Introducing a New Benchmarked Dataset for Activity Monitoring

Introducing a New Benchmarked Dataset for Activity Monitoring
Attila Reiss, Didier Stricker
Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers IEEE International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC-2012), June 18-22, Newcastle, United Kingdom

Abstract:

This paper addresses the lack of a commonly used, standard dataset and established benchmarking problems for physical activity monitoring. A new dataset — recorded from 18 activities performed by 9 subjects, wearing 3 IMUs and a HR-monitor — is created and made publicly available. Moreover, 4 classification problems are benchmarked on the dataset, using a standard data processing chain and 5 different classifiers. The benchmark shows the difficulty of the classification tasks and exposes new challenges for physical activity monitoring.