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Chapter 10
Neuza Nunes
PLUX – Wireless Biosignals S.A., Portugal
Diliana Rebelo
FCT-UNL, Portugal
Rodolfo Abreu
FCT-UNL, Portugal
Hugo Gamboa
FCT-UNL, Portugal
Clustering Algorithm for
Human Behavior Recognition
Based on Biosignal Analysis
ABSTRACT
Time series unsupervised clustering is accurate in various domains, and there is an increased interest
in time series clustering algorithms for human behavior recognition. The authors have developed an
algorithm for biosignals clustering, which captures the general morphology of a signal’s cycles in one
mean wave. In this chapter, they further validate and consolidate it and make a quantitative compari-
son with a state-of-the-art algorithm that uses distances between data’s cepstral coefcients to cluster
the same biosignals. They are able to successfully replicate the cepstral coefcients algorithm, and the
comparison showed that the mean wave approach is more accurate for the type of signals analyzed,
having a 19% higher accuracy value. They authors also test the mean wave algorithm with biosignals
with three diferent activities in it, and achieve an accuracy of 96.9%. Finally, they perform a noise im-
munity test with a synthetic signal and notice that the algorithm remains stable for signal-to-noise ratios
higher than 2, only decreasing its accuracy with noise of amplitude equal to the signal. The necessary
validation tests performed in this study confrmed the high accuracy level of the developed clustering
algorithm for biosignals that express human behavior.
Ana Fred
IST-UTL, Portugal & Instituto de Telecomunicações, Portugal
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3682-8.ch010