Mixture modeling of gait patterns from sensor data

  • Authors:
  • Jaakko Hollmén

  • Affiliations:
  • Aalto University School of Science, Aalto, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Sensor data can be used for monitoring, modeling, and recognition of human activities during daily life or in special situations. In assistive environments, modeling of characteristic walking styles have been studied as well as preventing the falls of the elderly. In this paper, we pre-process and analyze a time series collection of sensor recordings which is publicly available. More specifically, we transform the raw pressure sensor data in the insoles of the shoes to yield binary pressure patterns to indicate contact between the shoe and the ground. We model the marginal probability distributions of the resulting 0-1 data with mixture models of multivariate Bernoulli distributions. We interpret the identified mixture model in terms of gait phases.