Activity Recognition for Dogs Using Off-the-Shelf Accelerometer

Tatsuya Kiyohara, Ryohei Orihara, Yuichi Sei, Yasuyuki Tahara, Akihiko Ohsuga

2015

Abstract

Dogs are one of the most popular pets in the world, and more than 10 million dogs are bred annually in Japan now (JPFA, 2013). Recently, primitive commercial services have been started that record dogs’ activities and report them to their owners. Although it is expected that an owner would like to know the dog’s activity in greater detail, a method proposed in a previous study has failed to recognize some of the key actions. The demand for their identification is highlighted in responses to our questionnaire. In this paper, we show a method to recognize the actions of the dog by attaching only one off-the-shelf acceleration sensor to the neck of the dog. We apply DTW-D which is the state-of-the-art time series data search technique for activity recognition. Application of DTW-D to activity recognition of an animal is unprecedented according to our knowledge, and thus is the main contribution of this study. As a result, we were able to recognize ten different activities with 65.8% classification F-measure.

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in Harvard Style

Kiyohara T., Orihara R., Sei Y., Tahara Y. and Ohsuga A. (2015). Activity Recognition for Dogs Using Off-the-Shelf Accelerometer . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-074-1, pages 100-110. DOI: 10.5220/0005212001000110


in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart15,
author={Tatsuya Kiyohara and Ryohei Orihara and Yuichi Sei and Yasuyuki Tahara and Akihiko Ohsuga},
title={Activity Recognition for Dogs Using Off-the-Shelf Accelerometer},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,},
year={2015},
pages={100-110},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005212001000110},
isbn={978-989-758-074-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 2: ICAART,
TI - Activity Recognition for Dogs Using Off-the-Shelf Accelerometer
SN - 978-989-758-074-1
AU - Kiyohara T.
AU - Orihara R.
AU - Sei Y.
AU - Tahara Y.
AU - Ohsuga A.
PY - 2015
SP - 100
EP - 110
DO - 10.5220/0005212001000110