Discovery of activity composites using topic models: An analysis of unsupervised methods
In this work we investigate unsupervised activity discovery approaches using three topic model(TM) approaches, based on Latent Dirichlet Allocation(LDA), n n -gram TM(NTM), and correlated TM(CTM). While LDA structures activity primitives, NTM adds primitive sequence information, and CTM exploits co-occurring topics. We use an activity composite/primitive abstraction and analyze three public datasets with different properties that affect the discovery, including primitive rate, activity composite specificity, primitive sequence similarity, and composite-instance ratio. We compare the activity composite discovery performance among the TM approaches and against a baseline using k k -means clustering. We provide guidelines for method and optimal TM parameter selection, depending on data properties and activity primitive noise. Results indicate that TMs can outperform k k -means clustering up to 17%, when composite specificity is low. LDA-based TMs showed higher robustness against noise compared to other TMs and k k -means.
topic modeling activity discovery activity routines daily routines hierarchical activity recognition