Activity recognition using temporal evidence theory

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 253-269

  McKeever, Susan ^a   Ye, Juan ^b   Coyle, Lorcan ^c   Bleakley, Chris ^a   Dobson, Simon ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c Lero   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

activity recognition; Context reasoning; Dempster Shafer theory; evidence theory; smart home dataset; temporal; time

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; CONTEXT REASONING; DATA SETS; DEMPSTER-SHAFER THEORY; EVIDENCE THEORIES; SMART HOMES;

CLASSIFIERS; DECISION TREES; FORMAL LOGIC; METADATA; SENSORS; WAVELET TRANSFORMS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 78651578036     PISSN: 18761364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/AIS-2010-0071     Document Type: Article

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