# SAM-GCNN: A Gated Convolutional Neural Network with Segment-Level Attention Mechanism for Home Activity Monitoring

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.03986 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/1810.03986/

## Key facts

- Cited by 2 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 3 Oct 2018.

## Built on by (most cited first, 2 of 2)

- [MoPFormer: Motion-Primitive Transformer for Wearable-Sensor Activity Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.20744/) (2025)
- [Game Theory Solutions in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition: A Review](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.06311/) (2023)

## Abstract (arXiv)

In this paper, we propose a method for home activity monitoring. We demonstrate our model on dataset of Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events (DCASE) 2018 Challenge Task 5. This task aims to classify multi-channel audios into one of the provided pre-defined classes. All of these classes are daily activities performed in a home environment. To tackle this task, we propose a gated convolutional neural network with segment-level attention mechanism (SAM-GCNN). The proposed framework is a convolutional model with two auxiliary modules: a gated convolutional neural network and a segment-level attention mechanism. Furthermore, we adopted model ensemble to enhance the capability of generalization of our model. We evaluated our work on the development dataset of DCASE 2018 Task 5 and achieved competitive performance, with a macro-averaged F-1 score increasing from 83.76% to 89.33%, compared with the convolutional baseline system.