Source Domain Selection for Cross-House Human Activity Recognition with Ambient Sensors

Human activity recognition using ambient sensors has become particularly important due to social demands of applications in smart homes. To address the problem of labeling sensing data for every individual house, cross-house human activity recognition is proposed to use available labeled houses (source domains) to train recognition models for applying to unlabeled houses (target domains). In this paper, we propose a method of source domain selection for cross-house human activity recognition. We first improve the method for representing semantic relationships of sensors. To select the best similar source houses for a target house, we then propose a method for calculating similarity score between two houses. Using 19 houses of the CASAS dataset, we evaluate the recognition performance in target houses using models trained by several similar source houses, randomly selected houses, dissimilar source houses, and all source houses without selection. Experimental results illustrate that the average accuracy of models trained from the small number of the best similar houses achieve the best performance, and thus they confirm the effectiveness of our proposed method.