
Saif Mahmud
- Research Assistant, CCDS
PhD Student
Cornell University
Research Interests
Machine Learning
Saif Mahmud, M Tonmoy, Kishor Kumar Bhaumik, AK Mahbubur Rahman, M Ashraful Amin, Mohammad Shoyaib, Muhammad Asif Hossain Khan, Amin Ahsan Ali
arXiv preprint arXiv:2003.09018
IOS Press, ISBN: 0922-6389

Human Activity Recognition from body-worn sensor data poses an inherent challenge in capturing spatial and temporal dependencies of time-series signals. In this regard, the existing recurrent or convolutional or their hybrid models for activity recognition struggle to capture spatio-temporal context from the feature space of sensor reading sequence. To address this complex problem, we propose a self-attention based neural network model that foregoes recurrent architectures and utilizes different types of attention mechanisms to generate higher dimensional feature representation used for classification. We performed extensive experiments on four popular publicly available HAR datasets: PAMAP2, Opportunity, Skoda and USC-HAD. Our model achieve significant performance improvement over recent state-of-the-art models in both benchmark test subjects and Leave-one-subject-out evaluation. We also observe that the sensor attention maps produced by our model is able capture the importance of the modality and placement of the sensors in predicting the different activity classes.

PhD Student
Cornell University
Machine Learning

PhD student
University of California, Riverside
Machine Learning

Professor
+1 more affiliationDepartment of Information Sciences and Technology
George Mason University, USA
Machine Learning, Cognitive & Vision Science, Cybernetics, Surveillance & Security, ICT in Education, Health, & Agriculture, Human-Computer Interaction, Internet of Things, Robotics

Professor
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Independent University, Bangladesh
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning