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Table 1 Summary of the previous studies which used feature extraction and coordinate transformation methods

From: The effectiveness of simple heuristic features in sensor orientation and placement problems in human activity recognition using a single smartphone accelerometer

Method

Sensor types

Sensor positions

Classifier

References

Feature extraction

Accelerometer and gyroscope

Coat pocket, hand, trouser pocket and bag

SVM

[24]

Feature extraction

Accelerometer and gyroscope

Right upper arm, right hand, right jacket pocket, right trousers pocket and waist

KNN, RF, SVM

[25]

Feature extraction

Accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer

Multiple positions from 5 data sets

Bayesian decision making (BDM), KNN, SVM, Artificial Neural Network (ANN)

[26]

Coordination transformation

Accelerometer and gyroscope

Left upper arm, the shirt pocket, the trousers front pocket, and the behind trouser pocket

Motif-based classification system

[31]

Coordination transformation and feature extraction

Accelerometer

Pants’ pocket, shirt’s pocket and backpack

Online SVM

[32]

Coordination transformation and feature extraction

Accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetic field

Trouser pockets

KNN

[33]