• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.52 no.1
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• pp.162-172
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• 2015

In this paper, we propose an adaptive detection algorithm of footstep and a classification algorithm for activities of the detected footstep. The proposed algorithm can detect and classify whole movement as well as individual and irregular activities, since it does not use continuous footstep signals which are used by most previous research. For classifying movement, we use feature vectors obtained from frequency spectrum from FFT, CWT, AR model and image of AR spectrogram. With SVM classifier, we obtain classification accuracy of single footstep activities over 90% when feature vectors using AR spectrogram image are used.

• Journal of the Institute of Electronics and Information Engineers
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• v.50 no.7
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• pp.258-266
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• 2013

We propose adaptive detection algorithm to reduce a false alarm by considering the characteristics of the random noise on the detection system based on a seismic sensor. The proposed algorithm consists of the first step detection using kernel function and the second step detection using detection classes. Kernel function of the first step detection is obtained from the threshold of the Neyman-Pearon decision criterion using the probability density functions varied along the noise from the measured signal. The second step detector consists of 4 step detection class by calculating the occupancy time of the footstep using the first detected samples. In order to verify performance of the proposed algorithm, the detection of the footsteps using measured signal of targets (walking and running) are performed experimentally. The detection results are compared with a fixed threshold detector. The first step detection result has the high detection performance of 95% up to 10m area. Also, the false alarm probability is decreased from 40% to 20% when it is compared with the fixed threshold detector. By applying the detection class(second step detector), it is greatly reduced to less than 4%.