A comparative study on recognizing human activities by applying diverse Machine Learning approaches

This paper deals with the problem of identifying and recognizing everyday human activities. The main goal is to compare a variety of implemented classification models founded on diverse machine learning approaches; one that utilizes features extracted from the time and frequency domain and three others that take advantage of the attributes of the symbolic space in order to extract conclusions regarding the performance and the potential usefulness of each of them. To guarantee the impartiality of the comparison, we used the signals contained in a free accessible dataset, which are subjected to the same preprocessing, and divided into equal time-length windows. The Nearest Neighour classifier is applied to compare the four approaches.