Hierarchical span-based conditional random fields for labeling and segmenting events in wearable sensor data streams

Roy J. Adams, Nazir Saleheen, Edison Thomaz, Abhinav Parate, Santosh Kumar, Benjamin M. Marlin

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Abstract

The field of mobile health (mHealth) has the potential to yield new insights into health and behavior through the analysis of continuously recorded data from wearable health and activity sensors. In this paper, we present a hierarchical span-based conditional random field model for the key problem of jointly detecting discrete events in such sensor data streams and segmenting these events into high-level activity sessions. Our model includes higher-order cardinality factors and inter-event duration factors to capture domain-specific structure in the label space. We show that our model supports exact MAP inference in quadratic time via dynamic programming, which we leverage to perform learning in the structured support vector machine framework. We apply the model to the problems of smoking and eating detection using four real data sets. Our results show statistically significant improvements in segmentation performance relative to a hierarchical pairwise CRF.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication33rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2016
EditorsMaria Florina Balcan, Kilian Q. Weinberger
PublisherInternational Machine Learning Society (IMLS)
Pages529-538
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781510829008
StatePublished - 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event33rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2016 - New York City, United States
Duration: Jun 19 2016Jun 24 2016

Publication series

Name33rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2016
Volume1

Conference

Conference33rd International Conference on Machine Learning, ICML 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew York City
Period6/19/166/24/16

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Software
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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