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…
SparseSense improves HAR from sparse sensor data, outperforming state-of-the-art models.
problem Learning activity recognition from highly sparse sensor data streams.
method Set-based neural networks for end-to-end learning from sparse data.
result Significant performance improvements in HAR from passive sensor datasets.
Paper presents a stress prediction model for students using wearable data.
problem Predicting students' stress levels from wearable data is challenging.
method Used Auto-encoders and Multitask learning to predict stress from sensor data and covariates.
result Model improved stress prediction by 45.6% on StudentLife dataset.
In this work we investigate intra-day patterns of activity on a population of 7,261 users of mobile health wearable devices and apps. We show that: (1) using intra-day step and sleep data recorded from passive trackers significantly improves classification performance on self-reported chronic conditions related to ment…
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…
Paper introduces a new multi-kernel algorithm for better gradient approximation.
problem Improving gradient approximation in high-dimensional problems.
method Develops a multi-kernel passive stochastic gradient algorithm with variance reduction.
result The multi-kernel algorithm performs better in high-dimensional problems.
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…
New RL method learns from passive data by modeling intentions.
problem Learning from passive data like videos without rewards or actions.
method Model intentions using temporal difference learning, learning representations from raw data.
result Successfully learns features from passive data that accelerate downstream RL tasks.
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.
Active learning can't improve over passive in certain settings.
problem Active learning vs. passive learning in nonparametric settings.
method Analyzing margin conditions and their effects on active learning performance.
result Nuances in margin conditions determine whether active learning can outperform passive learning.
This paper aims to incorporate passive symmetries in machine learning for better generalization.
problem Machine learning's reliance on arbitrary choices leads to passive symmetries that can limit generalization.
method Translation among physics, mathematics, and machine learning to understand and implement passive symmetries.
result Respecting passive symmetries can improve machine learning's ability to generalize.
This paper investigates the market impact of passive orders.
problem Understanding the market impact of passive orders executed through limit orders.
method Developed a microstructure model linking liquidity dynamics and price moves, replacing the constant information content assumption with a function dependent on available volume.
result Derived useful approximations for market impact curves, leading to closed-form formulas.
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.
Optimizes memory and computation in wearable systems.
problem Minimizing resource usage in real-time classification for wearable systems.
method Hierarchical SVM classifier structure and memory optimization techniques.
result Up to 56% reduction in memory storage for activity recognition.
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.
Study predicts diabetes biomarkers using wearable data.
problem Understanding and predicting diabetes progression.
method Wide and deep neural network with LSTM structure.
result Model predicts biomarkers with low error rates.
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…
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.
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.
We study the role of active and passive investors in an investment market with uncertainties. Active investors concentrate on a single or a few stocks with a given probability of determining the quality of them. Passive investors spread their investment uniformly, resembling buying the market index. In this toy market …
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.
New RL method optimizes power and accuracy for activity recognition.
problem Balancing power consumption and accuracy in wearable devices for activity recognition.
method Reinforcement Learning with multiple feedback sources for feature selection.
result Achieved good trade-off between power consumption and accuracy.
Passive investing can incur hidden costs due to market timing inefficiencies.
problem Hidden costs in passive investing due to market timing inefficiencies.
method Analysis of passive investing strategies, including gradual share acquisition and post-announcement trading.
result Post-announcement trading can earn significant profits, often exceeding 1%.
We study the theoretical advantages of active learning over passive learning. Specifically, we prove that, in noise-free classifier learning for VC classes, any passive learning algorithm can be transformed into an active learning algorithm with asymptotically strictly superior label complexity for all nontrivial targe…
Model predicts active and passive cosponsorship motivations in Congress.
problem Identifying motivations behind cosponsorship in U.S. Congress.
method Encoder+RGCN model learning from bill texts and speeches.
result F1-score of 0.88 for predicting active and passive cosponsorship.
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.
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.
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 smart suit tracks infant movements with high accuracy.
problem Early detection of atypical motor development in infants.
method Developed a multi-sensor smart suit for data collection, trained a deep CNN algorithm for automatic posture and movement classification.
result Setup achieves human equivalent accuracy in infant posture and movement classification.
Study shows big winner stocks significantly impact passive and active investment strategies.
problem Impact of big winner stocks on passive and active investment strategies.
method Numerical and analytical techniques applied to historical stock price data.
result Concentrated portfolios underperform equally weighted indexes due to missing big winner stocks.
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…
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.
JIT liquidity providers can sometimes reduce overall market liquidity by crowding out passive LPs.
problem JIT liquidity providers can reduce overall market liquidity by crowding out passive LPs.
method Game-theoretic model with asymmetrically informed agents to analyze JIT liquidity provision in blockchain-based decentralized exchanges.
result JIT LPs only provide liquidity to uninformed orders and crowd out passive LPs when order volume is not sufficiently elastic to pool depth, potentially reducing overall market liquidity.
Finsler space is differentiable manifold for which Minkowski space is the fiber of the tangent bundle. To understand structure of the reference frame in Finsler space, we need to understand the structure of orthonormal basis in Minkowski space. In this paper, we considered the definition of orthonormal basis in Minkows…
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.
Mean representations of VAEs are correlated but still useful for tasks.
problem Correlation between mean and sampled representations of VAEs.
method Selective posterior collapse to identify active and passive variables.
result Passive variables in mean representations are correlated but uncorrelated in sampled ones.
In this paper we study a symmetry group of vector space. Basis manifold is a homogeneous space of a symmetry group. This concept leads us to the definition of active and passive transformations on basis manifold. Active transformation can be expressed as a transformation of vector space. Passive transformation gives ab…
Novel framework for efficient entity alignment labeling.
problem Efficient labeling of entity alignments in knowledge graphs.
method Active and passive learning strategies to select informative instances.
result Passive learning achieves comparable performance to active learning.
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.
The Heston model optimizes portfolio management based on real market data.
problem Choosing between active and passive investment strategies.
method Calibrated Heston model to real stock market data.
result Passive strategy can outperform active strategy depending on market parameters.
Tensor factorization uncovers hidden patterns in student behavior data.
problem Discovering low-dimensional structure in high-dimensional behavioral data.
method Non-negative tensor factorization applied to wearable sensor data.
result Tensor factorization reveals clusters of students with different behaviors.
We provide new results concerning label efficient, polynomial time, passive and active learning of linear separators. We prove that active learning provides an exponential improvement over PAC (passive) learning of homogeneous linear separators under nearly log-concave distributions. Building on this, we provide a comp…