Texture of Activities: Exploiting Local Binary Patterns for Accelerometer Data Analysis

Recognition of activities through wearable sensors such as accelerometers is a recent challenge in pervasive and ubiquitous computing. The problem is often considered as a classification task where a set of descriptive features are extracted from input signal to feed a machine learning classifier. A major issue ignored so far in these studies is the incorporation of locally embedded features that could indeed be informative in describing the main activity performed by the individual being experimented. To close this gap, we offer here adapting Local Binary Pattern (LBP) approach, which is frequently used in identifying textures in images, in one dimensional space of accelerometer data. To this end, we exploit the histogram of LPB found in each axes of input accelerometer signal as a feature set to feed a k-Nearest Neighbor classifier. The experiments on a benchmark dataset have shown that the proposed method can outperform some previous methods.