Daytime Sleepiness Level Prediction Using Respiratory Information

Daytime Sleepiness Level Prediction Using Respiratory Information

Kazuhiko Shinoda, Masahiko Yoshii, Hayato Yamaguchi, Hirotaka Kaji

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
AI for Improving Human Well-being. Pages 5967-5974. https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/827

Daytime sleepiness is not only the cause of productivity decline and accidents, but also an important metric of health risks. Despite its importance, the long-term quantitative analysis of sleepiness in daily living has hardly been done due to time and effort required for the continuous tracking of sleepiness. Although a number of sleepiness detection technologies have been proposed, most of them focused only on driver’s drowsiness. In this paper, we present the first step towards the continuous sleepiness tracking in daily living situations. We explore a methodology for predicting subjective sleepiness levels utilizing respiration and acceleration data obtained from a novel wearable sensor. A class imbalance handling technique and hidden Markov model are combined with supervised classifiers to overcome the difficulties in learning from an imbalanced and time series dataset. We evaluate the performance of our models through a comprehensive experiment.
Keywords:
Special Track on AI for Improving Human-Well Being: AI applications for Improving Human-Well Being (Special Track on AI and Human Wellbeing)
Special Track on AI for Improving Human-Well Being: Health applications (Special Track on AI and Human Wellbeing)