本研究室に所属する博士後期課程3年の武仲 紘輝さんの研究が学術論文として、IEEE Sensors Latters に採録されました。センサデータを用いた行動認識における従来の教師なし事前訓練は複数の段階を踏み、複雑化していました。この論文では、事前訓練がインスタンス識別といった単純な教師なし学習目標によって単純化できることを実験的に示し、行動認識における事前訓練コストを大幅に削減しました。

Takenaka, K., Sakai, S., & Hasegawa, T., "IDMatchHAR: Semi-supervised Learning for Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition using Pre-training.", IEEE Sensors Letters, Vol. 9, No. 4, April 2025.  paper

Abstract

In sensor-based human activity recognition (HAR), the annotation cost for sensor data is higher compared to data, such as images. One can use semisupervised learning (semi-SL) to reduce annotation costs. This method lever-ages unlabeled datasets by assigning pseudolabels. How- ever, these methods have the issue of confirmation bias, where performance degrades due to incorrect pseudolabels. Some approaches have attempted to solve this problem by performing multistage pretraining with labeled and unlabeled data, but these methods require significant computational resources. We propose a framework called IDMatchHAR, which performs semi-SL with a single-stage pretraining process on small-scale datasets. We use instance discrimination (ID) during pretraining to learn robust feature representations applied to the subsequent semi-SL task. We verify the effectiveness of the proposed framework using various convolutional neural networks (CNNs), such as VGG and residual network (ResNet), as well as Transformers, on HASC, WISDM, and Pamap2. Our proposed framework significantly reduces the computational cost of pretraining while demonstrating performance comparable to or exceeding that of existing semi-SL methods.