Multilevel neural networks with dual-stage feature fusion for human activity recognition

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Hauptverfasser: Brery, Abeer FathAllah, Gallardo-Antolín, Ascensión, Gonzalez-Carrasco, Israel, Fakhry, Mahmoud
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author Brery, Abeer FathAllah
Gallardo-Antolín, Ascensión
Gonzalez-Carrasco, Israel
Fakhry, Mahmoud
author_facet Brery, Abeer FathAllah
Gallardo-Antolín, Ascensión
Gonzalez-Carrasco, Israel
Fakhry, Mahmoud
contents Human activity recognition (HAR) refers to the process of identifying human actions and activities using data collected from sensors. Neural networks, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, convolutional LSTM, and their hybrid combinations, have demonstrated exceptional performance in various research domains. Developing a multilevel individual or hybrid model for HAR involves strategically integrating multiple networks to capitalize on their complementary strengths. The structural arrangement of these components is a critical factor influencing the overall performance. This study explores a novel framework of a two-level network architecture with dual-stage feature fusion: late fusion, which combines the outputs from the first network level, and intermediate fusion, which integrates the features from both the first and second levels. We evaluated $15$ different network architectures of CNNs, LSTMs, and convolutional LSTMs, incorporating late fusion with and without intermediate fusion, to identify the optimal configuration. Experimental evaluation on two public benchmark datasets demonstrates that architectures incorporating both late and intermediate fusion achieve higher accuracy than those relying on late fusion alone. Moreover, the optimal configuration outperforms baseline models, thereby validating its effectiveness for HAR.
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spellingShingle Multilevel neural networks with dual-stage feature fusion for human activity recognition
Brery, Abeer FathAllah
Gallardo-Antolín, Ascensión
Gonzalez-Carrasco, Israel
Fakhry, Mahmoud
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Human activity recognition (HAR) refers to the process of identifying human actions and activities using data collected from sensors. Neural networks, such as convolutional neural networks (CNNs), long short-term memory (LSTM) networks, convolutional LSTM, and their hybrid combinations, have demonstrated exceptional performance in various research domains. Developing a multilevel individual or hybrid model for HAR involves strategically integrating multiple networks to capitalize on their complementary strengths. The structural arrangement of these components is a critical factor influencing the overall performance. This study explores a novel framework of a two-level network architecture with dual-stage feature fusion: late fusion, which combines the outputs from the first network level, and intermediate fusion, which integrates the features from both the first and second levels. We evaluated $15$ different network architectures of CNNs, LSTMs, and convolutional LSTMs, incorporating late fusion with and without intermediate fusion, to identify the optimal configuration. Experimental evaluation on two public benchmark datasets demonstrates that architectures incorporating both late and intermediate fusion achieve higher accuracy than those relying on late fusion alone. Moreover, the optimal configuration outperforms baseline models, thereby validating its effectiveness for HAR.
title Multilevel neural networks with dual-stage feature fusion for human activity recognition
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16577