Publication Type
Conference Proceeding Article
Version
publishedVersion
Publication Date
6-2016
Abstract
We propose CACE (Constraints And Correlations mining Engine) which investigates the challenges of improving the recognition of complex daily activities in multi-inhabitant smart homes, by better exploiting the spatiotemporal relationships across the activities of different individuals. We first propose and develop a loosely-coupled Hierarchical Dynamic Bayesian Network (HDBN), which both (a) captures the hierarchical inference of complex (macro-activity) contexts from lower-layer microactivity context (postural and improved oral gestural context), and (b) embeds the various types of behavioral correlations and constraints (at both micro-and macro-activity contexts) across the individuals. While this model is rich in terms of accuracy, it is computationally prohibitive, due to the explosive increase in the number of jointly-defined states. To tackle this challenge, we employ data mining to learn behaviorally-driven context correlations in the form of association rules, we then use such rules to prune the state space dramatically. To evaluate our framework, we build a customized smart home system and collected naturalistic multi-inhabitant smart home activities data. The system performance is illustrated with results from real-time system deployment experiences in a smart home environment reveals a radical (max 16 fold) reduction in the computational overhead compared to traditional hybrid classification approaches, as well as an improved activity recognition accuracy of max 95%.
Keywords
multi-modal sensing, multiple inhabitants, scalable activity recognizer, smart communities
Discipline
Computer Sciences | Software Engineering
Research Areas
Software and Cyber-Physical Systems
Publication
2016 IEEE 36th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS): Nara, Japan, June 27-30: Proceedings
First Page
539
Last Page
548
ISBN
9781509014828
Identifier
10.1109/ICDCS.2016.61
Publisher
IEEE
City or Country
Piscataway, NJ
Citation
Alam, Mohammad Arif Ul; ROY, Nirmalya; MISRA, Archan; and TAYLOR, Joseph.
CACE: Exploiting behavioral interactions for improved activity recognition in multi-inhabitant smart homes. (2016). 2016 IEEE 36th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS): Nara, Japan, June 27-30: Proceedings. 539-548.
Available at: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/3581
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Additional URL
http://doi.org/10.1109/ICDCS.2016.61