The present disclosure generally relates to identification systems, and more particularly to a person identification system that identifies a person based on collaborative information from multiple wearable sensors.
The currently exists many modalities of personal identification systems. Current technologies include use of biometrics, e.g., fingerprints: automated fingerprint identification systems, self-authenticating identification card with fingerprint identification. Additional biometric data for use in personal identification include facial recognition: facial recognition system for security access and identification; use of face recognition for identification.
However, it is the case that use of ID cards, fingerprints, are inconvenient and insecure. Moreover, existing facial recognition systems are error prone.
While a wearable sensor platform and mobile application exist for use in cognitive behavioral therapy (e.g. healthcare and sports) such system a wearable sensor platform is not customized for person identification/recognition.
Mobile devices, such as smart watches, are employed to collect and preprocess data from multiple types of wearable sensors provided on an individual. Accelerometer sensors of various body positions are used to collect activity information, which is processed to train machine learning model to classify personal activity modes, such as walking, running, and sleeping.
In one aspect, data from multiple muscle sensors are collected to extract muscle action features. The activity modes and muscle features are processed in a collaborative way to identify an individual person.
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a method for recognizing individuals. The method comprises: receiving at a hardware processor, a first sensor data associated with the individual processing, by the hardware processor, the first sensor data associated with the individual to determine an activity the individual is currently engaged in; receiving at a hardware processor, a second sensor data associated with the individual; processing, by the hardware processor, the second sensor data associated with the individual to determine a feature associated with a muscle of the individual used while engaged in the determined activity; and generating a model that correlates determined activities and corresponding muscle features of the individual user with an identity of the individual.
According to another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a system for recognizing individuals. The system comprises: one or more sensor devices attached to and associated with an individual, each sensor data providing sensor data; a processing unit configured to receive the sensor data and store the sensor data in an associated memory storage device; the processing unit further configured to: receive a first sensor data associated with the individual; process said first sensor data associated with the individual to determine an activity the individual is currently engaged in; receive a second sensor data associated with the individual; process said second sensor data associated with the individual to determine a feature associated with a muscle of said individual while engaged in the determined activity; and generate a model that correlates determined activities and corresponding muscle features of the individual user with an identity of said individual.
According to yet another aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a computer program product for performing operations. The computer program product includes a storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions run by the processing circuit for running a method. The method is the same as listed above.
As stated above, the present disclosure relates to identification systems, and more particularly to a person identification system that identifies a person based on collaborative information from multiple wearable sensors.
In the embodiment depicted, an individual or user 51 is shown having multiple “on body” sensors 52a, 12b, . . . , 52k that provide sensor data to a collection module that may preprocess the sensor data received. Such sensors may include but are not limited to: sensors attached to the body by any known means for sensing physiological and movement data for monitoring a user's physiological status: pressure sensors, temperature sensors, breath sensors, accelerometer(s), muscle sensor(s), hear rate sensor, EEG sensors, relaxation sensors (e.g., sensors for measuring depth, chest/stomach location and/or pace of breath) and other physiological measures such as include heart rate, respiratory rate, blood pressure, and muscle activity. For example, in non-limiting embodiments, muscle sensors such as an electrical based electromyography (EMG) sensor may be worn by individual. Data from such sensors may be used to positively identify the user or individual. For example, as shown in
In one embodiment, the sensors are configured to include or interface with a wireless communication capability to transmit the user's sensed sensor data 55 in real-time to a mobile phone or like data processing device 70 configured to receive the user's sensor data and equipped with a model configured to identify or perform real-time recognition of the user based on the received sensor data. In a further embodiment, the device 70 includes capability to further use the authorization based on the recognized user, as a basis to allow the user to access that device 70 or open/use an application running on the device 70. In a further embodiment, the device 70 functions as an access point and includes communications capability to further relay a signal 72 representing a positive identification or recognition of the user to a further remote device or system (not shown) to initiate any responsive action, e.g., open up an application, based on the determined identification.
In one embodiment, the access point 70 may be a smartphone or a smartwatch device equipped with communications receiver for receiving the sensed data in real-time and storing the received data in a local memory. An application running at the access point device, e.g., smartphone or smartwatch, accesses a learned recognition model running on the device and invokes the recognition model for automatically identifying/recognizing the user based on the real-time sensor data received.
The model has been prior trained by machine learning on multiple wearable sensors, e.g., including the accelerometer and muscle sensors, worn on the user. Based on the recognition, the smartphone or smartwatch device may generate signal 72 to take or initiate a responsive action at that device, e.g., open up a software application on the same or different smartphone or smartwatch device 70′; access a secure web-site or Internet location; control or switch on a remote device 74; unlock or open a door of a user's home/garage 76. Thus, the responsive action may be related to an activity the user is currently engaged in, e.g., enter a password to access an application, open a garage door from a remote device on a user's car, etc.
In one embodiment, the built identity recognition model may reside on and run in an operating device or system in which the user may subsequently be required to be identified in order to conduct an action, e.g., enter a password to open an application, at that device or system.
In a further embodiment, besides the use of a smartphone or smartwatch device 70 as an access point, there may alternately be employed a wearable electronic processor embedded in an article of clothing that can be worn or attached to a user (e.g., carried in a container, purse, ring, or wallet, or in some other object near the user) and serves to function as a centralized processing “hub” associated with the user or individual. This hub may be a configuration that receives information from the one or more sensors 52A, . . . , 52K and then sends information about and/or the sensor data to a remote computer or data storage device, optionally after performing a preprocessing of the data at the central hub. For example, a wireless signal 72 may be sent to another computing device (not shown), and/or can write the information into a memory that can later be downloaded to a computer, e.g., for user recognition model training/analysis.
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In one embodiment, the sensor data is provided to a computing system 10 such as shown in
In one embodiment, the user may be queried to enter, e.g., via a access point device interface, that user's profile information, e.g., the user identification and/or other user profile data, e.g., the user's gender (male/female), age, marital status and/or any other data point that might be used for training a system for user recognition/identification.
An initial determination is thus made at 110 as to whether there is enough sensor signal data received or available to accurately train the recognition model. If it is determined at 110, there is not enough training data to accurately train the model for use in identifying the user, the process returns to 105 to receive additional sensor data for use in training the recognition model. For example, sensed data for learning may include muscle sensor data from key user muscle systems, e.g., chest, legs, arms, heart and stomach.
The steps 105-110 iterate until it is determined that there is a sufficient amount of sensor data collected for training the model to detect a particular activity that is used to identify the user. Once at 110 there is enough data, at 120, the model is trained to recognize a user based on a user's sensed activity and/or muscle based features. In one embodiment, a neural network program implementing well-known algorithms known to skilled artisans, may be trained over time to estimate or approximate functions based on key features of the extracted sensor data that can be used for identifying the user. It is understood that the training of the neural network model may occur offline and that the model build may be continuously refined. Thus, from 120, the process returns to 105 as shown as new sensor data is received for that user engaging in an activity to be used to identify the user. In one embodiment, the model may be continually trained to recognize additional activities and corresponding muscle features and be refined as new/additional better sensors become available or are implemented.
Otherwise, at 215, if it is determined that detected activity mode/muscle features obtained from the real-time sensor data does identify the user to a degree of certainty, then the process continues to step 220,
If at 225, it is determined that the received data included new sensor data, e.g., then the process proceeds to 230 for updating the recognition neural network model based on the new activity mode or muscle feature. The model updating may occur immediately after user recognition or subsequently in an off-line process. If at 225, there is no new user activity sensor data or muscle features data, then the process proceeds back to 205,
As an example, types of activities that can be monitored by collecting sensor data includes but is not limited to: walking, running, sitting idle, sleeping, driving. For example, while engaged in such of these activities, a user may desire to perform a further action such as activate a cell phone, or automatically generate a password to open an application running on a smart watch or smart phone, or open up a door, unlock a security feature on a device and/or remotely control a device. For each of these further actions, a user authorization is required. Thus, using the trained model, the activity mode that user is engaged in, and the particular muscle features sensed while engaging in that activity are used to uniquely identify the person. The sensed data is a replacement for a biometric data such as a finger print, and the present system and method can be used in any application that may require identity recognition.
The computer system may be described in the general context of computer system executable instructions, such as program modules, being executed by a computer system. Generally, program modules may include routines, programs, objects, components, logic, data structures, and so on that perform particular tasks or implement particular abstract data types. The computer system may be practiced in distributed cloud computing environments where tasks are performed by remote processing devices that are linked through a communications network. In a distributed cloud computing environment, program modules may be located in both local and remote computer system storage media including memory storage devices.
The components of computer system may include, but are not limited to, one or more processors or processing units 12, a system memory 16, and a bus 14 that couples various system components including system memory 16 to processor 12. The processor 12 may include a module 10 that performs the model build and model use methods described herein. In one embodiment, a neural network framework module 10 having instructions employing the methods herein may be programmed into the integrated circuits of the processor 12, or loaded from memory 16, storage device 18, or network 24 or combinations thereof.
Bus 14 may represent one or more of any of several types of bus structures, including a memory bus or memory controller, a peripheral bus, an accelerated graphics port, and a processor or local bus using any of a variety of bus architectures. By way of example, and not limitation, such architectures include Industry Standard Architecture (ISA) bus, Micro Channel Architecture (MCA) bus, Enhanced ISA (EISA) bus, Video Electronics Standards Association (VESA) local bus, and Peripheral Component Interconnects (PCI) bus.
Computer system may include a variety of computer system readable media. Such media may be any available media that is accessible by computer system, and it may include both volatile and non-volatile media, removable and non-removable media.
System memory 16 can include computer system readable media in the form of volatile memory, such as random access memory (RAM) and/or cache memory or others. Computer system may further include other removable/non-removable, volatile/non-volatile computer system storage media. By way of example only, storage system 18 can be provided for reading from and writing to a non-removable, non-volatile magnetic media (e.g., a “hard drive”). Although not shown, a magnetic disk drive for reading from and writing to a removable, non-volatile magnetic disk (e.g., a “floppy disk”), and an optical disk drive for reading from or writing to a removable, non-volatile optical disk such as a CD-ROM, DVD-ROM or other optical media can be provided. In such instances, each can be connected to bus 14 by one or more data media interfaces.
Computer system may also communicate with one or more external devices 26 such as a keyboard, a pointing device, a display 28, etc.; one or more devices that enable a user to interact with computer system; and/or any devices (e.g., network card, modem, etc.) that enable computer system to communicate with one or more other computing devices. Such communication can occur via Input/Output (I/O) interfaces 20.
Still yet, computer system can communicate with one or more networks 24 such as a local area network (LAN), a general wide area network (WAN), and/or a public network (e.g., the Internet) via network adapter 22. As depicted, network adapter 22 communicates with the other components of computer system via bus 14. It should be understood that although not shown, other hardware and/or software components could be used in conjunction with computer system. Examples include, but are not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, and external disk drive arrays, RAID systems, tape drives, and data archival storage systems, etc.
The present invention may be a system, a method, and/or a computer program product at any possible technical detail level of integration. The computer program product may include a computer readable storage medium (or media) having computer readable program instructions thereon for causing a processor to carry out aspects of the present invention.
The computer readable storage medium can be a tangible device that can retain and store instructions for use by an instruction execution device. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but is not limited to, an electronic storage device, a magnetic storage device, an optical storage device, an electromagnetic storage device, a semiconductor storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. A non-exhaustive list of more specific examples of the computer readable storage medium includes the following: a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), a static random access memory (SRAM), a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), a digital versatile disk (DVD), a memory stick, a floppy disk, a mechanically encoded device such as punch-cards or raised structures in a groove having instructions recorded thereon, and any suitable combination of the foregoing. A computer readable storage medium, as used herein, is not to be construed as being transitory signals per se, such as radio waves or other freely propagating electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic waves propagating through a waveguide or other transmission media (e.g., light pulses passing through a fiber-optic cable), or electrical signals transmitted through a wire.
Computer readable program instructions described herein can be downloaded to respective computing/processing devices from a computer readable storage medium or to an external computer or external storage device via a network, for example, the Internet, a local area network, a wide area network and/or a wireless network. The network may comprise copper transmission cables, optical transmission fibers, wireless transmission, routers, firewalls, switches, gateway computers and/or edge servers. A network adapter card or network interface in each computing/processing device receives computer readable program instructions from the network and forwards the computer readable program instructions for storage in a computer readable storage medium within the respective computing/processing device.
Computer readable program instructions for carrying out operations of the present invention may be assembler instructions, instruction-set-architecture (ISA) instructions, machine instructions, machine dependent instructions, microcode, firmware instructions, state-setting data, configuration data for integrated circuitry, or either source code or object code written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Smalltalk, C++, or the like, and procedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming language or similar programming languages. The computer readable program instructions may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet Service Provider). In some embodiments, electronic circuitry including, for example, programmable logic circuitry, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), or programmable logic arrays (PLA) may execute the computer readable program instructions by utilizing state information of the computer readable program instructions to personalize the electronic circuitry, in order to perform aspects of the present invention.
Aspects of the present invention are described herein with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer readable program instructions.
These computer readable program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer readable program instructions may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium that can direct a computer, a programmable data processing apparatus, and/or other devices to function in a particular manner, such that the computer readable storage medium having instructions stored therein comprises an article of manufacture including instructions which implement aspects of the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
The computer readable program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other device to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer, other programmable apparatus or other device to produce a computer implemented process, such that the instructions which execute on the computer, other programmable apparatus, or other device implement the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
The flowchart and block diagrams in the Figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of systems, methods, and computer program products according to various embodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of instructions, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). In some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the blocks may occur out of the order noted in the Figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems that perform the specified functions or acts or carry out combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.
The terminology used herein is for the purpose of describing particular embodiments only, and is not intended to be limiting of the invention. As used herein, the singular forms “a”, “an” and “the” are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms “comprises” and/or “comprising,” when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof.
The corresponding structures, materials, acts, and equivalents of all means or step plus function elements, if any, in the claims below are intended to include any structure, material, or act for performing the function in combination with other claimed elements as specifically claimed. The description of the present invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description, but is not intended to be exhaustive or limited to the invention in the form disclosed. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the invention. The embodiment was chosen and described in order to best explain the principles of the invention and the practical application, and to enable others of ordinary skill in the art to understand the invention for various embodiments with various modifications as are suited to the particular use contemplated.
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