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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2021

Out-of-Distribution Detection of Human Activity Recognition with Smartwatch Inertial Sensors.

Philip Boyer, David Burns, Cari Whyne

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Quantifying At-Home Physiotherapy Participation: SPARS vs Self-Reported Diaries.Archives of rehabilitation research and clinical translation · 2025
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  5. Data-Driven Quantitation of Movement Abnormality after Stroke.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023
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3 authors.

Philip BoyerOrthopaedic Biomechanics Lab, Holland Bone and Joint Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9768-8037
David BurnsDivision of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5S 1A1, Canada.
Cari WhyneOrthopaedic Biomechanics Lab, Holland Bone and Joint Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.

Funding

CIHR CPG-163963Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada CHRP-538866Workplace Safety and Insurance Board RICH2018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Out-of-distribution (OOD) in the context of Human Activity Recognition (HAR) refers to data from activity classes that are not represented in the training data of a Machine Learning (ML) algorithm. OOD data are a challenge to classify accurately for most ML algorithms, especially deep learning models that are prone to overconfident predictions based on in-distribution (IIN) classes. To simulate the OOD problem in physiotherapy, our team collected a new dataset (SPARS9x) consisting of inertial data captured by smartwatches worn by 20 healthy subjects as they performed supervised physiotherapy exercises (IIN), followed by a minimum 3 h of data captured for each subject as they engaged in unrelated and unstructured activities (OOD). In this paper, we experiment with three traditional algorithms for OOD-detection using engineered statistical features, deep learning-generated features, and several popular deep learning approaches on SPARS9x and two other publicly-available human activity datasets (MHEALTH and SPARS). We demonstrate that, while deep learning algorithms perform better than simple traditional algorithms such as KNN with engineered features for in-distribution classification, traditional algorithms outperform deep learning approaches for OOD detection for these HAR time series datasets.

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Human ActivitiesMachine LearningAlgorithmsExerciseExercise TherapyHumansanomaly detectionhuman activity recognitioninertial sensorsmachine learningopen set classificationout of distributionphysiotherapyrehabilitationsmart watch

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PMID33804317
PMCPMC7957807

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