Human Activity Recognition via Hybrid Deep Learning Based Model

In recent years, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become one of the most important research topics in the domains of health and human-machine interaction. Many Artificial intelligence-based models are developed for activity recognition; however, these algorithms fail to extract spatial and temporal features due to which they show poor performance on real-world long-term HAR. Furthermore, in literature, a limited number of datasets are publicly available for physical activities recognition that contains less number of activities. Considering these limitations, we develop a hybrid model by incorporating Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) for activity recognition where CNN is used for spatial features extraction and LSTM network is utilized for learning temporal information. Additionally, a new challenging dataset is generated that is collected from 20 participants using the Kinect V2 sensor and contains 12 different classes of human physical activities. An extensive ablation study is performed over different traditional machine learning and deep learning models to obtain the optimum solution for HAR. The accuracy of 90.89% is achieved via the CNN-LSTM technique, which shows that the proposed model is suitable for HAR applications.

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In recent years, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has become an important research topic in the domains of health and human-machine interaction. Existing AI-based models for activity recognition show poor performance on long-term HAR due to their inability to extract spatial and temporal features. Additionally, there is a limited availability of publicly accessible datasets for physical activities recognition. To address these challenges, a hybrid model incorporating Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) is developed, achieving an accuracy of 90.89% on a new challenging dataset containing 12 different classes of human physical activities. This demonstrates the suitability of the proposed model for HAR applications.