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An optimized hybrid deep learning model using ensemble learning approach for human walking activities recognition

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Recent advancements in edge computing devices motivate us to develop a sustainable and reliable technique for multiple gait activities recognition using wearable sensors. This research work presents the multitask human walking activities recognition using human gait patterns. Human locomotion is defined as the change in the joint angles of hip, knee and ankle. To achieve the aforementioned objective, the data are collected for 50 subjects in a controlled laboratory environment using inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensors for 7 different activities. The IMU sensor is placed on the chest, left thigh, and right thigh. Total 100 samples are collected for all 7 activities. The sampling rate considered was 50 Hz. Following 7 walking activities are performed for all the 50 subjects: (i) natural walk, (ii) standing, (iii) climbing stairs, (iv) cycling, (v) jogging, (vi)running, (vii) knees bending(Crouching). The major contribution of this research paper is the design of four hybrid deep learning models to provide the generic activity recognition framework and tune the performance. The following combination of the deep learning model is designed for the classification of gait activities, namely, convolution neural network–long short-term memory (CNN–LSTM), CNN–gated recurrent unit (CNN–GRU), LSTM–CNN and LSTM–GRU. To support edge computing, the ensemble learning is utilized to optimized the model size. The proposed ensemble learning-based hybrid deep learning framework has provided a promising classification accuracy of 99.34% over other models. The other models namely CNN, LSTM, GRU, CNN–LSTM, LSTM–CNN, CNN–GRU, GRU–CNN have achieved 97.26%, 90.67%, 77.38%, 97.83%, 94.35%, 97.64%, 96.98% accuracy, respectively, on our HAG data set. The proposed technique is also validated on MHEALTH data set for comparative analysis. The hybrid deep learning model in combination with ensemble learning has outperformed other techniques. The optimized code can be used on small computation devices for walking activity recognition.

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The author(s) would like to thank all the participants who have allowed us to capture the data using a wearable device. The author(s) would like to express thanks to Human locomotion analysis laboratory of the Institute of Technology Gopeshwar, Uttarakhand and Human motion capturing and analysis unit of MANIT Bhopal for providing the opportunity to collect data and providing the computing facility.

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This paper is the results of Project Funded by SERB, DST Govt. of India under the schema of Early career award to Dr. Vijay Bhaskar Semwal, MANIT Bhopal, DST No: ECR/2018/000203 dated on 04/06/2019.

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Semwal, V.B., Gupta, A. & Lalwani, P. An optimized hybrid deep learning model using ensemble learning approach for human walking activities recognition. J Supercomput 77, 12256–12279 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11227-021-03768-7

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