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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2019

Neural Network Ensembles for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition Within Smart Environments.

Naomi Irvine, Chris Nugent, Shuai Zhang, Hui Wang, Wing W Y Ng

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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13citing papers in PubMed
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 75 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Naomi IrvineSchool of Computing, Ulster University, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland BT37 0QB, UK.
Chris NugentSchool of Computing, Ulster University, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland BT37 0QB, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-0882-7902
Shuai ZhangSchool of Computing, Ulster University, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland BT37 0QB, UK.
Hui WangSchool of Computing, Ulster University, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland BT37 0QB, UK.
Wing W Y NgSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou 510640, China.ORCID 0000-0003-0783-3585
University of Ulster · GBSouth China University of Technology · CN

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this paper, we focus on data-driven approaches to human activity recognition (HAR). Data-driven approaches rely on good quality data during training, however, a shortage of high quality, large-scale, and accurately annotated HAR datasets exists for recognizing activities of daily living (ADLs) within smart environments. The contributions of this paper involve improving the quality of an openly available HAR dataset for the purpose of data-driven HAR and proposing a new ensemble of neural networks as a data-driven HAR classifier. Specifically, we propose a homogeneous ensemble neural network approach for the purpose of recognizing activities of daily living within a smart home setting. Four base models were generated and integrated using a support function fusion method which involved computing an output decision score for each base classifier. The contribution of this work also involved exploring several approaches to resolving conflicts between the base models. Experimental results demonstrated that distributing data at a class level greatly reduces the number of conflicts that occur between the base models, leading to an increased performance prior to the application of conflict resolution techniques. Overall, the best HAR performance of 80.39% was achieved through distributing data at a class level in conjunction with a conflict resolution approach, which involved calculating the difference between the highest and second highest predictions per conflicting model and awarding the final decision to the model with the highest differential value.

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EnvironmentHuman ActivitiesNeural Networks, ComputerPattern Recognition, AutomatedDatabases as TopicHumansModels, TheoreticalSupport Vector Machineensemble neural networkshuman activity recognitionmodel conflict resolutionneural networkssmart environments

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PMID31905991
PMCPMC6982871
OpenAlexW2998094553

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