Fully Connected Generative Adversarial Network for Human Activity Recognition

Conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (CGAN) have shown great promise in generating synthetic data for sensor-based activity recognition. However, one key issue concerning existing CGAN is the design of the network architecture that affects sample quality. This study proposes an effective CGAN architecture that synthesizes higher quality samples than state-of-the-art CGAN architectures. This is achieved by combining convolutional layers with multiple fully connected networks in the generator’s input and discriminator’s output of the CGAN. We show the effectiveness of the proposed approach using elderly data for sensor-based activity recognition. Visual evaluation, similarity measure, and usability evaluation are used to assess the quality of generated samples by the proposed approach and validate its performance in activity recognition. In comparison to the state-of-the-art CGAN, the visual evaluation and similarity measure demonstrate that the proposed models’ synthetic data more accurately represents actual data and creates more variations in each synthetic data than the state-of-the-art approach respectively. The experimental stages of the usability evaluation, on the other hand, show a performance gain of 2.5%, 2.5%, 3.1%, and 4.4% over the state-of-the-art CGAN when using synthetic samples by the proposed architecture.