Predicting Human Actions Using a Hybrid of ReliefF Feature Selection and Kernel-Based Extreme Learning Machine

Human activity recognition (HAR) is a growing field that provides valuable information about a person. Sensor-equipped smartwatches stand out in these studies in terms of their portability and cost. HAR systems usually preprocess raw signals, decompose signals, and then extract attributes to be used in the classifier. Attribute selection is an important step to reduce data size and provide appropriate parameters. In this chapter, classification of eight different actions (brushing teeth, walking, running, vacuuming, writing on the board, writing on paper, using the keyboard, and stationary) has been performed with smartwatch motion sensor data. Forty-two different features have been extracted from the motion sensor signals and the feature selection has been performed with the ReliefF algorithm. After that, performance evaluation has been performed with four different machine learning methods. With this study in which the best results have been obtained with the kernel-based extreme learning machine (KELM) algorithm, estimation of human action has been performed with high accuracy.