Activity recognition based on semi-supervised learning

Activity recognition is a hot topic in context-aware computing. In activity recognition, machine learning techniques have been widely applied to learn the activity models from labeled activity samples. Since labeling samples requires human’s efforts, most existing research in activity recognition focus on refining learning techniques to utilize the costly labeled samples as effectively as possible. However, few of them consider using the costless unlabeled samples to boost learning performance. In this work, we propose a novel semi-supervised learning algorithm named En-Co-training to make use of the unlabeled samples. Our algorithm extends the co-training paradigm by using ensemble method. Experimental results show that En-Co-training is able to utilize the available unlabeled samples to enhance the performance of activity learning with a limited number of labeled samples