A Lightweight Human Action Classification Method for Green IoT Sport Applications

This paper proposes a lightweight human action classification method for Green Internet of Things (IoT) sport applications. This method classifies the human motion data collected by wearables or other IoT devices with energy-efficient techniques, by enabling a small number of sample training and incremental classification to achieve the purpose of energy-efficient. To lessen the complexity of the model and reduce the number of samples required for parameter estimation, we propose a shared Hidden Conditional Random Field (sHCRF) model. The sHCRF model adds a shared-classification layer structure to reduce the parameter computation. In the experiments, the classification accuracy of the sHCRF model is above 95%. This paper introduces an incremental learning method based on knowledge distillation. The new model suppresses the forgetting of existing classification knowledge while fitting new data to learn new classification knowledge. In the incremental scenarios, the classification accuracy of the sHCRF model is above 70%. The experimental results show that this method can lightly implement convenient and fast automatic classification of action acquisition.