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ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2020

Performance Analysis of Boosting Classifiers in Recognizing Activities of Daily Living.

Saifur Rahman, Muhammad Irfan, Mohsin Raza, Khawaja Moyeezullah Ghori, Shumayla Yaqoob, Muhammad Awais

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Saifur RahmanElectrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Najran University, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad IrfanElectrical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Najran University, Najran 61441, Saudi Arabia.ORCID 0000-0003-4161-6875
Mohsin RazaDepartment of Computer and Information Sciences, Northumbria University, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 8ST, UK.
Khawaja Moyeezullah GhoriDepartment of Computer Science, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.ORCID 0000-0003-1746-8294
Shumayla YaqoobDepartment of Computer Science, National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan.
Muhammad AwaisFaculty of Medicine and Health, School of Psychology, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6421-9245

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Abstract

Physical activity is essential for physical and mental health, and its absence is highly associated with severe health conditions and disorders. Therefore, tracking activities of daily living can help promote quality of life. Wearable sensors in this regard can provide a reliable and economical means of tracking such activities, and such sensors are readily available in smartphones and watches. This study is the first of its kind to develop a wearable sensor-based physical activity classification system using a special class of supervised machine learning approaches called boosting algorithms. The study presents the performance analysis of several boosting algorithms (extreme gradient boosting-XGB, light gradient boosting machine-LGBM, gradient boosting-GB, cat boosting-CB and AdaBoost) in a fair and unbiased performance way using uniform dataset, feature set, feature selection method, performance metric and cross-validation techniques. The study utilizes the Smartphone-based dataset of thirty individuals. The results showed that the proposed method could accurately classify the activities of daily living with very high performance (above 90%). These findings suggest the strength of the proposed system in classifying activity of daily living using only the smartphone sensor's data and can assist in reducing the physical inactivity patterns to promote a healthier lifestyle and wellbeing.

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