Abstract
Background
The accuracy of movement determination software in current activity trackers is insufficient for scientific applications, which are also not open-source.
Objective
To address this issue, we developed an accurate, trainable, and open-source smartphone-based activity-tracking toolbox that consists of an Android app (HumanActivityRecorder) and 2 different deep learning algorithms that can be adapted to new behaviors.
Methods
We employed a semisupervised deep learning approach to identify the different classes of activity based on accelerometry and gyroscope data, using both our own data and open competition data.
Results
Our approach is robust against variation in sampling rate and sensor dimensional input and achieved an accuracy of around 87% in classifying 6 different behaviors on both our own recorded data and the MotionSense data. However, if the dimension-adaptive neural architecture model is tested on our own data, the accuracy drops to 26%, which demonstrates the superiority of our algorithm, which performs at 63% on the MotionSense data used to train the dimension-adaptive neural architecture model.
Conclusions
HumanActivityRecorder is a versatile, retrainable, open-source, and accurate toolbox that is continually tested on new data. This enables researchers to adapt to the behavior being measured and achieve repeatability in scientific studies.
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