A Novel Approach of Ontology-Based Activity Segmentation and Recognition Using Pattern Discovery in Multi-resident Homes

Abstract

Activity recognition is one of the preliminary steps in designing and implementing assistive services in smart homes. Such services help identify abnormality or automate events generated while occupants do, as well as intend to do, their desired activities of daily living (ADLs) inside a smart home environment. However, most of the existing systems are applied for single-resident homes. Multiple people living together create additional complexity in modeling numbers of overlapping and concurrent activities. In this paper, we introduce a hybrid mechanism between ontology-based and unsupervised machine learning strategies in creating activity models used for activity recognition in the context of multi-resident homes. On comparing with related data-driven approaches, the proposed technique is technically and practically scalable to real-world scenarios due to fast training time and easy implementation. An average activity recognition rate of 95.83% on CASAS Spring dataset was achieved and the run time per recognition operation was measured as 12.86 ms.