Time Series Classification Using Deep Learning for HAR Based on Smart Wearable Sensors

Abstract

In the last decades, time series classification (TSC) has emerged as one of the most challenging issues in data mining, and extensive studies have been done on various methods, including algorithm-based and learning-based techniques. Sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR) is a TSC issue that has become one of the most sought-after fields among business and academia specialists because of the proliferation of smartphone technology and wearable movement sensors. Conventional approaches to feature extraction provide a significant challenge in feature selection. Deep learning is an efficient strategy in the HAR scientific field and has solved the issue of feature selection. Nevertheless, several obstacles remain to study topics, including classifier interpretation. This article integrates well-known deep learning methods, namely convolutional neural networks and RNN-based models. The new approach proved to be more effective than the existing state-of-the-art approach. We assessed our network on the multivariant time-series benchmark (UCI-HAR) and revealed that our model surpasses other models in terms of training time and overall accuracy.