Chest-Mounted Inertial Measurement Unit for Pedestrian Motion Classification Using Continuous Hidden Markov Model

This paper presents a method for pedestrian motionclassification based on MEMS inertial measurement unit (IMU)mounted on the chest. The choice of mounting the IMU on thechest provides the potential application of the current study incamera-aided inertial navigation for positioning and personalassistance. In the present work, five categories of the pedestrianmotion including standing, walking, running, going upstairs,and going down the stairs are considered in the classificationprocedure. As the classification method, the continuous hiddenMarkov model (HMM) is used in which the output densityfunctions are assumed to be Gaussian mixture models (GMMs).The correct recognition rates based on the experimental resultsare about 95%.© 2012 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.QC 20120823