Tamara al Shloul¹, Usman Azmat², Suliman A. Alsuhibany³, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi⁴, Ahmad Jalal², Jeongmin Park^5,*

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.34, No.2, pp. 715-732, 2022, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2022.025421

Abstract The physical and the mental health of a human being largely depends upon his physical life-routine (PLR) and today’s much advanced technological methods make it possible to recognize and keep track of an individual’s PLR. With the successful and accurate recognition of PLR, a sublime service of health education can be made copious. In this regard, smartphones can play a vital role as they are ubiquitous and have utilitarian sensors embedded in them. In this paper, we propose a framework that extracts the features from the smartphone sensors data and then uses the sequential feature selection to select the most… More >

Mouazma Batool¹, Yazeed Yasin Ghadi², Suliman A. Alsuhibany³, Tamara al Shloul⁴, Ahmad Jalal¹, Jeongmin Park^5,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 1747-1764, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025112

Abstract Nowadays, activities of daily living (ADL) recognition system has been considered an important field of computer vision. Wearable and optical sensors are widely used to assess the daily living activities in healthy people and people with certain disorders. Although conventional ADL utilizes RGB optical sensors but an RGB-D camera with features of identifying depth (distance information) and visual cues has greatly enhanced the performance of activity recognition. In this paper, an RGB-D-based ADL recognition system has been presented. Initially, human silhouette has been extracted from the noisy background of RGB and depth images to track human movement in a scene.… More >

Muhammad Hameed Siddiqi^1,*, Helal Alshammari¹, Amjad Ali², Madallah Alruwaili¹, Yousef Alhwaiti¹, Saad Alanazi¹, M. M. Kamruzzaman¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 611-634, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024760

Abstract Human activity recognition (HAR) can play a vital role in the monitoring of human activities, particularly for healthcare conscious individuals. The accuracy of HAR systems is completely reliant on the extraction of prominent features. Existing methods find it very challenging to extract optimal features due to the dynamic nature of activities, thereby reducing recognition performance. In this paper, we propose a robust feature extraction method for HAR systems based on template matching. Essentially, in this method, we want to associate a template of an activity frame or sub-frame comprising the corresponding silhouette. In this regard, the template is placed on… More >

Disha Deotale¹, Madhushi Verma², P. Suresh³, Sunil Kumar Jangir⁴, Manjit Kaur², Sahar Ahmed Idris⁵, Hammam Alshazly^6,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3919-3938, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020655

Abstract Nowadays, the most challenging and important problem of computer vision is to detect human activities and recognize the same with temporal information from video data. The video datasets are generated using cameras available in various devices that can be in a static or dynamic position and are referred to as untrimmed videos. Smarter monitoring is a historical necessity in which commonly occurring, regular, and out-of-the-ordinary activities can be automatically identified using intelligence systems and computer vision technology. In a long video, human activity may be present anywhere in the video. There can be a single or multiple human activities present… More >

Muhammad Atif Hanif¹, Tallha Akram¹, Aamir Shahzad², Muhammad Attique Khan³, Usman Tariq⁴, Jung-In Choi⁵, Yunyoung Nam^6,*, Zanib Zulfiqar⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 3221-3234, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019815

Abstract Sensors based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) have numerous applications in eHeath, sports, fitness assessments, ambient assisted living (AAL), human-computer interaction and many more. The human physical activity can be monitored by using wearable sensors or external devices. The usage of external devices has disadvantages in terms of cost, hardware installation, storage, computational time and lighting conditions dependencies. Therefore, most of the researchers used smart devices like smart phones, smart bands and watches which contain various sensors like accelerometer, gyroscope, GPS etc., and adequate processing capabilities. For the task of recognition, human activities can be broadly categorized as basic and complex… More >

Altaf Hussain^1,2, Khan Muhammad¹, Hayat Ullah¹, Amin Ullah^1,4, Ali Shariq Imran³, Mi Young Lee¹, Seungmin Rho¹, Muhammad Sajjad^2,3,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.2, pp. 2171-2190, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.018181

Abstract Digital surveillance systems are ubiquitous and continuously generate massive amounts of data, and manual monitoring is required in order to recognise human activities in public areas. Intelligent surveillance systems that can automatically ide.pngy normal and abnormal activities are highly desirable, as these would allow for efficient monitoring by selecting only those camera feeds in which abnormal activities are occurring. This paper proposes an energy-efficient camera prioritisation framework that intelligently adjusts the priority of cameras in a vast surveillance network using feedback from the activity recognition system. The proposed system addresses the limitations of existing manual monitoring surveillance systems using a… More >

Muhammad Ramzan^1,2,*, Adnan Abid¹, Shahid Mahmood Awan^1,3

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 1829-1844, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.017522

Abstract In the current era, automatic surveillance has become an active research problem due to its vast real-world applications, particularly for maintaining law and order. A continuous manual monitoring of human activities is a tedious task. The use of cameras and automatic detection of unusual surveillance activity has been growing exponentially over the last few years. Various computer vision techniques have been applied for observation and surveillance of real-world activities. This research study focuses on detecting and recognizing unusual activities in an academic situation such as examination halls, which may help the invigilators observe and restrict the students from cheating or… More >

Keshav Thapa, Zubaer Md. Abdhulla AI, Yang Sung-Hyun^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.2, pp. 1653-1670, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.015660

Abstract In this era, deep learning methods offer a broad spectrum of efficient and original algorithms to recognize or predict an output when given a sequence of inputs. In current trends, deep learning methods using recent long short-term memory (LSTM) algorithms try to provide superior performance, but they still have limited effectiveness when detecting sequences of complex human activity. In this work, we adapted the LSTM algorithm into a synchronous algorithm (sync-LSTM), enabling the model to take multiple parallel input sequences to produce multiple parallel synchronized output sequences. The proposed method is implemented for simultaneous human activity recognition (HAR) using heterogeneous… More >

Ahmed A. M. Jamel^1,∗, Bahriye Akay^2,†

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.35, No.6, pp. 441-456, 2020, DOI:10.32604/csse.2020.35.441

Abstract Recently, owing to the capability of mobile and wearable devices to sense daily human activity, human activity recognition (HAR) datasets have become a large-scale data resource. Due to the heterogeneity and nonlinearly separable nature of the data recorded by these sensors, the datasets generated require special techniques to accurately predict human activity and mitigate the considerable heterogeneity. Consequently, classic clustering algorithms do not work well with these data. Hence, kernelization, which converts the data into a new feature vector representation, is performed on nonlinearly separable data. This study aims to present a robust method to perform HAR data clustering to… More >

Sun-Taag Choe, We-Duke Cho^*, Jai-Hoon Kim, and Ki-Hyung Kim

Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing, Vol.26, No.4, pp. 679-691, 2020, DOI:10.32604/iasc.2020.010102

Abstract Recent research on activity recognition in wearable devices has identified a key challenge: k-nearest neighbors (k-NN) algorithms have a high operational time complexity. Thus, these algorithms are difficult to utilize in embedded wearable devices. Herein, we propose a method for reducing this complexity. We apply a clustering algorithm for learning data and assign labels to each cluster according to the maximum likelihood. Experimental results show that the proposed method achieves effective operational levels for implementation in embedded devices; however, the accuracy is slightly lower than that of a traditional k-NN algorithm. Additionally, our method provides the advantage of controlling the… More >