TY - JOUR PY - 2018// TI - Assessment of homomorphic analysis for human activity recognition from acceleration signals JO - IEEE journal of biomedical and health informatics A1 - Vanrell, Sebastian Rodrigo A1 - Milone, Diego Humberto A1 - Rufiner, Hugo Leonardo SP - 1001 EP - 1010 VL - 22 IS - 4 N2 - Unobtrusive activity monitoring can provide valuable information for medical and sports applications. In recent years, human activity recognition has moved to wearable sensors to deal with unconstrained scenarios. Accelerometers are the preferred sensors due to their simplicity and availability. Previous studies have examined several azul{classic} techniques for extracting features from acceleration signals, including time-domain, time-frequency, frequency-domain, and other heuristic features. Spectral and temporal features are the preferred ones and they are generally computed from acceleration components, leaving the acceleration magnitude potential unexplored. In this study, based on homomorphic analysis, a new type of feature extraction stage is proposed in order to exploit discriminative activity information present in acceleration signals. Homomorphic analysis can isolate the information about whole body dynamics and translate it into a compact representation, called cepstral coefficients. Experiments have explored several configurations of the proposed features, including size of representation, signals to be used, and fusion with other features. Cepstral features computed from acceleration magnitude obtained one of the highest recognition rates. In addition, a beneficial contribution was found when time-domain and moving pace information was included in the feature vector. Overall, the proposed system achieved a recognition rate of 91.21% on the publicly available SCUT-NAA dataset. To the best of our knowledge, this is the highest recognition rate on this dataset.

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LA - en SN - 2168-2194 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/JBHI.2017.2722870 ID - ref1 ER -