  Increasing attention to the research on activity monitoring in smart homes
has motivated the employment of ambient intelligence to reduce the deployment
cost and solve the privacy issue. Several approaches have been proposed for
multi-resident activity recognition, however, there still lacks a comprehensive
benchmark for future research and practical selection of models. In this paper
we study different methods for multi-resident activity recognition and evaluate
them on same sets of data. The experimental results show that recurrent neural
network with gated recurrent units is better than other models and also
considerably efficient, and that using combined activities as single labels is
more effective than represent them as separate labels.
