Journal of Applied Sciences ›› 2019, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (3): 427-436.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.0255-8297.2019.03.013

• Signal and Information Processing • Previous Articles    

Feature Selection of Human Activity Recognition Based on Tri-axial Accelerometer

FAN Shurui1, JIA Yating1, LIU Jinghua1,2   

  1. 1. College of Electronic Information Engineering, Hebei University of Technology, Tianjin 300401, China;
    2. Institute of Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
  • Received:2018-09-14 Revised:2018-10-24 Online:2019-05-31 Published:2019-05-31

Abstract: In order to solve the problem of activity classification in human motion pattern recognition, the feature selection of human activity recognition is studied in detail. By taking signal statistics on the x-axis, y-axis and z-axis, 117 features such as standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis are obtained. The three algorithms of Fisher score, Relief-F and Chi square are combined with the hierarchical classification method to select the feature subset, and the action classification is conducted by using the support vector machine (SVM). Experiments showed that the feature set selected by the three feature selection algorithms helps to identify three static movements of standing, sitting and lying and three dynamic movements of walking, going upstairs and downstairs with high precision, which is conducive to the subsequent research on low complexity online identification method.

Key words: human activity recognition, tri-axial accelerometer, feature selection, support vector machine (SVM)

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