Evaluation of accelerometer based multi-sensor versus single-sensor activity recognition systems

Medical Engineering and Physics

Volumn 36, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 779-785

  Gao, Lei ^a   Bourke, A K ^a   Nelson, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIMERICK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Accelerometer; Activities of daily living; Activity recognition; Multi sensor fusion

Indexed keywords

ACCELEROMETERS; ALGORITHMS; DECISION TREES; FACE RECOGNITION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; DECISION TREE CLASSIFIERS; FEATURE EXTRACTION ALGORITHMS; MULTI-SENSOR FUSION; PRE-PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS;

SENSORS;

ACCELEROMETER; AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CLASSIFIER; DECISION TREE; HUMAN; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSOR; SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACCELEROMETRY; AMBULATORY MONITORING; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; BODY POSTURE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEVICES; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EVALUATION STUDY; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; THIGH; THORAX; TIME; VERY ELDERLY; WALKING;

ACCELEROMETRY; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MONITORING, AMBULATORY; MOVEMENT; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POSTURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; THIGH; THORAX; TIME; WALKING;

EID: 84900795161     PISSN: 13504533     EISSN: 18734030     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.medengphy.2014.02.012     Document Type: Article

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