期刊
出版社
ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY
DOI: 10.1145/3448074
关键词
Human activity recognition; unsupervised learning; deep clustering; multi-task learning
资金
- National Key R&D Program of China [2017YFB1001801]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [61972196, 61832008, 61832005]
- Key R&D Program of Jiangsu Province, China [BE2018116]
- Collaborative Innovation Center of Novel Software Technology and Industrialization
- Sino-German Institutes of Social Computing
This study introduces an unsupervised human activity recognition method using a multi-task deep clustering framework to achieve activity classification, and initial experimental results show its excellent performance in reducing human annotation costs and narrowing the gap between unsupervised and supervised activity recognition.
Human activity recognition (HAR) based on sensing data from wearable and mobile devices has become an active research area in ubiquitous computing, and it envisions a wide range of application scenarios in mobile social networking, environmental context sensing, health and well-being monitoring, etc. However, activity recognition based on manually annotated sensing data is manpower-expensive, time-consuming, and privacy-sensitive, which prevents HAR systems from being really deployed in scale. In this paper, we address the problem of unsupervised human activity recognition, which infers activities from unlabeled datasets without the need of domain knowledge. We propose an end-to-end multi-task deep clustering framework to solve the problem. Taking the unlabeled multi-dimensional sensing signals as input, we firstly apply a CNN-BiLSTM autoencoder to form a compressed latent feature representation. Then we apply a K-means clustering algorithm based on the extracted features to partition the dataset into different groups, which produces pseudo labels for the instances. We further train a deep neural network (DNN) with the latent features and pseudo labels for activity recognition. The tasks of feature representation, clustering, and classification are integrated into a uniform multi-task learning framework and optimized jointly to achieve unsupervised activity classification. We conduct extensive experiments based on three public datasets. It is shown that the proposed approach outperforms shallow unsupervised learning approaches, and it performs close to the state-of-the-art supervised approaches by fine-tuning with a small number of labeled data. The proposed approach significantly reduces the cost of human-based data annotation and narrows down the gap between unsupervised and supervised human activity recognition.
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