Daily Routine Recognition through Activity Spotting

  • Authors:
  • Ulf Blanke;Bernt Schiele

  • Affiliations:
  • Computer Science Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany;Computer Science Department, TU Darmstadt, Germany

  • Venue:
  • LoCA '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Location and Context Awareness
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

This paper explores the possibility of using low-level activity spotting for daily routine recognition. Using occurrence statistics of low-level activities and simple classifiers based on their statistics allows to train a discriminative classifier for daily routine activities such as working and commuting. Using a recently published data set we find that the number of required low-level activities is surprisingly low, thus, enabling efficient algorithms for daily routine recognition through low-level activity spotting. More specifically we employ the JointBoosting-framework using low-level activity spotters as weak classiers. By using certain low-level activities as support, we achieve an overall recall rate of over 90% and precision rate of over 88%. Tuning down the weak classifiers using only 2.61% of the original data still yields recall and precision rates of 80% and 83%.