Simple Yet Surprisingly Effective Training Strategies for LSTMs in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.13918v1
• Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2022 09:17:01 GMT
• Title: Simple Yet Surprisingly Effective Training Strategies for LSTMs in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition
• Authors: Shuai Shao, Yu Guan, Xin Guan, Paolo Missier, Thomas Ploetz
• Abstract summary: This paper studies some LSTM training strategies for sporadic activity recognition. We propose two simple yet effective LSTM variants, namely delay model and inverse model, for two SAR scenarios. The promising results demonstrated the effectiveness of our approaches in HAR applications.
• Score: 14.95985947077388
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is one of the core research areas in mobile and wearable computing. With the application of deep learning (DL) techniques such as CNN, recognizing periodic or static activities (e.g, walking, lying, cycling, etc.) has become a well studied problem. What remains a major challenge though is the sporadic activity recognition (SAR) problem, where activities of interest tend to be non periodic, and occur less frequently when compared with the often large amount of irrelevant background activities. Recent works suggested that sequential DL models (such as LSTMs) have great potential for modeling nonperiodic behaviours, and in this paper we studied some LSTM training strategies for SAR. Specifically, we proposed two simple yet effective LSTM variants, namely delay model and inverse model, for two SAR scenarios (with and without time critical requirement). For time critical SAR, the delay model can effectively exploit predefined delay intervals (within tolerance) in form of contextual information for improved performance. For regular SAR task, the second proposed, inverse model can learn patterns from the time series in an inverse manner, which can be complementary to the forward model (i.e.,LSTM), and combining both can boost the performance. These two LSTM variants are very practical, and they can be deemed as training strategies without alteration of the LSTM fundamentals. We also studied some additional LSTM training strategies, which can further improve the accuracy. We evaluated our models on two SAR and one non-SAR datasets, and the promising results demonstrated the effectiveness of our approaches in HAR applications.

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