Instance-Wise Dynamic Sensor Selection for Human Activity Recognition

Authors

  • Xiaodong Yang Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Yiqiang Chen Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Hanchao Yu Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Yingwei Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Wang Lu Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Ruizhe Sun Chinese Academy of Sciences

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i01.5461

Abstract

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) is an important application of smart wearable/mobile systems for many human-centric problems such as healthcare. The multi-sensor synchronous measurement has shown better performance for HAR than a single sensor. However, the multi-sensor setting increases the costs of data transmission, computation and energy. Therefore, the efficient sensor selection to balance recognition accuracy and sensor cost is the critical challenge. In this paper, we propose an Instance-wise Dynamic Sensor Selection (IDSS) method for HAR. Firstly, we formalize this problem as minimizing both activity classification loss and sensor number by dynamically selecting a sparse subset for each instance. Then, IDSS solves the above minimization problem via Markov Decision Process whose policy for sensor selection is learned by exploiting the instance-wise states using Imitation Learning. In order to optimize the parameters of the activity classification model and the sensor selection policy, an algorithm named Mutual DAgger is proposed to alternatively enhance their learning process. To evaluate the performance of IDSS, we conduct experiments on three real-world HAR datasets. The experimental results show that IDSS can effectively reduce the overall sensor number without losing accuracy and outperforms the state-of-the-art methods regarding the combined measurement of accuracy and sensor number.

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Published

2020-04-03

How to Cite

Yang, X., Chen, Y., Yu, H., Zhang, Y., Lu, W., & Sun, R. (2020). Instance-Wise Dynamic Sensor Selection for Human Activity Recognition. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 34(01), 1104-1111. https://doi.org/10.1609/aaai.v34i01.5461

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AAAI Technical Track: Applications