Human Activity Recognition with Smartwatch Data by using Mahalanobis Distance-Based Outlier Detection and Ensemble Learning Methods

Authors : Ensar Arif SAĞBAŞ, Serkan BALLI

Pages : 95-106

Doi:10.21541/apjess.1105362

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Publication Date : 2023-09-30

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Recognition of human activities is part of smart healthcare applications. In this context, the detection of human actions with high accuracy has been a field that has been working for many years. With the increase in the usage of smart devices, smartphones and smartwatches have become the constant equipment of these studies thanks to their internal sensors. Sometimes abnormal data are included in data sets due to the way the data were collected and for reasons arising from the sensors. For this reason, it becomes important to detect outlier data. In this study, step counter and heart rate sensors were used in addition to an accelerometer and gyroscope in order to detect human activities. Afterward, the outliers were detected and cleared with a Mahalanobis distance-based approach. With the aim of achieving a better classification performance, machine learning methods were used by strengthening them with ensemble learning methods. The obtained results showed that step counter, heart rate sensors, and ensemble learning methods positively affect the success of the classification. In addition, it was found that the Mahalanobis distance-based outlier detection method increased the classification accuracy significantly.
Keywords : activity recognition, smartwatch, mahalanobis distance, ensemble learning, sensor data