments is designed in consideration of different application contexts to form an experimental dataset. Different algorithms are then implemented and evaluated on the dataset. The evaluation results provide a quantitative performance comparison indicating the advantages and weaknesses of different algorithms under different application scenarios, giving valuable guidance for algorithm selection in practical applications.

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AccelerometryAlgorithmsGaitHumansMachine LearningMonitoring, PhysiologicWalkinggait analysismachine learningsignal processingstep countingwalk detection

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PMID30352984
PMCPMC6263649

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