Entropy Decision Fusion for Smartphone Sensor based Human Activity Recognition

Abstract: Human activity recognition serves an important part in building continuous behavioral monitoring systems, which are deployable for visual surveillance, patient rehabilitation, gaming, and even personally inclined smart homes. This paper demonstrates our efforts to develop a collaborative decision fusion mechanism for integrating the predicted scores from multiple learning algorithms trained on smartphone sensor based human activity data. We present an approach for fusing convolutional neural network, recurrent convolutional network, and support vector machine by computing and fusing the relative weighted scores from each classifier based on Tsallis entropy to improve human activity recognition performance. To assess the suitability of this approach, experiments are conducted on two benchmark datasets, UCI-HAR and WISDM. The recognition results attained using the proposed approach are comparable to existing methods.