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This study introduces a dynamic active learning method for activity recognition. It reduces annotation costs by identifying informative samples and discovering new activities, improving performance and enabling adaptive analysis.

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Area of Science:

Computer Science
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning

Background:

Activity recognition is crucial for assessing health and functional status.
Current methods face challenges with expensive data labeling and activity variability.
Supervised learning with fixed labels is often unsuitable due to diverse human behaviors.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a dynamic active learning method for activity recognition.
To address limitations of high annotation costs and fixed label sets.
To enable adaptive analysis of daily activities, including novel patterns.

Main Methods:

Developed a dynamic active learning approach for activity recognition.
Samples are selected based on uncertainty, diversity, and representativeness.
The method dynamically identifies new activities beyond predefined labels.

Main Results:

Significantly boosted activity recognition performance.
Considerably reduced annotation costs.
Enabled adaptive analysis and detection of novel activities.

Conclusions:

The proposed dynamic active learning method effectively enhances activity recognition.
It offers a cost-effective solution by minimizing annotation requirements.
The approach supports adaptive analysis and the discovery of previously unknown activity patterns.