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Periodicity detection and its application in lifelog data

Hu, Feiyan (2016) Periodicity detection and its application in lifelog data. PhD thesis, Dublin City University.

Abstract
Wearable sensors are catching our attention not only in industry but also in the market. We can now acquire sensor data from different types of health tracking devices like smart watches, smart bands, lifelog cameras and most smart phones are capable of tracking and logging information using built-in sensors. As data is generated and collected from various sources constantly, researchers have focused on interpreting and understanding the semantics of this longitudinal multi-modal data. One challenge is the fusion of multi-modal data and achieving good performance on tasks such activity recognition, event detection and event segmentation. The classical approach to process the data generated by wearable sensors has three main parts: 1) Event segmentation 2) Event recognition 3) Event retrieval. Many papers have been published in each of the three fields. This thesis has focused on the longitudinal aspect of the data from wearable sensors, instead of concentrating on the data over a short period of time. The following aspects are several key research questions in the thesis. Does longitudinal sensor data have unique features than can distinguish the subject generating the data from other subjects ? In other words, from the longitudinal perspective, does the data from different subjects share more common structure/similarity/identical patterns so that it is difficult to identify a subject using the data. If this is the case, what are those common patterns ? If we are able to eliminate those similarities among all the data, does the data show more specific features that we can use to model the data series and predict the future values ? If there are repeating patterns in longitudinal data, we can use different methods to compute the periodicity of the recurring patterns and furthermore to identify and extract those patterns. Following that we could be able to compare local data over a short time period with more global patterns in order to show the regularity of the local data. Some case studies are included in the thesis to show the value of longitudinal lifelog data related to a correlation of health conditions and training performance.
Metadata
Item Type:Thesis (PhD)
Date of Award:16 September 2016
Refereed:No
Supervisor(s):Smeaton, Alan F. and Newman, Eamonn
Uncontrolled Keywords:longitudinal sensor data
Subjects:Computer Science > Lifelog
Computer Science > Machine learning
Computer Science > Multimedia systems
Computer Science > Image processing
DCU Faculties and Centres:Research Institutes and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Engineering and Computing > School of Computing
Use License:This item is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License. View License
Funders:Science Foundation Ireland under SFI/12/RC/2289, European Community’s Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement 288199 (Dem@Care)
ID Code:21399
Deposited On:18 Nov 2016 15:43 by Alan Smeaton . Last Modified 16 Feb 2022 16:06
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