Smoking detection based on regularity analysis of hand to mouth gestures

A number of studies have been introduced for the detection of smoking via a variety of features extracted from the wrist IMU data. However, none of the previous studies investigated gesture regularity as a way to detect smoking events. This study describes a novel method to detect smoking events by monitoring the regularity of hand gestures. Here, the regularity of hand gestures was estimated from a one axis accelerometer worn on the wrist of...