Attend And Discriminate: Beyond the State-of-the-Art for Human Activity Recognition using Wearable Sensors

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2007.07172v1
• Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:44:16 GMT
• Title: Attend And Discriminate: Beyond the State-of-the-Art for Human Activity Recognition using Wearable Sensors
• Authors: Alireza Abedin, Mahsa Ehsanpour, Qinfeng Shi, Hamid Rezatofighi, Damith C. Ranasinghe
• Abstract summary: Wearables are fundamental to improving our understanding of human activities. We rigorously explore new opportunities to learn enriched and highly discriminating activity representations. Our contributions achieves new state-of-the-art performance on four diverse activity recognition problem benchmarks.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Wearables are fundamental to improving our understanding of human activities, especially for an increasing number of healthcare applications from rehabilitation to fine-grained gait analysis. Although our collective know-how to solve Human Activity Recognition (HAR) problems with wearables has progressed immensely with end-to-end deep learning paradigms, several fundamental opportunities remain overlooked. We rigorously explore these new opportunities to learn enriched and highly discriminating activity representations. We propose: i) learning to exploit the latent relationships between multi-channel sensor modalities and specific activities; ii) investigating the effectiveness of data-agnostic augmentation for multi-modal sensor data streams to regularize deep HAR models; and iii) incorporating a classification loss criterion to encourage minimal intra-class representation differences whilst maximising inter-class differences to achieve more discriminative features. Our contributions achieves new state-of-the-art performance on four diverse activity recognition problem benchmarks with large margins -- with up to 6% relative margin improvement. We extensively validate the contributions from our design concepts through extensive experiments, including activity misalignment measures, ablation studies and insights shared through both quantitative and qualitative studies.

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