Learn How to Design and Implement HAR Systems The pervasiveness and range of capabilities of today's mobile devices have enabled a wide spectrum of mobile applications that are transforming our daily lives, from smartphones equipped with GPS to integrated mobile sensors that acquire physiological data. Human Activity Recognition: Using Wearable Sen

Learn How to Design and Implement HAR Systems The pervasiveness and range of capabilities of today’s mobile devices have enabled a wide spectrum of mobile applications that are transforming our daily lives, from smartphones equipped with GPS to integrated mobile sensors that acquire physiological data. Human Activity Recognition: Using Wearable Sensors and Smartphones focuses on the automatic identification of human activities from pervasive wearable sensors—a crucial component for health monitoring and also applicable to other areas, such as entertainment and tactical operations. Developed from the authors’ nearly four years of rigorous research in the field, the book covers the theory, fundamentals, and applications of human activity recognition (HAR). The authors examine how machine learning and pattern recognition tools help determine a user’s activity during a certain period of time. They propose two systems for performing HAR: Centinela, an offline server-oriented HAR system, and Vigilante, a completely mobile real-time activity recognition system. The book also provides a practical guide to the development of activity recognition applications in the Android framework.

Technological advancements in healthcare can contribute unquestionably in reducing healthcare strains by ensuring clinicians, doctors and other medical staff operate and conduct their daily activities more efficiently in the hospital vicinity. Since the turn of the 21st century, Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has undergone significant research in the healthcare domain. HAR utilised with powerful technologies can benefit remote patient monitoring, the elderly, patients suffering from chronic illness and ambient assisted living. Human activity recognition has shown to be effective in benefiting clinicians in the treatment and remote monitoring of patients. This field is not only vital for diagnosis and treatment, but also an assessment of how likely a medical patient will fall ill or die from certain diseases or health problems. To show the great importance of activity recognition in the health sector, analytically driving an improvement in accuracy in classifying patients' activities improves the relationship of patients and clinicians as well as reducing the possibility of a fatality. With Artificial Intelligence at the forefront of its revolutionary capabilities, a bright future is in store if we can implement it beneficially into our healthcare service. This book reveals how.

This book constitutes refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition, DL-HAR 2020, held in conjunction with IJCAI-PRICAI 2020, in Kyoto, Japan, in January 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the workshop was postponed to the year 2021 and held in a virtual format. The 10 presented papers were thorougly reviewed and included in the volume. They present recent research on applications of human activity recognition for various areas such as healthcare services, smart home applications, and more.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and Applications (FICTA 2020), held at NIT Surathkal, Karnataka, India, on 4–5 January 2020. In these proceedings, researchers, scientists, engineers and practitioners share new ideas and lessons learned in the field of intelligent computing theories with prospective applications in various engineering disciplines. The respective papers cover broad areas of the information and decision sciences, and explore both the theoretical and practical aspects of data-intensive computing, data mining, evolutionary computation, knowledge management and networks, sensor networks, signal processing, wireless networks, protocols and architectures. Given its scope, the book offers a valuable resource for graduate students in various engineering disciplines.

This book provides a unified approach for developing a fuzzy classifier and explains the advantages and disadvantages of different classifiers through extensive performance evaluation of real data sets. It thus offers new learning paradigms for analyzing neural networks and fuzzy systems, while training fuzzy classifiers. Function approximation is also treated and function approximators are compared.

This book offer clear descriptions of the basic structure for the recognition and classification of human activities using different types of sensor module and smart devices in e.g. healthcare, education, monitoring the elderly, daily human behavior, and fitness monitoring. In addition, the complexities, challenges, and design issues involved in data collection, processing, and other fundamental stages along with datasets, methods, etc., are discussed in detail. The book offers a valuable resource for readers in the fields of pattern recognition, human–computer interaction, and the Internet of Things.