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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Personalized Activity Recognition with Deep Triplet Embeddings.

David Burns, Philip Boyer, Colin Arrowsmith, Cari Whyne

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. CRoP: Context-wise Robust Static Human-Sensing Personalization.Proceedings of the ACM on interactive, mobile, wearable and ubiquitous technologies · 2025
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4 authors.

David BurnsOrthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Holland Bone and Joint Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-1617-596X
Philip BoyerOrthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Holland Bone and Joint Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-9768-8037
Colin ArrowsmithOrthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Holland Bone and Joint Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0003-1938-0210
Cari WhyneOrthopaedic Biomechanics Laboratory, Holland Bone and Joint Program, Sunnybrook Research Institute, Toronto, ON M4N 3M5, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-6822-8314

Funding

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada and Canadian Institutes of Health Research CHRP-538866the Susanne and William Holland Surgeon Scientist Award the Susanne and William Holland Surgeon Scientist AwardWorkplace Safety and Insurance Board of Ontario RICH2018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A significant challenge for a supervised learning approach to inertial human activity recognition is the heterogeneity of data generated by individual users, resulting in very poor performance for some subjects. We present an approach to personalized activity recognition based on deep feature representation derived from a convolutional neural network (CNN). We experiment with both categorical cross-entropy loss and triplet loss for training, and describe a novel loss function based on subject triplets. We evaluate these methods on three publicly available inertial human activity recognition datasets (MHEALTH, WISDM, and SPAR) comparing classification accuracy, out-of-distribution activity detection, and generalization to new activity classes. The proposed triplet algorithm achieved an average 96.7% classification accuracy across tested datasets versus the 87.5% achieved by the baseline CNN algorithm. We demonstrate that personalized algorithms, and, in particular, the proposed novel triplet loss algorithms, are more robust to inter-subject variability and thus exhibit better performance on classification and out-of-distribution detection tasks.

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AlgorithmsNeural Networks, ComputerHuman ActivitiesHumanshuman activity recognitioninertial sensorsmachine learningpersonalized algorithmstime seriestriplet neural network

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PMID35890902
PMCPMC9324610

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