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First, to use a de-noising method to extract the feature of the dataset. Second, to cluster the dataset based on the begin time and end time. Finally, to complete activity recognition using a similarity matching method. To test the performance of the method, we used two two-resident datasets provided by Center for Advanced Studies in Adaptive Systems (CASAS). We evaluated our method by comparing it with some common classifiers. The results show that our method has certain improvements in the accuracy, recall, precision, and F-Measure. 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