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A Study on Sitting Posture Recognition using Machine Learning

머신러닝을 이용한 앉은 자세 분류 연구

  • Ma, Sangyong (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Hong, Sangpyo (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Shim, Hyeon-min (Dept. of Digital Electronics, Dong Seoul University) ;
  • Kwon, Jang-Woo (Dept. of Computer Information Engineering, Inha University) ;
  • Lee, Sangmin (Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Inha University)
  • Received : 2016.06.03
  • Accepted : 2016.08.11
  • Published : 2016.09.01
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Abstract

According to recent studies, poor sitting posture of the spine has been shown to lead to a variety of spinal disorders. For this reason, it is important to measure the sitting posture. We proposed a strategy for classification of sitting posture using machine learning. We retrieved acceleration data from single tri-axial accelerometer attached on the back of the subject's neck in 5-types of sitting posture. 6 subjects without any spinal disorder were participated in this experiment. Acceleration data were transformed to the feature vectors of principle component analysis. Support vector machine (SVM) and K-means clustering were used to classify sitting posture with the transformed feature vectors. To evaluate performance, we calculated the correct rate for each classification strategy. Although the correct rate of SVM in sitting back arch was lower than that of K-means clustering by 2.0%, SVM's correct rate was higher by 1.3%, 5.2%, 16.6%, 7.1% in a normal posture, sitting front arch, sitting cross-legged, sitting leaning right, respectively. In conclusion, the overall correction rates were 94.5% and 88.84% in SVM and K-means clustering respectively, which means that SVM have more advantage than K-means method for classification of sitting posture.

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