Clustering-based ensemble learning for activity recognition in smart homes

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 14, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 12285-12304

  Jurek, Anna ^a   Nugent, Chris ^a   Bi, Yaxin ^a   Wu, Shengli ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Classifier ensembles; Clustering; Smart homes

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS; SENSORS;

ACTIVITY MONITORING SYSTEM; ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION PROCESS; CLASSIFIER ENSEMBLES; CLUSTERING; ENSEMBLE LEARNING; SMART ENVIRONMENT; SMART HOMES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84904164792     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s140712285     Document Type: Article

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