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A Non-Supervised Learning Framework of Human Behavior Patterns Based on Sequential Actions
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ISSN: 1041-4347
Sang Wan Lee, IBM-KAIST Bio-computing Research Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Daejeon
Yong Soo Kim, Daejeon University, Daejeon
Zeungnam Bien, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan
In designing autonomous service systems such as assistive robots for the aged and the disabled, discovery and prediction of human actions are important and often crucial. Patterns of human behavior, however, involve ambiguity, uncertainty, complexity, and inconsistency caused by physical, logical, and emotional factors, and thus their modeling and recognition are known to be difficult. In this paper, a non-supervised learning framework of human behavior patterns is suggested in consideration of human behavioral characteristics. Our approach consists of two steps. In the first step, a meaningful structure of data is discovered by using Agglomerative Iterative Bayesian Fuzzy Clustering (AIBFC) with a newlyproposed cluster validity index. In the second step, the sequence of actions is learned on the basis of the structure discovered in the first step and by utilizing the proposed Fuzzy-state Q-learning (FSQL) process. These two learning steps are incorporated in an amalgamated framework, AIBFC-FSQL, which is capable of learning human behavior patterns in a non-supervised manner and predicting subsequent human actions. Through a number of simulations with typical benchmark datasets, we show that the proposed learning method outperforms several well-known methods. We further conduct experiments with two challenging real-world databases to demonstrate its usefulness from a practical perspective.
Index Terms:
Fuzzy Clustering, Knowledge Acquisition, Learning, Human Behavior
Citation:
Sang Wan Lee, Yong Soo Kim, Zeungnam Bien, "A Non-Supervised Learning Framework of Human Behavior Patterns Based on Sequential Actions," IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 01 May. 2009. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society, <http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/TKDE.2009.123>
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