A TWO-LAYER CLASSIFICATION MODEL ON HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION BASED ON CLUSTERING ALGORITHM AND FEATURE SELECTION

Abstract

Human activity recognition (HAR) has a wide application in daily life. With wearable sensors, people’s activity can be monitored, recorded and analysed. However, most existing methods did not make full use of human activity data and their features. In this paper, a new method based on feature selection and clustering algorithm is proposed. We established two-layer classification models, respectively, in the ankle, the chest, the wrist and the mixed accelerometer data. K-means clustering algorithm was first used to obtain a broad classification of the activities and then we conducted two rounds of classification, among which feature selection was performed in each layer. A significance analysis was also carried out in the final experiment and we compared the performance of the final model from the mixed accelerometer data with other algorithms, the results showed that the recognition performance of our model was significantly better, and the average [Formula: see text]1 score was as high as 0.969 in publicly available PAMAP2 dataset. Compared with other methods, our model achieved the highest recognition rate. The method proposed in this paper can greatly improve the recognition rate of human activity and effectively evaluate daily activity.