Sensor Data Simulation for Anomaly Detection of the Elderly Living Alone

With the increase of the number of elderly people living alone around the world, there is a growing demand for sensor-based detection of anomalous behaviors. Although smart homes with ambient sensors could be useful for detecting such anomalies, there is a problem of lack of sufficient real data for developing detection algorithms. For coping with this problem, several sensor data simulators have been proposed, but they have not been able to model appropriately the long-term transitions and correlations between anomalies that exist in reality. In this paper, therefore, we propose a novel sensor data simulator that can model these factors in generation of sensor data. Anomalies considered in this study were classified into three types of \textit{state anomalies}, \textit{activity anomalies}, and \textit{moving anomalies}. The simulator produces 10 years data in 100 min. including six anomalies, two for each type. Numerical evaluations show that this simulator is superior to the past simulators in the sense that it simulates well day-to-day variations of real data.

CEMENT: Incomplete Multi-View Weak-Label Learning with Long-Tailed Labels

A variety of modern applications exhibit multi-view multi-label learning, where each sample has multi-view features, and multiple labels are correlated via common views. In recent years, several methods have been proposed to cope with it and achieve much success, but still suffer from two key problems: 1) lack the ability to deal with the incomplete multi-view weak-label data, in which only a subset of features and labels are provided for each sample; 2) ignore the presence of noisy views and tail labels usually occurring in real-world problems. In this paper, we propose a novel method, named CEMENT, to overcome the limitations. For 1), CEMENT jointly embeds incomplete views and weak labels into distinct low-dimensional subspaces, and then correlates them via Hilbert-Schmidt Independence Criterion (HSIC). For 2), CEMEMT adaptively learns the weights of embeddings to capture noisy views, and explores an additional sparse component to model tail labels, making the low-rankness available in the multi-label setting. We develop an alternating algorithm to solve the proposed optimization problem. Experimental results on seven real-world datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed method.

MLC Toolbox: A MATLAB/OCTAVE Library for Multi-Label Classification

Multi-Label Classification toolbox is a MATLAB/OCTAVE library for Multi-Label Classification (MLC). There exists a few Java libraries for MLC, but no MATLAB/OCTAVE library that covers various methods. This toolbox offers an environment for evaluation, comparison and visualization of the MLC results. One attraction of this toolbox is that it enables us to try many combinations of feature space dimension reduction, sample clustering, label space dimension reduction and ensemble, etc.