Location-based activity recognition using relational Markov networks

  • Authors:
  • Lin Liao;Dieter Fox;Henry Kautz

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'05 Proceedings of the 19th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we define a general framework for activity recognition by building upon and extending Relational Markov Networks. Using the example of activity recognition from location data, we show that our model can represent a variety of features including temporal information such as time of day, spatial information extracted from geographic databases, and global constraints such as the number of homes or workplaces of a person. We develop an efficient inference and learning technique based on MCMC. Using GPS location data collected by multiple people we show that the technique can accurately label a person's activity locations. Furthermore, we show that it is possible to learn good models from less data by using priors extracted from other people's data.