A CNN-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Imbalanced Walking Direction Recognition
摘要
Walking direction recognition is vital for HCI, healthcare monitoring, and navigation, but real-world data are highly imbalanced: non-straight trajectories far outnumber straight ones, biasing classifiers and reducing accuracy. We collect synchronized inertial and plantar-pressure signals from wearables and deliberately construct an imbalanced dataset to mirror practice. We then propose a multimodal framework that couples CNN-based spatiotemporal feature extractors with a DRL Q-network; a reward-driven optimization promotes balanced decisions under skewed label distributions. Experiments on the constructed dataset show consistent gains over state-of-the-art methods, with the largest improvements under severe imbalance, demonstrating robustness and suitability for deployment in wearable gait analysis systems.