D. Patterson, D. Fox, H. Kautz, and M. Philipose

Fine-Grained Activity Recognition by Aggregating Abstract Object Usage

Proc. of IEEE 9th International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC) 2005.


 


Abstract

In this paper we present results related to achieving finegrained activity recognition for context-aware computing applications. We examine the advantages and challenges of reasoning with globally unique object instances detected by an RFID glove. We present a sequence of increasingly powerful probabilistic graphical models for activity recognition. We show the advantages of adding additional complexity and conclude with a model that can reason tractably about aggregated object instances and gracefully generalizes from object instances to their classes by using abstraction smoothing. We apply these models to data collected from a morning household routine.


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