Samuli Hemminki
ABSTRACT
We present novel accelerometer-based techniques for accurate and fine-grained detection of transportation modes on smartphones. The primary contributions of our work are an improved algorithm for estimating the gravity component of accelerometer measurements, a novel set of accelerometer features that are able to capture key characteristics of vehicular movement patterns, and a hierarchical decomposition of the detection task. We evaluate our approach using over 150 hours of transportation data, which has been collected from 4 different countries and 16 individuals. Results of the evaluation demonstrate that our approach is able to improve transportation mode detection by over 20% compared to current accelerometer-based systems, while at the same time improving generalization and robustness of the detection. The main performance improvements are obtained for motorised transportation modalities, which currently represent the main challenge for smartphone-based transportation mode detection.
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