Journal
APPLIED SCIENCES-BASEL
Volume 11, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/app11062633
Keywords
activity recognition; machine learning; wearable sensors; spinal cord injury; telerehabilitation
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- Deanship of scientific research in King Saud University
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This study introduces a dynamic segmentation method for physical activity recognition during rehabilitation, which outperforms the traditional sliding window approach in terms of accuracy and model robustness.
Featured Application This article presents an application of dynamic segmentation for physical activity recognition using machine learning techniques. Data segmentation is an essential process in activity recognition when using machine learning techniques. Previous studies on physical activity recognition have mostly relied on the sliding window approach for segmentation. However, choosing a fixed window size for multiple activities with different durations may affect recognition accuracy, especially when the activities belong to the same category (i.e., dynamic or static). This paper presents and verifies a new method for dynamic segmentation of physical activities performed during the rehabilitation of individuals with spinal cord injuries. To adaptively segment the raw data, signal characteristics are analyzed to determine the suitable type of boundaries. Then, the algorithm identifies the time boundaries to represent the start- and endpoints of each activity. To verify the method and build a predictive model, an experiment was conducted in which data were collected using a single wrist-worn accelerometer sensor. The experimental results were compared with the sliding window approach, indicating that the proposed method outperformed the sliding window approach in terms of overall accuracy, which exceeded 5%, as well as model robustness. The results also demonstrated efficient physical activity segmentation using the proposed method, resulting in high classification performance for all activities considered.
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