Presentation 2020-03-04
Classification of caretaker's trajectory: A time-series classifier approach
Yui Ichikawa, Daisuke Ichimura, Rie Asada, Tadashi Yamazaki,
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Abstract(in English) Along with the aging population, Japanese caretaking industry is facing a severe labor shortage. Utilizing data could improve the efficiency of caretakers’ daily work and thus be one of the solutions for this problem. In this paper, we analyzed caretakers’ trajectory data, aiming to reduce recording times and human error, and tried estimating the caretakers’ actions. We applied two models, a model using conventional Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) and Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), especially Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), which recently have gathered attention due to their high performance regarding sequence prediction tasks. Our human trajectory classifying task, focusing on the two most important cares, feeding and excretion care, revealed that LSTM prevailed over HMM by achieving 91.6% estimating correctly, while the model using HMMs estimated 74.4% correctly.
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Keyword(in English) Elderly care / Human trajectory / LSTM / HMM / Classification / Time series analysis / RNN
Paper # NC2019-78
Date of Issue 2020-02-26 (NC)

Conference Information
Committee NC / MBE
Conference Date 2020/3/4(3days)
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Place (in English) University of Electro Communications
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Topics (in English) Neuro Computing, Medical Engineering, etc.
Chair Hayaru Shouno(UEC) / Taishin Nomura(Osaka Univ.)
Vice Chair Kazuyuki Samejima(Tamagawa Univ) / Takashi Watanabe(Tohoku Univ.)
Secretary Kazuyuki Samejima(NAIST) / Takashi Watanabe(NTT)
Assistant Takashi Shinozaki(NICT) / Ken Takiyama(TUAT) / Yasuyuki Suzuki(Osaka Univ.) / Akihiro Karashima(Tohoku Inst. of Tech.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Neurocomputing / Technical Committee on ME and Bio Cybernetics
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Classification of caretaker's trajectory: A time-series classifier approach
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Elderly care
Keyword(2) Human trajectory
Keyword(3) LSTM
Keyword(4) HMM
Keyword(5) Classification
Keyword(6) Time series analysis
Keyword(7) RNN
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1st Author's Name Yui Ichikawa
1st Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
2nd Author's Name Daisuke Ichimura
2nd Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications/Oouchi Hospital(UEC/Oouchi Hosp.)
3rd Author's Name Rie Asada
3rd Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
4th Author's Name Tadashi Yamazaki
4th Author's Affiliation The University of Electro-Communications(UEC)
Date 2020-03-04
Paper # NC2019-78
Volume (vol) vol.119
Number (no) NC-453
Page pp.pp.15-20(NC),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2020-02-26 (NC)