A PROJECT REPORT

On

HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION THROUGH ENSEMBLE

LEARNING OF MULTIPLE CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL
NETWORKS
Submitted by

A.KEERTHI 19KE1A0503
D.NAGA POOJITHA 19KE1A0535
G.SAI ARSHITHA 19KE1A0544
G.AMRUTHAVALLI 19KE1A0547

BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY
In
Computer Science And Engineering
Under the Guidance of
Mr.G.Rama Swamy
HOD,Department of CSE

DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

MALINENI LAKSHMAIAH WOMEN’S ENGINEERING COLLEGE
(Accredited by NBA,Approved by AICTE & Affiliated to JNTU KAKINADA)
Pulladigunta,Guntur-522017
2019 - 2023
 MALINENI LAKSHMAIAH WOMEN’S ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Pulladigunta(V),Guntur-522017
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

This is to certify that the project entitled “HUMAN

ACTIVITY
RECOGNITION THROUGH ENSEMBLE LEARNING OF
MULTIPLE CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS” is the
bonafide work carried out by

A.KEERTHI 19KE1A0503
D.NAGA POOJITHA 19KE1A0535
G.SAI ARSHITHA 19KE1A0544
G.AMRUTHAVALLI 19KE1A0547

B.Tech, students of MLWEC, Affiliated to JNTUK, Kakinada in partial

fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the Degree of BACHELOR OF
TECHNOLOGY with the specialisation in COMPUTER SCIENCE AND
ENGINEERING during the Academic year 2019-2023

Signature of the Guide Head of the Department

Viva-voce Held on ____________________________

Internal Examiner External Examiner

 MALINENI LAKSHMAIAH WOMENS ENGINEERING COLLEGE
Pulladigunta(V),Guntur-522017
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

DECLARATION
We hereby declare that the project work entitled “HUMAN ACTIVITY
RECOGNITION THROUGH ENSEMBLE LEARNING OF MULTIPLE
CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS ” is entirely my original work
carried out under the guidance of Mr.Dr.G.RAMASWAMY, HOD, Department
of Computer Science and Engineering, Malineni Lakshmaiah Women’s
Engineering College, Pulladigunta, Guntur, JNTU Kakinada,A.P,India for the
award of the degree of BACHELOR OF TECHNOLOGY with the
specialisation in COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. The results
carried out in this project report have not been submitted in part or full for
the award of any degree or diploma of this or any other university or institute.

A.KEERTHI 19KE1A0503
D.NAGA POOJITHA 19KE1A0535
G.SAI ARSHITHA 19KE1A0544
G.AMRUTHAVALLI 19KE1A0547
 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

All endeavours over a long period can be successful only with the
advice and support of many well-wishers. I take this opportunity to express my
appreciation to all of them.
We wish to express deep sense of gratitude to my beloved and respected
guideMr.Dr.G.RAMASWAMY, HOD , of CSE Malineni Lakshmaiah Women’s
Engineering College, Guntur, for her valuable guidance, suggestions and
constant encouragement and keen interest enriched throughout the course of
project work. We extend sincere thanks to the HOD, Mr. Dr.G.RAMASWAMY
for his kind co- operation in completing and making this project a success.
We extend sincere thanks to the Principal, Prof. Dr.J.APPARAO for his
kind co- operation in completing and making this project a success.
We would like to thank the Management for their kind cooperation and for
providing infrastructure facilities.
We extend thanks to all the Teaching staff of the Department of CSE for
their support and encouragement during the course of my project work. I also
thank the NonTeaching staff of the CSE department for being helpful in many
ways in successful completion of my work.
Finally, we thank all those who helped me directly or indirectly in
successful completion of this project work.

A.KEERTHI 19KE1A0503
D.NAGA POOJITHA 19KE1A0535
G.SAI ARSHITHA 19KE1A0544
G.AMRUTHAVALLI 19KE1A0547
 INDEX

1.ABSTRACTION…………………………………………………..
2.INTRODUCTION…………………………………………………..
3. EXIST SYSTEM……………………………………………………
4. PROPOSED SYSTEM………………………………………………
5. SYSTEM DESIGN…………………………………………………..
6. LITERATURE SURVEY……………………………………………..
7. CONCLUSION……………………………………………………….
HUMAN ACTIVITY RECOGNITION THROUGH ENSEMBLE LEARNING
OF MULTIPLE CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK
Human Activity Recognition is a field concerned with the recognition of physical
human activities based on the interpretation of sensor data, including one-dimensional
time series data. Traditionally, hand-crafted features are relied upon to develop the
machine learning models for activity recognition. However, that is a challenging task
and requires a high degree of domain expertise and feature engineering. With the
development in deep neural networks, it is much easier as models can automatically
learn features from raw sensor data, yielding improved classification results. In this
paper, we present a novel approach for human activity recognition using ensemble
learning of multiple convolutional neural network (CNN) models. Three different
CNN models are trained on the publicly available dataset and multiple ensembles of
the models are created. The ensemble of the first two models gives an accuracy of
94% which is better than the methods available in the literature.
 ABSTRACT:

Human Activity Recognition is a field concerned with the recognition of

physical human activities based on the interpretation of sensor data, including
one-dimensional time series data.Traditionally, hand-crafted features are relied upon
to develop the machine learning models for activity recognition. However, that is a
challenging task and requires a high degree of domain expertise and feature
engineering. With the development in deep neural networks, it is much easier as
models can automatically learn features from raw sensor data, yielding improved
classification results. In this paper, we present a novel approach for human activity
recognition using ensemble learning of multiple convolutional neural network (CNN)
models. Three different CNN models are trained on the publicly available dataset and
multiple ensembles of the models are created. The ensemble of the first two models
gives an accuracy of 94% which is better than the methods available in the literature.
 INTRODUCTION:

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) has developed its application in multiple fields
and for a variety of tasks, including smart healthcare systems, automated surveillance
and security. For the purpose of HAR, on-body sensors, such as tri-axial
accelerometers, gyroscopes, proximity sensors, magnetometers, and temperature
sensors, etc., are preferred for three main reasons; Firstly, they omit the privacy issues
posed by video sensors. Secondly, an entire body sensor network (BSN) allows for
more accurate deployment of a signal acquisition system, and finally,they reduce the
restrictions in place due to the environment and the stationary placements of cameras,
as in video based datasets. HAR has identified its crucial place in ubiquitous
computing [1] because of the eased process of collecting data with embedded sensors,
especially with the widespread use of smartphones in the last decade. Therefore, smart
phones can essentially serve as a network of on-body sensors for data collection.
Previously, the process of feature extraction from these collected data points remained
heuristic, hand-crafted, and task dependent. The feature extraction process has been
dependent on the usage of features that are purposefully designed and selected
depending on the application. Statistical measures, such as the mean, and the
variance, and transform coding measures, such as Fourier transforms, were extracted
from the raw signals and subsequently used for classification methods. These methods
possess the limitation of being bound to the specific classification tasks they are
designed for. Manual selection of features also poses the problem of losing out on
information from the raw signal [2].With the advancements in deep learning, this
process has been accelerated with unprecedented improvements, especially with the
availability of more data and higher computation power.
The feature selection process no longer needs to be task-dependent as deep learning
models can extract features automatically and they can be applied to a range of
classification tasks. With the provision of deep learning, it makes a logical flow to
maximise the use of this state-of-the-art research for concentrated implementation of
HAR. Therefore, the aim of this work is to develop a systematic process for a more
streamlined feature representation for improved activity recognition through ensemble
learning of CNNs [3]. The existing work in the field of HAR includes a very avid
implementation of convolutional neural networks. Deep CNN in [4] adapts automated
feature learning from raw inputs through its novel unification layer that concatenates
feature maps at the end. A simpler CNN based approach is described in [5] where the
model is trained for 3 different dataset subgroups extracted from the same dataset
repository. A long short-term memory (LSTM) network based feature extraction
approach along with a softmax classifier is utilised in [2] due to the effectiveness of
LSTMs for repetitive tasks. The combination of recurrent neural network (RNN) and
LSTM architecture, RNN-LSTM, has also been explored for this application since the
dataset used is one-dimensional, similar to that of applications in natural language
processing (NLP) for which RNN has produced the most promising results [6]. HAR
has also been implemented through hybrid models of CNN and RNN-LSTM for
improved performance in [7]. Such a hybrid model combines the best of both
worlds as RNNs and LSTMs are able to recognize short range activities with greater
accuracy due to better inference of time-order relationships between sensor readings.
CNNs possess a better capability of inferring repetitive, long-term activities by more
effectively learning features in recursive patterns. An interesting approach towards
HAR has been highlighted using deep belief networks (DBNs) through restricted
Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) to ensure that the model doesn’t overfit and the time
consumption during the training process remains restricted [8]. Another hybrid
approach for sequential human activity recognition is highlighted in [9].
It explores the use of an extreme learning machine (ELM), which is a feedforward
network with selected hidden layers and nodes, which do not require tuning. The ELM
is used as a classifier and is incorporated with a combined CNN-LSTM architecture as
the feature extractor. The combination of convolutional operations with an LSTM for
recurrent units is highlighted for effective sequential activity recognition. Another
LSTM-CNN architecture for HAR is encountered in [10]. In this architecture, the raw
data collected by mobile sensors is fed into a two-layer LSTM followed by
convolutional layers. In addition, a global average pooling layer (GAP) is also applied
for reducing model parameters. Moreover, a batch normalisation layer (BN) is also
added after the GAP layer to speed up convergence. The model is tested with various
HAR datasets with high evaluation accuracy. [11] introduces a method that takes into
account the increased computational complexities and computing resource overheads
tied with many deep learning approaches. This approach makes the task of HAR more
efficient and manageable on mobile devices with lower computational resources. The
method outlined in the paper uses feature extraction on multiple segments of the raw
signal using temporal convolutions on the spectrogram domain of the data. This
makes the learned features invariant to changes in various properties. The efficacy of
existing methodologies for HAR are contingent upon a wide variety of factors. With
traditional deep learning approaches, the problems of overfitting and time
consumption for model training are heavily present. These models also create a
difficulty in comparison with HAR models that are developed, keeping in mind
devices with lower computational complexities, such as mobile devices. Here in this
paper, we present an approach that is of forming three CNNs with one-dimensional
(1D) convolutional layers for activity prediction on 1D HAR dataset. The 1D
convolution layer creates a convolution kernel that is convolved with the layer input
over a single spatial or temporal dimension. It then further goes to ensemble the three
individual models together by taking their averages.
This, ensemble learning as a multiple classifier system [12], improves the model
performance and produces results better than those of individual models. We then
further on create other possible ensembles of two models, i.e. of first and second,
second and third, and, first and third models. Ensemble learning as a whole has shown
an improvement in the performance of the model. The rest of the paper is organised as
follows: Section II presents the details of dataset, Section III describes the
methodology, Section IV presents and discusses the obtained After pre-processing, we
segment and shape the data such that it is compatible with 1D convolutional layers of
the deployed CNNs.For segmenting the data, we first generate indexes of a fixed size
window and move by half the window size. Then we generate fixed size segments and
append the windowed data such that the dataset created has dimensions such as [total
segments, input width and input channel] which is[24403, 90, 3] for our case.
EXISTING SYSTEM:
In the existing work with wearable based or non-wearable based. Wearable based
HAR systems make use of wearable sensors that are attached to the human body.
Wearable based HAR systems are intrusive in nature. Non-wearable based HAR
systems do not require any sensors to attach on the human or to carry any device for
activity recognition. Non-wearable based approaches can be further categorised into
sensor based HAR systems . Sensor based technology uses RF signals from sensors,
such as RFID, PIR sensors and Wifi signals to detect human activities. Sensor based
HAR systems are non-intrusive in nature but may not provide high accuracy.
DISADVANTAGES OF EXISTING SYSTEM:

➢ Require the optical sensors to be attached on the human and also

demand the need of multiple camera settings.
➢ Wearable dives cost are high.
➢ Algorithm: Markerbased motion Capture (MoCap) Framework.
PROPOSED SYSTEM:
We present an approach that consists of forming three CNNs with one-dimensional
(1D) convolutional layers for activity prediction on a 1D HAR dataset. The 1D
convolution layer creates a convolution kernel that is convolved with the layer input
over a single spatial or temporal dimension. It then further goes to ensemble the three
individual models together by taking their averages .This, ensemble learning as a
multiple classifier system , improves the model performance and produces results
better than those of individual models. We then further on create other possible
ensembles of two models, i.e. of first and second, second and third, and, first and third
models. Ensemble learning as a whole has shown an improvement in the performance
of the model.
ADVANTAGES OF PROPOSED SYSTEM:
○ We developed three different CNN based models, using which, a series
of ensemble learning models were also created. Ensemble learning is a
paradigm by which multiple models or learners are trained to solve the
same problem.
○ The advantage of this paradigm lies in its ability to generalise. It has the
ability to boost the learning effect of learners that are weaker, leading to
an improved performance output. The following subsections describe
the overview and characteristics of the models.
➢ Algorithm: ensemble learning, deep learning, convolution neural networks
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:
HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:
❖ System : Intel Core i3.
➢ Hard Disk : 1TB.
➢ Monitor : 15’’ LED
➢ Input Devices : Keyboard, Mouse
➢ Ram : 8GB.

SOFTWARE REQUIREMENTS:

➢ Operating system : Windows 10.

➢ Coding Language : Python
➢ Tool : PyCharm, Visual Studio Code
➢ Database : SQLite
 SYSTEM DESIGN

SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE:

DATA FLOW DIAGRAM

1. The DFD is also called a bubble chart. It is a simple graphical formalism

that can be used to represent a system in terms of input data to the system,
various processing carried out on this data, and the output data is generated by
this system.

2. The data flow diagram (DFD) is one of the most important modelling
tools. It is used to model the system components. These components
are the system process, the data used by the process, an external entity
that interacts with the system and the information flows in the system.
3. DFD shows how the information moves through the system and how it
is modified by a series of transformations. It is a graphical technique
that depicts information flow and the transformations that are applied
as data moves from input to output.
 4. DFD is also known as bubble chart. A DFD may be used to represent a
system at any level of abstraction. DFD may be partitioned into levels that
represent increasing information flow and functional detail.

UML DIAGRAMS

UML stands for Unified Modeling Language. UML is a standardised

general-purpose modelling language in the field of object-oriented software
engineering. The standard is managed, and was created by, the Object Management
Group.
The goal is for UML to become a common language for creating models of
object oriented computer software. In its current form UML comprises two major
components: a Meta-model and a notation. In the future, some form of method or
process may also be added to; or associated with, UML.
The Unified Modeling Language is a standard language for specifying, Visualization,
Constructing and documenting the artefacts of software systems, as well as for
business modelling and other non-software systems.
The UML represents a collection of best engineering practices that have proven
successful in the modelling of large and complex systems.
The UML is a very important part of developing objects oriented software and
the software development process. The UML uses mostly graphical notations to
express the design of software projects.

GOALS:
The Primary goals in the design of the UML are as follows:
1. Provide users a ready-to-use, expressive visual modelling Language so that they
can develop and exchange meaningful models.
2. Provide extendibility and specialisation mechanisms to extend the core concepts.
3. Be independent of particular programming languages and development processes.
4. Provide a formal basis for understanding the modelling language.
5. Encourage the growth of the OO tools market.
6. Support higher level development concepts such as collaborations, frameworks,
patterns and components.
7. Integrate best practices
USE CASE DIAGRAM:

A use case diagram in the Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a type

of behavioural diagram defined by and created from a Use-case analysis. Its
purpose is to present a graphical overview of the functionality provided by a
system in terms of actors, their goals (represented as use cases), and any
dependencies between those use cases. The main purpose of a use case diagram
is to show what system functions are performed for which actor. Roles of the
actors in the system can be depicted.
CLASS DIAGRAM:

In software engineering, a class diagram in the Unified Modeling Language

(UML) is a type of static structure diagram that describes the structure of a
system by showing the system's classes, their attributes, operations (or
methods), and the relationships among the classes. It explains which class
contains information.

SEQUENCE DIAGRAM:

A sequence diagram in Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a kind of

interaction diagram that shows how processes operate with one another and in
what order. It is a construct of a Message Sequence Chart. Sequence diagrams
are sometimes called event diagrams, event scenarios, and timing diagrams.
ACTIVITY DIAGRAM:

Activity diagrams are graphical representations of workflows of stepwise

activities and actions with support for choice, iteration and concurrency. In the
Unified Modeling Language, activity diagrams can be used to describe the
business and operational step-by-step workflows of components in a system. An
activity diagram shows the overall flow of control.
 LITERATURE SURVEY

1) “Feature learning for ¨ activity recognition in ubiquitous computing

Authors: T. Plotz, N. Y. Hammerla, and P. L. Olivier

Feature extraction for activity recognition in context-aware ubiquitous computing

applications is usually a heuristic process, informed by underlying domain knowledge.
Relying on such explicit knowledge is problematic when aiming to generalize across
different application domains. We investigate the potential of recent machine learning
methods for discovering universal features for context-aware applications of activity
recognition. We also describe an alternative data representation based on the empirical
cumulative distribution function of the raw data, which effectively abstracts from
absolute values. Experiments on accelerometer data from four publicly available
activity recognition datasets demonstrate the significant potential of our approach to
address both contemporary activity recognition tasks and next generation problems
such as skill assessment and the detection of novel activities.

2. “LSTM networks for mobile human activity recognition,”

Authors: Y. Chen, K. Zhong, J. Zhang, Q. Sun, and X. Zhao,

A lot of real-life mobile sensing applications are becoming available. These

applications use mobile sensors embedded in smart phones to recognize human
activities in order to get a better understanding of human behavior. In this paper, we
propose a LSTM-based feature extraction approach to recognize human activities
using tri-axial accelerometers data. The experimental results on the (WISDM) Lab
public datasets indicate that our LSTM-based approach is practical and achieves
92.1% accuracy.
3 Deep convolutional neural networks on multichannel time series for
human activity recognition

AUTHORS: J. Yang, M. N. Nguyen, P. P. San, X. L. Li, and S.

Krishnaswamy

This paper focuses on human activity recognition (HAR) problem, in which inputs are
multichannel time series signals acquired from a set of body-worn inertial sensors and
outputs are predefined human activities. In this problem, extracting effective features
for identifying activities is a critical but challenging task. Most existing work relies on
heuristic hand-crafted feature design and shallow feature learning architectures, which
cannot find those distinguishing features to accurately classify different activities. In
this paper, we propose a systematic feature learning method for HAR problem. This
method adopts a deep convolutional neural networks (CNN) to automate feature
learning from the raw inputs in a systematic way. Through the deep architecture, the
learned features are deemed as the higher level abstract representation of low level
raw time series signals. By leveraging the labelled information via supervised
learning, the learned features are endowed with more discrimi-native power. Unified
in one model, feature learning and classification are mutually enhanced. All these
unique advantages of the CNN make it out-perform other HAR algorithms, as verified
in the experiments on the Opportunity Activity Recognition Challenge and other
benchmark datasets.

4. “CNN based approach for activity recognition using a wrist-worn

accelerometer,”

AUTHORS: M. Panwar, S. R. Dyuthi, K. C. Prakash, D. Biswas, A.

Acharyya, K. Maharatna, A. Gautam, and G. R. Naik
In recent years, significant advancements have taken place in human activity
recognition using various machine learning approaches. However, feature engineering
have dominated conventional methods involving the difficult process of optimal
feature selection.This problem has been mitigated by using a novel methodology
based on deep learning framework which automatically extracts the useful features
and reduces the computational cost. As a proof of concept, we have attempted to
design a generalised model for recognition of three fundamental movements of the
human forearm performed in daily life where data is collected from four different
subjects using a single wrist worn accelerometer sensor. The validation of the
proposed model is done with different pre-processing and noisy data condition which
is evaluated using three possible methods. The results show that our proposed
methodology achieves an average recognition rate of 99.8% as opposed to
conventional methods based on K-means clustering, linear discriminant analysis and
support vector machine.

5. Human activity recognition using LSTM-RNN deep neural network

architecture

AUTHORS: S. W. Pienaar and R. Malekian

Using raw sensor data to model and train networks for Human Activity Recognition
can be used in many different applications, from fitness tracking to safety monitoring
applications. These models can be easily extended to be trained with different data
sources for increased accuracies or an extension of classifications for different
prediction classes.This paper goes into the discussion on the available dataset
provided by WISDM and the unique features of each class for the different axes.
Furthermore, the design of a Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) architecture model is
outlined for the application of human activity recognition. An accuracy of above 94%
and a loss of less than 30% has been reached in the first 500 epochs of training.
 CONCLUSION

We presented three CNN based models as well as their ensembles for

WISDM dataset of HAR.It was found that the performance of the ensemble
model is better than that of individual models.One of the ensemble model
performed better than the methods in the literature. In the dataset we used, we
see a class imbalance such that we have 38% samples for walking class but
hardly 5% for sitting and standing. In future, the results might be improved even
more, if we can remove the class imbalance from dataset. Moreover, currently
an ensemble of average of the three models is created but for further
exploration, a future direction can be performing weighted ensemble learning
such that the best performing model has the most effect in the ensemble.