Using Federated Learning for human activity recognition from personalized wearable devices

Caio Moreti Koga

Solid lab, Knight Foundation School of Computing and Information Sciences, Florida International University

Abstract
Large sets of data can be gathered through wearable IoT devices, which can provide useful information such as someone's geolocation, health information, and more. This information can be used as training
data for Machine Learning, and can help systems predict possible health problems, for example. The issue, however, is the lack of privacy in this process, leaving people insecure about sharing their own
personal details. Federate Learning (FL), a subfield of Distributed Machine Learning, is a decentralized learning paradigm that trains data over a large amount of distributed computing devices while protecting
the privacy of edge devices/users. In FL, the central server chooses the training method that will be used in all the devices and transmits it to all the nodes. Then, each node trains their own personalized data
using the server’s model. This is an important step of the process because since the data is trained locally in each node, the results turn out to be much more personalized, leading to greater accuracy and a
faster improvement of the model overall. In the next step. the server receives the results from the nodes and updates its parameters in order to make the model more efficient and more accurate. In this step,
it’s important to note that no raw information is sent back to the server, thus preserving the privacy of the user. The goal for this project is to gather human activity data and use it to train a classification
Machine Learning model, which will predict what type of exercise the person is doing. To this end, we used the Daily and Sports Activities Dataset generated by the UCI Machine Learning Repository. It consists
of motion sensor data of 19 different exercises, which range from sitting and lying on back to cycling and playing basketball, that was performed by 4 male and 4 female participants, for about 5 minutes. In this
dataset, there are 9120 instances and 5625 attributes, and 45 features, which are sensors in the torso, right arm, left arm, right leg, and left leg.

Motivation Objective Methods Literature Review

Evaluation Metrics Conclusion
• We will be using Federated Learning
Title of Paper Method Pros
• Personalized wearable devices • Use Federated FedHealth: A Federated FedHealth can gather Classification The evaluation metrics
such as smart watches are filled Learning to classify (FL), a type of Machine Learning that Federated Transfer Learning [2] healthcare data from various accuracy. showed that FedHealth
Learning Framework and Transfer institutes while maintaining achieved better results
with information on biomedical what type of activity trains data in clusters and then sends it for Wearable Learning. security. It can also create a than other methods

data, heart activity signal, and a person is doing back to a server Healthcare [1] personalized machine
learning method based on the
such as KNN and SVM.

human activity data based on human • In FL, data is decentralized, which data’s characteristics.

• This data can be used for health activity data. means that the server does not receive PMF: A Privacy- Federated PMF can predict human Top-K accuracy. Mobility modeling
preserving Human Learning and mobility while protecting achieves a better result
monitoring, activity any private information, only the Mobility Prediction an Optimization personal data. than any other tested

recognition, sleep monitoring, training results Framework via

Federated Learning
mechanism model, which includes
personal models.

and much more • The server then updates its parameters [3]

based on the results received

Experimental Design References Acknowledgments

[1] Chen, Yiqiang, et al. "Fedhealth: A federated transfer learning framework for
wearable healthcare." IEEE Intelligent Systems 35.4 (2020): 83-93.
[2] A. Imteaj, U. Thakker, S. Wang, J. Li and M. H. Amini, "A Survey on Federated Learning
for Resource-Constrained IoT Devices," in IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 9, no. 1,
pp. 1-24, 1 Jan.1, 2022, doi: 10.1109/JIOT.2021.3095077.
[3] Feng, Jie & Rong, Can & Sun, Funing & Guo, Diansheng & Li, Yong. (2020). PMF: A
Privacy-preserving Human Mobility Prediction Framework via Federated Learning.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National
Science Foundation under Grants numbers CNS-2137791, HRD-
1834620. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or
recommendations expressed in this material are those of the
authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National
Science Foundation.