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Activity recognition is an important component for the ambient assisted living systems, which perform home monitoring and assistance of elderly people or patients with risk factors. The paper presents a prototype system for activity recognition based on a multi-agent architecture. In the system, the context of the person is first detected using a domain ontology. Next, the human position is obtained and together with the context forms a sub-activity. The sequence of successive sub-activities is then assembled in a human activity, which is recognized using a stochastic grammar.
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Mocanu, I., Florea, A.M. (2011). A Multi-agent System for Human Activity Recognition in Smart Environments. In: Brazier, F.M.T., Nieuwenhuis, K., Pavlin, G., Warnier, M., Badica, C. (eds) Intelligent Distributed Computing V. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 382. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24013-3_31
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