Public Dataset of Accelerometer Data for Human Motion Primitives Detection
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1. What is it?
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The Public Dataset of Accelerometer Data for Human Motion Primitives Detection is a public collection of labelled accelerometer data recordings to be used for the creation and validation of acceleration models of human motion primitives.

We believe that, in a similar fashion to computer vision public datasets, the adoption of common testbenches for human motion primitives detection algorithms will allow for a better comparison between different approaches and ultimately lead to the development of more accurate and reliable solutions.

Detailed documentation about the dataset is provided in the file MANUAL.TXT.

A description of the Human Motion Primitives detection system that we have designed to work with the provided dataset can be found at:
- [BRUNO13]
  Bruno, B., Mastrogiovanni, F., Sgorbissa, A., Vernazza, T., Zaccaria, R.:
  Analysis of human behavior recognition algorithms based on acceleration data.
  In: IEEE Int Conf on Robotics and Automation (ICRA),
  pp. 1602--1607 (2013)

- [BRUNO12]
  Bruno, B., Mastrogiovanni, F., Sgorbissa, A., Vernazza, T., Zaccaria, R.:
  Human motion modelling and recognition: A computational approach.
  In: IEEE Int Conf on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE),
  pp. 156--161 (2012)

2. Version
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Version: 1
Released on: 11/02/2014

3. Documentation
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Up-to-date documentation for this release is provided in the file MANUAL.TXT

4. Installation & usage
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This dataset does not require any installation.

The provided MATLAB scripts "displayTrial.m" and "displayModel.m" allow for visualization of the recorded accelerometer data. A description and example usage of the scripts can be accessed within MATLAB environment with the commands:
	help displayTrial
	help displayModel

The provided MATLAB scripts have been developed and tested with MATLAB R2008a.

5. Licensing
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This dataset is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY, including the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
The authors allow the users of the Public Dataset of Accelerometer Data for Human Motion Primitives Detection to use and modify it for their own research. Any commercial application, redistribution, etc... has to be arranged between users and authors individually.

For further license information, please contact the authors.

6. Authors contacts
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If you want to be informed about db updates and new code releases, obtain further information about the provided db, or contribute to its development please write to:
- Barbara Bruno
  Laboratorium, dept. DIBRIS
  Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy)
  [email protected]

- Fulvio Mastrogiovanni
  Laboratorium, dept. DIBRIS
  Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy)
  [email protected]

- Antonio Sgorbissa
  Laboratorium, dept. DIBRIS
  Università degli Studi di Genova (Italy)
  [email protected]