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. 2017 Feb 10;17(2):341. doi: 10.3390/s17020341

Table 5.

State of the art of human activity classification systems.

Sensors Placement Features Classifiers Participants Activities Accuracy (%) Reference
Accelerometer Upper arm, lower arm, hip, thigh, foot Time-domain; frequency-domain. KNN; Decision tree; NB. 20 6 52–84 Bao. et al. [74]
Gyroscope Shank Frequency-domain Other 20 1 97 Coley et al. [61]
Accelerometer; gyroscope. Wrist; lower leg; foot; neck; hip. Time-domain; frequency-domain. Decision tree; KNN; NB. 2 20 NA 1 Heinz et al. [13]
Accelerometer Wrist; hip; necklace Time-domain C4.5 2 6 6 About 75 Muurer et al. [83]
Accelerometer Lower back Time-domain; frequency-domain. Decision tree 20 20 93 Bonomi et al. [72]
Accelerometer; gyroscope. Chest, thigh Time-domain User-defined 1 4 91 Li et al. [63]
Accelerometer Wrist; lower arm; knee; ankle. Time-domain; frequency-domain. NB, GMM, SVM, NV, C4.5 20 20 92.2–98.5 Mannini et al. [58]
Accelerometer Thigh Time-domain; frequency-domain. C4.5, MLP 3, LR 4 29 6 78.1–95.7 Kwapisz et al. [75]
Accelerometer; gyroscope Arm, thigh. Time-domain; frequency-domain. KNN; C4.5; NB, etc. 16 13 63.2–90.2 Wu et al. [60]
Accelerometer; gyroscope Lower arm Time-domain RBM 5 12 NA 72.1 Bhattacharya et al. [92]
Accelerometer; gyroscope Wrist Time-domain; frequency-domain. HF-SVM 6 30 6 89 Anguita et al. [93]
Accelerometer Lower back Time-domain Decision tree 24 4 96.61 Khan et al. [94]
Accelerometer; gyroscope; barometric pressure sensors Ankle; wrist; chest Time-domain; frequency-domain KNN 6 16 93–95 Moncada-Torres et al. [68]
Accelerometer Wrist Time-domain; frequency-domain NB; SVM; Decision tree; KNN 2 8 57–64 Ravi et al. [86]
Accelerometer Chest; upper arm; wrist; hip; thigh; ankle; ear. Time-domain; frequency-domain KNN; Bayesian 11 15 NA Atallah et al. [85]
Accelerometer. Thigh Time-domain Shapelet approach; SVM; NB; KNN; etc. 4 8 72–77 Liu et al. [57]
Accelerometer; gyroscope Wrist Time-domain ANN; SVM; NB; C4.5 30 6 76.63–95.75 Ronao et al. [76]
Accelerometer; gyroscope. Thigh Time-domain RF; SVM; NB. NA 4 77–99 Bedogni et al. [95]
Accelerometer; Gyroscope. Chest, thigh, ankle Time-domain; frequency-domain. Decision tree; KNN; SVM; HMM, etc. 6 12 73–98 Attal et al. [56]
Accelerometer Wrist Time-domain; NB; Decision tree; SVM; C4.5; KNN 10 6 63.09–99.56 Morillo et al. [96]
Accelerometer Wrist Time-domain; frequency-domain. NN; KNN. 13 6 79.2–90.4 Wang et al. [87]
Accelerometer Hip Time-domain; frequency-domain. KNN; SVM. 5 9 70–75.68 Wang et al. [97]

1 NA: Not Available; 2 C4.5: Decision trees; 3 MLP: Multilayer perception; 4 LR: Logistic Regression; 5 RBM: Restricted Boltzmann Machine; 6 HF-SVM: Hardware-Friendly SVM.