期刊名称：International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
印刷版ISSN：1550-1329
电子版ISSN：1550-1477
出版年度：2018
卷号：14
期号：8
页码：1
DOI：10.1177/1550147718793801
出版社：Hindawi Publishing Corporation
摘要：To better understand the activity state of human, we might need multiple sensors on different parts of the body. According to different types of activities, the number and slot of required sensors would also be different. Therefore, how to determine the number and slot of necessary sensors regarding to wearers’ experience and processing efficiency is a meaningful study in actual practice. In this work, we propose a novel sensor selection scheme that is based on the improvement of the feature reduction process of the recognition. This scheme applies a hierarchical feature reduction method based on mutual information with max relevance and low-dimensional embedding strategy. It divides the process of feature reduction into two stages: first, redundant sensors are removed with one-order sequential forward selection based on mutual information; second, feature selection strategy that maximizing class-relevance is integrated with low-dimensional mapping so that the set of features will be further compressed. To verify the feasibility and superiority of the scheme, we design a complete solution for real practice of human activity recognition. According to the results of the experiments, we are able to recognize human activities accurately and efficiently with as few sensors as possible.
