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Human Activity Recognition and Behaviour Analysis

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This chapter provides an overview on the background, basic concepts, existing approaches and methodologies, potential applications, opportunities and research trends and directions for computational behaviour analysis. It first introduces the background and context of this book, and the basic concepts and terms used in the discussion of activity recognition in the book. It then provides a high-level review on dominant approaches and methods that have been used for activity recognition in related research communities. Following this, it discusses potential application domains and particularly highlights the role and opportunities of activity recognition in ambient assisted living, which has recently been under vigorous investigation, and also serves as the main application scenario in our discussions throughout the book. Finally the chapter presents research trends and directions of this research field. This chapter is intended to provide necessary technical background and context for readers to help them best prepared for reading and understanding the book.

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    Liming Chen

  2. School of Computing, Ulster University, Belfast, UK

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Chen, L., Nugent, C.D. (2019). Introduction. In: Human Activity Recognition and Behaviour Analysis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19408-6_1

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