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Tuning the Hyperparameters of the 1D CNN Model to Improve the Performance of Human Activity Recognition

Document Type : Research Paper

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Computer Science Dept., University of Technology-Iraq, Alsina’a street, 10066 Baghdad, Iraq.

Abstract

The human activity recognition (HAR) field has recently become one of the trendiest research topics due to ready-made sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes equipped with smartphones and smartwatches as an embedded devices, decreasing the cost and power consumption. As a result, human activity is considered a time series classification problem. Now a day, deep learning approaches such as Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) have been successful when implemented with HAR to learn automatically higher-order features and, at the same time, work as a classifier. Recently, a one-dimensional Convolutional Neural Network (1D CNN) has been suggested and carried out at the best performance levels in numerous applications, such as the classification of personalized biomedical data and time series classification. This paper studies how to leverage a 1D single CNN model to produce an excellent performance on the human activity raw data. This is done by empirically tuning the values of hyperparameters, such as kernel size, filter maps, number of epochs, batch size, and promoting an advanced multi-headed 1D CNN by employing each convolutional layer with a different kernel size to gain an ensemble–like results. The selected hyper parameter's impact is evaluated on a publicly available dataset named UCI HAR collected from smartphone sensors to perform six activities. A significant determinant of better results depends on the hyperparameter that has been chosen. The results demonstrated that tuning the hyperparameter of 1D CNN increased activity recognition accuracy.

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Highlights

  • How to leverage a 1D single CNN model to produce an excellent performance on the human activity raw data.
  • Better results depend on the hyperparameter that has been chosen.
  •   Tuning the hyperparameter of 1D CNN increased the accuracy of activity recognition.

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Engineering and Technology Journal
Volume 40, Issue 4
Science
, 12 articles
April 2022
Page 547-554
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