Multi-scale Context-Aware Networks Based on Fragment Association for Human Activity Recognition

Multi-scale Context-Aware Networks Based on Fragment Association for Human Activity Recognition

Zhiqiong Wang, Hanyu Liu, Boyang Zhao, Qi Shen, Mingzhe Li, Ningfeng Que, Mingke Yan, Junchang Xin

Proceedings of the Thirty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Main Track. Pages 3169-3177. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2024/351

Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition (HAR) constitutes a key component of many artificial intelligence applications. Although deep feature extraction technology is constantly updated and iterated with excellent results, it is still a difficult task to find a balance between performance and computational efficiency. Through an in-depth exploration of the inherent characteristics of HAR data, we propose a lightweight feature perception model, which encompasses an internal feature extractor and a contextual feature perceiver. The model mainly consists of two stages. The first stage is a hierarchical multi-scale feature extraction module, which is composed of deep separable convolution and multi-head attention mechanism. This module serves to extract conventional features for Human Activity Recognition. After the feature goes through a fragment recombination operation, it is passed into the Context-Aware module of the second stage, which is based on Retentive Transformer and optimized by Dropkey method to efficiently extract the relationship between the feature fragments, so as to mine more valuable feature information. Importantly, this does not add too much complexity to the model, thereby preventing excessive resource consumption. We conducted extensive experimental validation on multiple publicly available HAR datasets.
Keywords:
Humans and AI: HAI: Applications
Data Mining: DM: Networks