A survey on ontologies for human behavior recognition

ACM Computing Surveys

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Rodríguez, Natalia Díaz ^a   Cuellar M P ^b   Lilius, Johan ^a   Calvo Flores, Miguel Delgado ^b  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Context awareness; Human behavior recognition

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; CLASSIFIEDS; CONTEXT- AWARENESS; DATA DRIVEN; HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; HUMAN BEHAVIOR RECOGNITION; HUMAN BEHAVIORS; KNOWLEDGE BASED; ONTOLOGY'S; USER ACTIVITY;

ONTOLOGY;

EID: 84901236733     PISSN: 03600300     EISSN: 15577341     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/2523819     Document Type: Review

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