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Area of Science:

  • Computer Science
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Ubiquitous Computing

Background:

  • Human Activity Recognition (HAR) typically assumes single-occupant environments.
  • Real-world homes often have multiple occupants or visitors, complicating HAR.
  • Existing HAR methods struggle to differentiate activities in multi-person settings.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a novel method for detecting and identifying visitors in a home environment.
  • To assess the efficacy of entropy measures (Approximate Entropy, Sample Entropy, Fuzzy Entropy) for visitor detection.
  • To enable personalized HAR and abnormality detection for the main occupier in multi-occupant scenarios.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized Approximate Entropy (ApEn), Sample Entropy (SampEn), and Fuzzy Entropy (FuzzyEn) for data analysis.
  • Applied the entropy-based method to occupancy sensor data from two distinct datasets.
  • Focused on distinguishing visitor presence from the main occupier's activities.

Main Results:

  • The proposed entropy-based method successfully detected and identified visitors in a home environment.
  • High accuracy was achieved in distinguishing visitor presence using occupancy sensor data.
  • The findings demonstrate the potential of entropy measures in multi-occupant HAR.

Conclusions:

  • Entropy measures offer a viable approach for visitor detection in smart home environments.
  • This research addresses a key limitation in current single-occupant HAR systems.
  • The method paves the way for more sophisticated and personalized home monitoring systems.