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steps: replace the peak pedometer with a stride-periodicity gait counter - #97
The live strap pedometer under-counted badly. On OxWalk (39 adults, free-living wrist, camera-annotated steps) it had MAPE 33% and read 25% low for anyone who actually walked. One weak footfall reset its confirm run, and its 0.10 g dead-zone dropped gentle walking.
pedometer() now detects gait by stride periodicity (autocorrelation over 4 s windows) and counts steps from the measured cadence. Same signature, and all constants are in seconds.
OxWalk, 60 s chunks
before
after
Wrist 100 Hz MAPE
33.0%
16.7%
Within ±10%
5/39
21/39
Walkers' bias
−25.4%
−10.4%
Wrist 25 Hz MAPE
91.9%
17.3%
Known limit: rhythmic arm work can still count as steps.
Tests:steps_test.dart updated, and all tests pass.
Edge follow-up: repin, then pass the measured sample rate to pedometer().
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Replace the under-counting peak-based pedometer with a rate-agnostic stride-periodicity gait counter that improves real-world walking accuracy.
New Features:
Replace the live peak-based pedometer with a stride-periodicity gait counter that derives steps from measured cadence.
Bug Fixes:
Improve step-count accuracy for free-living wrist data and low-rate inputs, including walking with weak footfalls.
Enhancements:
Make the counter rate-agnostic by expressing detection parameters in seconds and document its measured accuracy and known limitations.
Retain the existing pedometer API while updating live and chunked counting behavior for the new gait detector.
Documentation:
Update algorithm documentation to describe stride-periodicity detection and its accuracy, limitations, and validation results.
Tests:
Replace peak-counter tests with coverage for cadence accuracy, sample-rate handling, gait-duration gating, chunking, cadence limits, and weak-footfall resilience.
Chores:
Update the OxWalk validation harness and recorded configuration to reflect the new counter.
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New Features
Step counting now detects stride periodicity and estimates cadence, counting steps during qualifying gait runs of at least 8 seconds.
Live step counting can process buffers containing as few as two samples.
Updates
Pedometer configuration now uses time-based window, cadence, amplitude, regularity, and run-length settings instead of peak-detection settings.
Invalid sample rates and empty signals return zero steps.
Documentation now covers the updated detection approach, validation results, known limitations, and possible missed counts at minute-chunk boundaries.
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The Tier A pedometer now detects gait through stride periodicity and counts steps from measured cadence across qualifying runs. Its parameters, live-buffer eligibility, documentation, and tests have changed.
Changes: Tier A pedometer
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Periodicity parameters and algorithm description lib/src/onehz/motion/steps.dart, README.md, ALGORITHMS.md, docs/ALGORITHM_CATALOG_1HZ.md
StepParams replaces sample-based peak-detector settings with time-based window, lag, cadence, amplitude, regularity, and minimum-run parameters. The algorithm descriptions now refer to periodicity detection and measured cadence.
Periodicity counting and live behavior lib/src/onehz/motion/steps.dart, lib/src/onehz/motion/motion.dart
The counter filters the signal, decimates it above 50 Hz, and uses normalized autocorrelation to estimate step periods. It counts qualifying runs of at least 8 seconds. livePedometer accepts buffers with at least two samples when the sample rate is positive.
Cadence validation and supporting updates test/onehz/steps_test.dart, tool/oxwalk_validate.dart
Tests cover synthetic cadence, sample rates, chunking, minimum run duration, weak footfalls, and updated parameters and measurements. The OxWalk harness comment describes the 8-second run requirement. Several calorie-test profile declarations are reformatted without changing their values.
The change is mergeable with a small follow-up: reject non-finite rates in livePedometer to avoid invalid durations. Short walks credited through window spill are now explicitly documented.
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The PR replaces the under-counting adaptive peak detector with a four-second autocorrelation-based gait detector that measures cadence, identifies step versus stride periodicity, and counts steps from gait duration; it also makes parameters time-based, preserves the public API, and updates tests and OxWalk validation documentation for the new behavior.
Sequence diagram for measured-cadence pedometer processing
Flow diagram for autocorrelation gait step counting
flowchart LR
A["Accelerometer magnitude signal"] --> B["Band-pass filtering"]
B --> C["Optional decimation to 50 Hz"]
C --> D["4 s window autocorrelation"]
D --> E["Select fundamental period"]
E --> F["Classify step or stride period"]
F --> G["Apply amplitude and stride-regularity gate"]
G --> H["Require 8 s gait run"]
H --> I["Count gait duration / measured step period"]
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Replace peak-based step detection with a rate-agnostic stride-periodicity gait counter.
Band-pass acceleration magnitude, optionally decimate above 50 Hz, and analyze four-second windows with normalized autocorrelation.
Select the fundamental cadence, distinguish step period from stride period using lag and half-lag correlation, and count time divided by measured step period.
Gate counting on amplitude, stride autocorrelation hysteresis, and eight-second minimum gait runs.
Move algorithm constants from sample units to seconds and retain the existing pedometer/live-pedometer interfaces.
Document validation results and known limitations, including rhythmic arm motion, cadence bounds, and chunk-boundary losses.
Revise step-counter tests to validate cadence-derived counting, sample-rate independence, edge behavior, and real-world configuration.
Replace legacy peak-detector and interval-bound assertions with synthetic cadence tests across the supported range and documented misread cases.
Add coverage for 25/50/100 Hz inputs, mislabelled rates, short walks, weak footfalls, and per-minute chunking.
Pin the new OxWalk-tuned parameter configuration and update reported wrist, hip, and chunking metrics.
test/onehz/steps_test.dart
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Review comments at @lib/src/onehz/motion/steps.dart:
- Around line 156-158: Update the cadence-band documentation near `stepLoS` and
`stepHiS` to remove the claim that signals below 60 spm are not counted. Clarify
that slower step-only signals are handled by the step/stride decision and are
not simply dropped, while preserving the sprint-above-240-spm explanation.
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The AN-2554-shaped peak counter scored MAPE 33.0% on OxWalk (39 adults,
free-living dominant wrist, camera ground truth), only 5/39 within +-10%,
and under-counted everyone who actually walked by ~25%: one weak footfall
reset its CONFIRM=8 run and its 0.10 g dead-zone dropped gentle walking.
No sens/confirm setting fixed that without 3-6x over-counting arm work.
The new counter decides gait per 1 s from the autocorrelation of a 4 s
band-passed |a| window: shortest strong period, a step-vs-stride decision
(the two populations separate cleanly on OxWalk), a stride-lag regularity
gate with hysteresis and an 8 s minimum run, then steps = time / measured
step period. All constants are in seconds.
OxWalk, production 60 s chunking, gain 1.00 (tool/oxwalk_validate.dart):
wrist 100 Hz MAPE 33.0% -> 16.7%, within 10% 5 -> 21 of 39,
walkers bias -25.4% -> -10.4%, totals -19.8% -> -7.3%
wrist 50 Hz 33.6% -> 16.9%
wrist 25 Hz 91.9% -> 17.3%
hip 100 Hz 29.5% -> 17.6%
Gate thresholds from a grid search; leave-one-participant-out MAPE 17.5%,
38/39 folds chose the same configuration. Cost: ~1.35 ms per minute of
100 Hz signal (AOT), up from 0.24 ms.
the step/stride decision runs before the 60-240 spm band is checked, so a
step-only signal between ~37.5 and ~67 spm is read as a stride and counted
double, and only below ~37.5 spm is nothing counted. the old note said
everything under 60 spm was dropped, which the code and the 40 spm test
both contradict.
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Minor · Define handling for non-finite magnitude samples before the band-pass… · steps.dart:206-208
lib/src/onehz/motion/steps.dart:206-208 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Define handling for non-finite magnitude samples before the band-pass filter.
pedometer accepts any double, including NaN. Once NaN enters the trailing-mean accumulator, every later filtered value is NaN. Windows that overlap or follow that point are rejected, so steps after the first NaN sample in a minute may not be counted. livePedometer and calcSteps pass magnitudes to pedometer without a finite check.
Choose and document a policy for non-finite samples, and state the input contract on pedometer. The repository documents and tests no finite-input contract for this path.
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Review comment at @lib/src/onehz/motion/steps.dart around lines 206 - 208:
Update the `pedometer` input contract to specify how non-finite magnitude
samples are handled, and apply that policy before the trailing-mean band-pass
filtering so a NaN cannot poison subsequent filtered values. Keep
`livePedometer` and `calcSteps` behavior consistent with the chosen policy.
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- Line 270: Update the run-length check around `j - i + 1` to sum `segS` for
segments from `i` through `j` and compare the total seconds with
`StepParams.minRun`, rather than counting segments. Add a test covering a
fractional final buffer where the run totals about 7.5 seconds and must not
qualify.
- Around line 235-238: Update the run-credit gate in the motion classification
flow around _decide so it measures gait-active duration rather than counting
still seconds included by the expanded lo/hi windows; preserve the documented
minRun behavior. Add a regression test showing a 7-second walk with still
padding is not credited.
- Around line 203-206: Update the guard that validates sampleRateHz before
calculating the moving-average width to reject non-finite values as well as
non-positive rates, returning 0 for those inputs; preserve the existing
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Review comments at @lib/src/onehz/motion/steps.dart:
- Around line 206-208: Update the `pedometer` input contract to specify how
non-finite magnitude samples are handled, and apply that policy before the
trailing-mean band-pass filtering so a NaN cannot poison subsequent filtered
values. Keep `livePedometer` and `calcSteps` behavior consistent with the chosen
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the run was counted in segments, and the last segment of a buffer can be
shorter than a second, so a 7.5 s walk got credited. also say in the doc that
the window around each second lets still seconds next to a short walk join its
run.
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Return PedometerResult.none for non-finite sample rates.
206-206: Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Return PedometerResult.none for non-finite sample rates.
A NaN sampleRateHz passes the sampleRateHz <= 0 guard. durationS then becomes NaN while steps is 0. Add !sampleRateHz.isFinite to this guard, as _gaitSteps now does.
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Review comment at @lib/src/onehz/motion/steps.dart at line 206:
Update the pedometer result path to return PedometerResult.none when
sampleRateHz is non-finite, matching _gaitSteps; ensure the guard applies before
calculating durationS so NaN cannot produce a result with zero steps and a NaN
duration.
The test file checks only 5 s, 7.5 s and 20 s, so no assertion runs a walk whose credited run is exactly StepParams.minRun seconds. At 120 spm, a walk of 8 s produces eight 1.0 s gait segments, and runS equals 8.0. The gate runS >= StepParams.minRun credits that run, but runS > StepParams.minRun would not. Adding this case makes a change from >= to > fail a test. At 120 spm, 8 s is about 16 steps, so the range below covers normal estimation error.
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test('the minimum run is measured in seconds, not segments', () {
// 7.5 s is eight segments, the last one half a second long.
expect(stepsAt(120, 7.5), 0);
+ // Exactly minRun seconds of gait is credited.+ expect(stepsAt(120, 8), inInclusiveRange(14, 18));
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Add an assertion to the minimum-run test using stepsAt(120, 8) and an inclusive
expected range of 14–18, so the test verifies that a run exactly equal to
StepParams.minRun is credited.
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The live strap pedometer under-counted badly. On OxWalk (39 adults, free-living wrist, camera-annotated steps) it had MAPE 33% and read 25% low for anyone who actually walked. One weak footfall reset its confirm run, and its 0.10 g dead-zone dropped gentle walking.
pedometer()now detects gait by stride periodicity (autocorrelation over 4 s windows) and counts steps from the measured cadence. Same signature, and all constants are in seconds.steps_test.dartupdated, and all tests pass.pedometer().Summary by Sourcery
Replace the under-counting peak-based pedometer with a rate-agnostic stride-periodicity gait counter that improves real-world walking accuracy.
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