User Activities Outliers Detection; Integration of Statistical and Computational Intelligence Techniques

Sawsan Mahmoud, Ahmad Lotfi, Caroline Langensiepen
2014 Computational intelligence  
In this paper, a hybrid technique for user activities outliers detection is introduced. The hybrid technique consists of a two-stage integration of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and Fuzzy Rule-Based Systems (FRBS). In the first stage, the Hamming distance is used to measure the differences between different activities. PCA is then applied to the distance measures to find two indices of Hotelling's T 2 and Squared Prediction Error. In the second stage of the process, the calculated indices
more » ... re provided as inputs to the FRBSs to model them heuristically. The model is used to identify the outliers and classify them. The proposed system is tested in real home environments, equipped with appropriate sensory devices, to identify outliers in the activities of daily living of the user. Three case studies are reported to demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed system. The proposed system successfully identifies the outliers in activities distinguishing between the normal and abnormal behavioural patterns.
doi:10.1111/coin.12045 fatcat:5itxo6cfcfbrljolhcokfzk2de