Abstract
In this study, a novel hybrid tensor factorisation and deep learning approach has been proposed and implemented for sleep pose identification and classification of twelve different sleep postures. We have applied tensor factorisation to infrared (IR) images of 10 subjects to extract group-level data patterns, undertake dimensionality reduction and reduce occlusion for IR images. Pre-trained VGG-19 neural network has been used to predict the sleep poses under the blanket. Finally, we compared our results with those without the factorisation stage and with CNN network. Our new pose detection method outperformed the methods solely based on VGG-19 and 4-layer CNN network. The average accuracy for 10 volunteers increased from 78.1% and 75.4% to 86.0%.