Deep neural network improves hand gesture classification from wearable IMUs.
problem Classifying hand gestures from wearable IMUs using conventional methods.
method Deep Neural Network (DNN) with optimization objective for signal fitting.
result 3-5% improvement in classification accuracy compared to SVM and kNN.
Novel CNN array for sign language recognition using wearable IMUs.
problem Efficiently recognizing sign language from wearable IMU signals.
method Two-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network array architecture for Indian sign language recognition.
result Peak classification accuracies of 94.20% for general sentences and 95.00% for interrogative sentences achieved.
Deep CapsNet improves sign language recognition from wearable IMUs.
problem Continuous recognition of sign language from wearable devices.
method Custom CapsNet architecture using deep capsule networks and game theory.
result Improved accuracy of 94% and 92.50% for 3 and 5 routings respectively, compared to 87.99% for CNN.
Wearables like smartwatches which are embedded with sensors and powerful processors, provide a strong platform for development of analytics solutions in sports domain. To analyze players' games, while motion sensor based shot detection has been extensively studied in sports like Tennis, Golf, Baseball; Table Tennis and…
Automates feature extraction for IMU-based activity recognition.
problem Manual feature engineering is time-consuming and limits IMU-based applications.
method FRESH algorithm for automated feature extraction.
result Workflow automates feature extraction from synchronized IMU sensors.
Deep learning identifies functional primitives in stroke rehabilitation.
problem Measuring the necessary dose of rehabilitation training for stroke recovery.
method Automatic identification of functional primitives using IMUs and deep learning.
result Convolutional neural network achieved 70% accuracy in primitive classification.
In this paper we propose a novel accurate method for dead-reckoning of wheeled vehicles based only on an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU). In the context of intelligent vehicles, robust and accurate dead-reckoning based on the IMU may prove useful to correlate feeds from imaging sensors, to safely navigate through obstr…
This paper proposes IMU preintegrated features for efficient deep inertial odometry.
problem Efficient odometry from IMU data is challenging due to sensor imperfections and noise.
method Proposes IMU preintegrated features exploiting IMU motion model's manifold structure.
result Improves odometry performance and reduces computational burdens.
Paper proposes a deep learning method for better IMU gyroscope data.
problem Improving accuracy of IMU gyroscope data for robot orientation estimation.
method Dilated convolution neural network, proper loss function, key points identification.
result Algorithm outperforms state-of-the-art on unseen test sequences.
Rehabilitation training is the primary intervention to improve motor recovery after stroke, but a tool to measure functional training does not currently exist. To bridge this gap, we previously developed an approach to classify functional movement primitives using wearable sensors and a machine learning (ML) algorithm.…
A deep learning model improves pedestrian tracking accuracy.
problem Pedestrian tracking accuracy is low, especially with inertial measurement unit.
method Deep learning model using IMU and LIDAR data, attention mechanism.
result Preliminary results show improved accuracy.
New system uses wearable bio-signals for easy authentication.
problem Security of private information on wearables is a concern.
method Context-dependent soft-biometric authentication using heart rate, gait, and breathing audio.
result Binary SVM with RBF kernel achieves high accuracy and low EER.
Develops a method to denoise and analyze wearable ECGs.
problem Noisy ECGs from wearable devices.
method Statistical model, beat-to-beat representation, factor analysis.
result Upper bound on performance quantified and compared.
The field of mobile health aims to leverage recent advances in wearable on-body sensing technology and smart phone computing capabilities to develop systems that can monitor health states and deliver just-in-time adaptive interventions. However, existing work has largely focused on analyzing collected data in the off-l…
Course on knots using branched coverings.
problem Determining knots using cyclic branched coverings.
method Cyclic branched coverings of knots.
result New insights into knot classification.
The rich set of sensors in smartphones and wearable devices provides the possibility to passively collect streams of data in the wild. The raw data streams, however, can rarely be directly used in the modeling pipeline. We provide a generic framework that can process raw data streams and extract useful features related…
DeepBeat uses deep learning to assess signal quality and detect arrhythmia in wearable devices.
problem Detecting atrial fibrillation from wearable devices with noise.
method Multi-task deep learning approach using convolutional denoising autoencoders.
result Significantly improved AF detection accuracy compared to traditional methods.
Wearable devices have the potential to enhance sports performance, yet they are not fulfilling this promise. Our previous studies with 6 professional tennis coaches and 20 players indicate that this could be due the lack of psychological or mental state feedback, which the coaches claim to provide. Towards this end, we…
Method learns behavioral states from wearable sensor data.
problem Understanding behavioral patterns from sensor data.
method Non-parametric Bayesian approach to model sensor data.
result Learned behavioral states cluster participants into meaningful groups and predict psychological states.
Improved cardiac arrhythmia detection in wearable devices with neural networks.
problem Resource constraints in low-power wearable devices for accurate arrhythmia detection.
method Adapted a convolutional-recurrent neural network to a low-power microcontroller, optimizing for precision and memory usage.
result Reduced F1 score from 0.8 to 0.784 in fixed-point precision, with a 195.6KB memory footprint and 33.98MOps/s throughput. Wrist movements can reveal digits, posing security risks.
problem Security vulnerabilities in wrist wearable devices.
method Machine learning model trained on wrist movement data.
result 100% accuracy in predicting digits via wrist movement.
New approach improves human activity recognition with wearables.
problem Improving human activity recognition with wearables.
method Exploiting latent relationships between multi-channel sensor modalities, data-agnostic augmentation, and a classification loss criterion.
result Achieves new state-of-the-art performance on four diverse activity recognition benchmarks.
Adversarial perturbations fool wearable sensor systems, showing transferability across different systems.
problem Adversarial examples fool wearable sensor systems, showing transferability across different systems.
method Study of adversarial transferability in wearable sensor systems from four perspectives: systems, subjects, sensor body locations, and datasets.
result Strong untargeted transferability in most cases, targeted attacks less successful.
Foot-mounted inertial positioning (FMIP) can face problems of inertial drifts and unknown initial states in real applications, which renders the estimated trajectories inaccurate and not obtained in a well defined coordinate system for matching trajectories of different users. In this paper, an approach adopting receiv…
Paper tackles variable-length, incomplete wearable sensor data to improve personalized insights.
problem Variable-length and incomplete time series data from wearable sensors.
method HeartSpace integrates a time series encoding module and pattern aggregation network, along with a Siamese-triplet network for representation learning.
result Empirical evaluation shows significant performance gains in personality prediction, demographics inference, and user identification.
The problem of automatic identification of physical activities performed by human subjects is referred to as Human Activity Recognition (HAR). There exist several techniques to measure motion characteristics during these physical activities, such as Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). IMUs have a cornerstone position in…
MoCA uses a novel autoencoder to analyze multi-modal health data.
problem Challenges in analyzing continuous multi-modal health data from wearable devices.
method Proposes MoCA, a self-supervised learning framework combining transformer and masked autoencoder methods.
result Demonstrates strong performance boosts across reconstruction and classification tasks.
Our research focuses on analysing human activities according to a known behaviorist scenario, in case of noisy and high dimensional collected data. The data come from the monitoring of patients with dementia diseases by wearable cameras. We define a structural model of video recordings based on a Hidden Markov Model. N…
Enhances activity recognition in wearable computing with context awareness and uncertainty quantification.
problem Context-dependent activity recognition and unknown contexts in wearable computing.
method Developed the α-{eta} network coupled with uncertainty quantification (UQ) based on maximum entropy.
result Improved accuracy and F-score by 10% through high-level context identification.
Wearable computing is one of the fastest growing technologies today. Smart watches are poised to take over at least of half the wearable devices market in the near future. Smart watch screen size, however, is a limiting factor for growth, as it restricts practical text input. On the other hand, wearable devices have so…
Recent advances in both machine learning and Internet-of-Things have attracted attention to automatic Activity Recognition, where users wear a device with sensors and their outputs are mapped to a predefined set of activities. However, few studies have considered the balance between wearable power consumption and activ…
Smartphones can estimate heart rate from other sensor data.
problem Gaps in heart rate data from wearable sensors.
method Regression, SVM, and random forest algorithms to estimate heart rate from smartphone data.
result Smartphone data can improve heart rate estimation from wearable sensors.
With the increasing availability of wearable devices, continuous monitoring of individuals' physiological and behavioral patterns has become significantly more accessible. Access to these continuous patterns about individuals' statuses offers an unprecedented opportunity for studying complex diseases and health conditi…
Self-attention model improves HAR from wearable sensors.
problem Capturing spatio-temporal context from sensor data.
method Proposes a self-attention based neural network model.
result Significant performance improvement over state-of-the-art models.
Efficiently fine-tunes patient-independent seizure detection models with tensor kernel machine.
problem Improving seizure detection accuracy for wearable devices.
method Transfer learning with tensor kernel machine using canonical polyadic decomposition.
result Patient fine-tuned model achieves high performance with smaller model size.
We train and validate a semi-supervised, multi-task LSTM on 57,675 person-weeks of data from off-the-shelf wearable heart rate sensors, showing high accuracy at detecting multiple medical conditions, including diabetes (0.8451), high cholesterol (0.7441), high blood pressure (0.8086), and sleep apnea (0.8298). We compa…
Hidden Markov Models detect hand gestures from wearable sEMG signals.
problem Detecting activity regions in continuous sEMG signals.
method Hidden Markov Models applied to sEMG signals for gesture recognition.
result Average accuracy of 96.25% for activity onsets and 87.5% for activity terminations.
A wearable EEG headband detects primary colors from brain activity for color perception.
problem Detecting primary colors from brain activity for color perception.
method Spectral power features, statistical features, and correlation features from continuous Morlet wavelet transform; dimensionality reduction techniques like Forward Feature Selection and Stacked Autoencoders; Random Forest Classifier.
result Best overall accuracy of 80.6% for intra-subject classification.
Deep CNN-RNN model classifies breathing sounds for respiratory disease diagnosis.
problem Automated diagnosis of respiratory diseases using wearable devices.
method Patient-specific model tuning and local log quantization of weights.
result 71.81% accuracy on leave-one-out validation with patient-specific data.
Bayesian active learning improves stress and affect detection on wearable devices.
problem Handling unlabeled data in real-time for stress and affect detection.
method Bayesian Neural Networks with Monte-Carlo Dropout and suitable acquisition functions.
result Framework achieves significant efficiency boost and low number of acquired pool points.
Deep learning classifies animal behavior from wearable accelerometers.
problem Classifying animal behavior from accelerometer data.
method End-to-end deep neural network with IIR and FIR filters.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms in real-time classification.
Paper develops methods for evaluating mHealth interventions using historical data.
problem Evaluating the long-term effectiveness of mHealth interventions designed for near-term outcomes.
method Develops off-policy estimation techniques to infer long-term average outcomes from historical data.
result Provides estimators and confidence intervals for evaluating mHealth policies.
Classification methods based on sparse estimation have drawn much attention recently, due to their effectiveness in processing high-dimensional data such as images. In this paper, a method to improve the performance of a sparse representation classification (SRC) approach is proposed; it is then applied to the problem …
ESPRESSO segments time-series data for better human activity recognition.
problem Segmenting high-dimensional time-series data for applications like HAR.
method ESPRESSO combines entropy and shape analysis for multi-dimensional time-series segmentation.
result ESPRESSO outperforms four state-of-the-art methods across seven datasets.
PhysioMTL learns personalized HRV rhythms from wearable data, improving prediction and counterfactual analysis.
problem Challenges in interpreting HRV measurements due to variability and stressors.
method PhysioMTL combines Optimal Transport and MTL to learn personalized diurnal rhythms from heterogeneous data.
result PhysioMTL outperforms other methods in predicting unseen subjects and generating counterfactual effects.
We propose two optimization techniques to minimize memory usage and computation while meeting system timing constraints for real-time classification in wearable systems. Our method derives a hierarchical classifier structure for Support Vector Machine (SVM) in order to reduce the amount of computations, based on the pr…
Unintentional falls can cause severe injuries and even death, especially if no immediate assistance is given. The aim of Fall Detection Systems (FDSs) is to detect an occurring fall. This information can be used to trigger the necessary assistance in case of injury. This can be done by using either ambient-based sensor…
R2T hybrid model improves robust regression for asymmetric noise.
problem Least-squares regression fails with asymmetric structured noise.
method Transformer encoder, compression NN, fixed symbolic equation.
result Median regression MSE of 6e-6 to 3.5e-5 on synthetic data.