A Hybrid Deep Neural Network for Human Activity Recognition based on IoT Sensors

Abstract

Internet of things (IOT) sensors, has received a lot of interest in recent years due to the rise of application demands in domains like ubiquitous and context-aware computing, activity surveillance, ambient assistive living and more specifically in Human activity recognition. The recent development in deep learning allows to extract high-level features automatically, and eliminates the reliance on traditional machine learning techniques, which depended heavily on hand crafted features. In this paper, we introduce a network that can identify a variety of everyday human actions that can be carried out in a smart home environment, by using raw signals generated from Internet of Thing's motion sensors. We design our architecture basing on a combination of convolutional neural network (CNN) and Gated recurrent unit (GRU) layers. The CNN is first deployed to extract local and scale-invariance features, then the GRU layers are used to extract sequential temporal dependencies. We tested our model called (CNGRU) on three public datasets. It achieves an accuracy better or comparable to existing state of the art models.