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Record W4413862749 · doi:10.1007/s44163-025-00503-6

A two-phase hybrid clustering framework exploring transitional activities in HAR

2025· article· en· W4413862749 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueDiscover Artificial Intelligence · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicContext-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
FundersNatural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
KeywordsCluster analysisComputer scienceArtificial intelligenceAutoencoderPattern recognition (psychology)Unsupervised learningFeature extractionConvolutional neural networkLeverage (statistics)Hidden Markov modelMachine learningData miningDeep learning

Abstract

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Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using data streams from wearable sensors is challenging due to high data dimensionality, noise, and the lack of labeled data in unsupervised settings. Our prior work proved that traditional clustering models, which achieve state-of-the-art performance on simulated datasets, perform poorly on time-series numeric sensor data. This paper explores different autoencoder (AE) architectures to extract latent features with reduced dimensionality from streaming HAR datasets, which is then clustered using a clustering model to identify different activity patterns. Since the vanilla AE has shortcomings in learning distinguishing data patterns from spatio temporal time-series sensor data, we leverage the vanilla AE with convolutional, long-short term memory (LSTM), and a combination of convolutional and LSTM layers in multiple design phases. We apply supervised learning to train a superior spatio-temporal feature extraction AE model. Using the data features extracted by the trained AE, we train a clustering model with unsupervised learning approach. Our end-to-end integrated hybrid convolutional AE+LSTM feature extractor and K-Means clustering model achieves state-of-the-art clustering accuracy of up to 0.99 in terms of Normalized Mutual Information (NMI) and Adjusted Rand Index (ARI) scores for MobiAct and UCI HAR datasets, improving clustering performance by over 50% compared to previous methods. Further improvements are achieved through rigorous experimentation and advanced data preprocessing methods. We also present a visualization of the clusters, which explains the transitional activity patterns in the overlapping parts of the clusters.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Other design · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.806
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.002
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.103
GPT teacher head0.354
Teacher spread0.251 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it