Energy efficient activity recognition based on low resolution accelerometer in smart phones

Yunji Liang, Xingshe Zhou, Zhiwen Yu, Bin Guo, Yue Yang

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Abstract

Smart phone is becoming an ideal platform for continuous and transparent sensing with lots of built-in sensors. Activity recognition on smart phones is still a challenge due to the constraints of resources, such as battery lifetime, computational workload. Keeping in view the demand of low energy activity recognition for mobile devices, we propose an energy-efficient method to recognize user activities based on a single low resolution tri-axial accelerometer in smart phones. This paper presents a hierarchical recognition scheme with variable step size, which reduces the cost of time consuming frequency domain features for low energy consumption and adjusts the size of sliding window to improve the recognition accuracy. Experimental results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm with more than 85% recognition accuracy for 11 activities and 3.2 hours extended battery life for mobile phones.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Grid and Pervasive Computing - 7th International Conference, GPC 2012, Proceedings
Pages122-136
Number of pages15
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event7th International Conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2012 - Hong Kong, China
Duration: 11 May 201213 May 2012

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume7296 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference7th International Conference on Advances in Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2012
Country/TerritoryChina
CityHong Kong
Period11/05/1213/05/12

Keywords

  • activity recognition
  • energy efficient
  • hierarchical recognition
  • low resolution
  • tri-axial accelerometer

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