Tutorial on Deep Learning for Human Activity Recognition
It offers practical guidance for researchers and practitioners in wearable computing, but is incremental as it synthesizes existing methods.
This tutorial provides a hands-on walk-through of the data pipeline for deep learning in human activity recognition, covering best practices for experiments, datasets, and validation.
Activity recognition systems that are capable of estimating human activities from wearable inertial sensors have come a long way in the past decades. Not only have state-of-the-art methods moved away from feature engineering and have fully adopted end-to-end deep learning approaches, best practices for setting up experiments, preparing datasets, and validating activity recognition approaches have similarly evolved. This tutorial was first held at the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC'21) and International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp'21). The tutorial, after a short introduction in the research field of activity recognition, provides a hands-on and interactive walk-through of the most important steps in the data pipeline for the deep learning of human activities. All presentation slides shown during the tutorial, which also contain links to all code exercises, as well as the link of the GitHub page of the tutorial can be found on: https://mariusbock.github.io/dl-for-har