Activity recognition from on-body sensors by classifier fusion: Sensor scalability and robustness

Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing, ISSNIP

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 281-286

  Zappi, Piero ^b   Stiefmeier, Thomas ^a   Farella, Elisabetta ^b   Roggen, Daniel ^a   Benini, Luca ^b   Tröster, Gerhard ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Department of Electronic Informatic and System ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLASSIFIERS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DIESEL ENGINES; FUSION REACTIONS; INTELLIGENT CONTROL; JITTER; LEARNING SYSTEMS; QUALITY ASSURANCE; SCALABILITY; SENSOR DATA FUSION; SENSORS; SMART SENSORS; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; ON-BODY;

SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 51449106906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2007.4496857     Document Type: Conference Paper

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