Sensor positioning for activity recognition using wearable accelerometers

IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 320-329

  Atallah, Louis ^a   Lo, Benny ^a   King, Rachel ^a   Yang, Guang Zhong ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Body sensor networks (BSNs); feature selection; sensor positioning; wearable sensors

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; BEHAVIORAL PROFILES; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENERAL POPULATION; RESEARCH CHALLENGES; SENSOR LOCATION; SENSOR POSITIONING; SYSTEMATIC FRAMEWORK; TIME FREQUENCY FEATURES; WEARABLE DEVICES; WEARABLE SENSORS;

ACCELEROMETERS; BODY SENSOR NETWORKS; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SENSOR NETWORKS;

SENSORS;

EID: 79960984111     PISSN: 19324545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TBCAS.2011.2160540     Document Type: Conference Paper

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