Radar Based Joint Human Activity and Agility Recognition via Multi Input Multi Task Learning

Radar-based recognition of human activities of daily living has been a focus of research for over a decade. Current techniques focus on generalized motion recognition of any person and rely on massive amounts of data to characterize generic human activity. However, human gait is actually a person-specific biometric, correlated with health and agility, which depends on a person's mobility ethogram. This paper proposes a multi-input multi-task deep learning framework for jointly learning a person's agility and activity. As a proof of concept, we consider three categories of agility represented by slow, fast and nominal motion articulations and show that joint consideration of agility and activity can lead to improved activity classification accuracy and estimation of agility. To the best of our knowledge, this work represents the first work considering personalized motion recognition and agility characterization using radar.