A Deep Residual Network for Recognizing Transportation Vehicles using Smartphone Sensors

Abstract

The development of sensor technology has enabled the development of a variety of applications for human activity detection by wearable devices. Identifying transportation modes for contextual support in the execution of systems such as driver assistance and intelligent transportation planning is one of the advantageous applications of an intelligent transportation system (ITS). Due to the widespread use of smartphones in today’s world, a mobile application-based solution is proposed that can significantly reduce the cost of implementing ITS. In this work, we recognized transportation vehicles using the accelerometer and gyroscope data collected by smartphones. To achieve the research goal, this work developed a deep residual network called DeepResNeXt that used convolutional kernels and residual connections for transportation vehicle recognition. We used a public benchmark dataset to evaluate the proposed deep residual network. Experimental results showed that DeepResNeXt was achieved better accuracy and F1-score than previous works. In addition, this work also investigated the effect of sensor types on recognition performance. The results showed that the deep residual network trained with accelerometers achieved higher accuracy and F1-score than the network trained with gyroscope data.