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  • Computer Science
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Signal Processing

Background:

  • Human locomotion identification using smartphone sensors is a growing research area with applications in healthcare, sports, and security.
  • Existing research predominantly focuses on physical locomotion, with less emphasis on human localization patterns.
  • Accurate recognition of both physical and location-based human activities is crucial for advanced applications.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop and evaluate a system for recognizing both physical and location-based human activities using smartphone sensors.
  • To accurately identify activities such as walking, running, jumping, and indoor/outdoor localization.
  • To outperform existing state-of-the-art methods in human activity and localization recognition.

Main Methods:

  • Preprocessing raw sensor data using Butterworth and Median filters, followed by Hamming windowing for segmentation.
  • Feature extraction from inertial and GPS sensors, with feature selection via variance thresholding.
  • Addressing data imbalance with permutation-based data augmentation and Yeo-Johnson transformation, followed by multi-layer perceptron classification and K-fold cross-validation.

Main Results:

  • The system achieved high accuracy: 96% (Extrasensory) and 94% (SHL) for physical activities.
  • The system achieved high accuracy: 94% (Extrasensory) and 91% (SHL) for location-based activities.
  • The proposed system outperformed previous state-of-the-art methods in recognizing both physical and location-based activities.

Conclusions:

  • The developed system effectively recognizes a wide range of human physical and location-based activities using smartphone sensors.
  • The integration of advanced signal processing, feature selection, and machine learning techniques significantly improves recognition accuracy.
  • This research provides a robust foundation for enhanced human activity recognition systems in various real-world applications.