CS 528, Fall Semester 2017 Project 4,
Classifying Human Activity (10/100 of course grade)
Due date: Thursday, November 9, (by class time)!!

Overview

The aim of this project is to get you acquainted with machine learning classification of Human Activity using MATLAB. You should complete this project in your groups of 3 or 4 students. The GROUP will submit 1 project with all team members listed. You may discuss the projects with other classmates or on InstructAssist but each group will submit their own code for the project.

Project Preparation

Step 1: Watch the Machine Learning Made Easy Video from MathWorks: This video provides an overview of how to do classification using the MATLAB machine learner app (a graphical user interface). MATLAB is installed on the zoolab machines. Click [ Here ] to go to the video. I created the following slides, which summarize the webinar. To access these slides, click [ Here ]

Step 2: Download the code from the Webinar: MathWorks provided the code from the MATLAB webinar. The following zip file is the same zip file provided by MathWorks. Download it [ Here ]

Step 3: Run the Webinar Code and study it: Try to understand the code and all the steps. The code contains 2 examples:

• CarFinder: Detect which car type is in a given picture
• HumanActivity: Classification of human activity (Walking, Climbing stairs, Sitting, Standing, Laying down) from accelerometer and gyroscope data

Project Requirements

Step 4: Implement new features: 3 features (Mean, Principal Component Analysis and Standard Deviation) are already implemented. You are required to implement additional features from the Activity Recognition Paper Activity Recognition using Cell Phone Accelerometers by Jennifer R. Kwapisz et al, which we previously studied. You can find the paper [ Here ] Specifically, implement the following features in separate MATLAB files:

• Average Absolute Difference
• Average Resultant Acceleration
• Time Between Peaks
• Binned Distribution

Step 5: Answer the following questions: Create a README file and answer the following questions. Classify the activity using all classifier types that are available in the classification learner app. What is the 1) most accurate type of classifier and 2) Percentage accuracy when you use the following features:

1. only the 3 original features (mean, PCA and Standard deviation)?
2. 3 original features (mean, PCA, Standard deviation) and also Average Absolute Difference (i.e. 4 features in total)?
3. 3 original features (mean, PCA, Standard deviation) and also Average Absolute Difference and Average Resultant Acceleration (i.e. 5 features in total)?
4. 3 original features (mean, PCA, Standard deviation), and also Average Absolute Difference, Average Resultant Acceleration and Time Between Peaks (i.e. 6 features in total)?
5. 3 original features (mean, PCA, Standard deviation) and also Average Absolute Difference, Average Resultant Acceleration, Time Between Peaks and Binned Distribution (i.e. 7 features in total)?

Submitting Your Work