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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2022

Comparing Handcrafted Features and Deep Neural Representations for Domain Generalization in Human Activity Recognition.

Nuno Bento, Joana Rebelo, Marília Barandas, André V Carreiro, Andrea Campagner, Federico Cabitza, Hugo Gamboa

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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 10 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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7 authors.

Nuno BentoAssociação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Rua Alfredo Allen 455/461, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-7279-1890
Joana RebeloAssociação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Rua Alfredo Allen 455/461, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0003-0385-053X
Marília BarandasAssociação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Rua Alfredo Allen 455/461, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-9445-4809
André V CarreiroAssociação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Rua Alfredo Allen 455/461, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-4234-5336
Andrea CampagnerDipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-0027-5157
Federico CabitzaDipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, 20126 Milan, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-4065-3415
Hugo GamboaAssociação Fraunhofer Portugal Research, Rua Alfredo Allen 455/461, 4200-135 Porto, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0002-4022-7424

Funding

Eureka Eurostars E!114310
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has been studied extensively, yet current approaches are not capable of generalizing across different domains (i.e., subjects, devices, or datasets) with acceptable performance. This lack of generalization hinders the applicability of these models in real-world environments. As deep neural networks are becoming increasingly popular in recent work, there is a need for an explicit comparison between handcrafted and deep representations in Out-of-Distribution (OOD) settings. This paper compares both approaches in multiple domains using homogenized public datasets. First, we compare several metrics to validate three different OOD settings. In our main experiments, we then verify that even though deep learning initially outperforms models with handcrafted features, the situation is reversed as the distance from the training distribution increases. These findings support the hypothesis that handcrafted features may generalize better across specific domains.

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Human ActivitiesNeural Networks, ComputerHumansRecognition, Psychologyaccelerometerdeep learningdomain generalizationhuman activity recognition

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PMID36236427
PMCPMC9572241

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