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Modeling human mobility has a wide range of applications from urban planning to simulations of disease spread. It is well known that humans spend 80% of their time indoors but modeling indoor human mobility is challenging due to three main…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Amee Trivedi , Kate Silverstein , Emma Strubell , Mohit Iyyer , Prashant Shenoy

Proximity detection in indoor environments based on WiFi signals has gained significant attention in recent years. Existing works rely on the dynamic signal reflections and their extracted features are dependent on motion strength. To…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-05-01 Yuqian Hu , Guozhen Zhu , Beibei Wang , K. J. Ray Liu

Cellular phones are now offering an ubiquitous means for scientists to observe life: how people act, move and respond to external influences. They can be utilized as measurement devices of individual persons and for groups of people of the…

Physics and Society · Physics 2015-06-12 Shao-Meng Qin , Hannu Verkasalo , Mikael Mohtaschemi , Tuomo Hartonen , Mikko Alava

With current technology, a number of entities have access to user mobility traces at different levels of spatio-temporal granularity. At the same time, users frequently reveal their location through different means, including geo-tagged…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2018-11-16 Apostolos Pyrgelis , Nicolas Kourtellis , Ilias Leontiadis , Joan Serrà , Claudio Soriente

The paper targets the problem of human motion detection using Wireless Local Area Network devices (WiFi) equipped with pattern reconfigurable antennas. Motion sensing is obtained by monitoring the body-induced alterations of the ambient…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Marco Santoboni , Riccardo Bersan , Stefano Savazzi , Alberto Zecchin , Vittorio Rampa Daniele Piazza

Nighttime lights satellite imagery has been used for decades as a uniform, global source of data for studying a wide range of socioeconomic factors. Recently, another more terrestrial source is producing data with similarly uniform global…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Brian Dickinson , Gourab Ghoshal , Xerxes Dotiwalla , Adam Sadilek , Henry Kautz

The ubiquitous presence of WiFi access points and mobile devices capable of measuring WiFi signal strengths allow for real-world applications in indoor localization and mapping. In particular, no additional infrastructure is required.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Bastian Schaefermeier , Gerd Stumme , Tom Hanika

Understanding the patterns of mobility of individuals is crucial for a number of reasons, from city planning to disaster management. There are two common ways of quantifying the amount of travel between locations: by direct observations…

Physics and Society · Physics 2014-08-25 Vasyl Palchykov , Marija Mitrović , Hang-Hyun Jo , Jari Saramäki , Raj Kumar Pan

In the past decade, large scale mobile phone data have become available for the study of human movement patterns. These data hold an immense promise for understanding human behavior on a vast scale, and with a precision and accuracy never…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-02-17 Nathalie E. Williams , Timothy A. Thomas , Matthew Dunbar , Nathan Eagle , Adrian Dobra

Human identification plays an important role in human-computer interaction. There have been numerous methods proposed for human identification (e.g., face recognition, gait recognition, fingerprint identification, etc.). While these methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Tong Xin , Bin Guo , Zhu Wang , Mingyang Li , Zhiwen Yu

Advances in computer vision and machine learning techniques have led to significant development in 2D and 3D human pose estimation from RGB cameras, LiDAR, and radars. However, human pose estimation from images is adversely affected by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-03 Jiaqi Geng , Dong Huang , Fernando De la Torre

We present experimental results and theoretical methods for the precise determination of the presence and the number of persons in an observed area by using Wi-Fi signals. Our setup does not require active cooperation of persons present in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-02-12 Dario Jukić , Silvije Domazet , Ante Ivanko , David Raca , Siniša Nikolić , Marin Knežević , Filip Jović , Nenad Raca , Hrvoje Buljan

Human mobility patterns are complex and distinct from one person to another. Nevertheless, motivated by tremendous potential benefits of modeling such patterns in enabling new mobile services and technologies, researchers have attempted to…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-07-09 Seyed Kaveh Fayazbakhsh

Wi-Fi channel state information (CSI) has emerged as a plausible modality for sensing different human activities as a function of modulations in the wireless signal that travels between wireless devices. Until now, most research has taken a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Mohammed Alloulah , Anton Isopoussu , Chulhong Min , Fahim Kawsar

Human mobility analysis is an important issue in social sciences, and mobility data are among the most sought-after sources of information in ur- Data ban studies, geography, transportation and territory management. In network sciences…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2013-01-29 Thomas Couronne , Zbigniew Smoreda , Ana-Maria Olteanu

Wi-Fi signals-based person identification attracts increasing attention in the booming Internet-of-Things era mainly due to its pervasiveness and passiveness. Most previous work applies gaits extracted from WiFi distortions caused by the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-22 Fei Wang , Jinsong Han , Feng Lin , Kui Ren

This paper proposes passive WiFi indoor localization. Instead of using WiFi signals received by mobile devices as fingerprints, we use signals received by routers to locate the mobile carrier. Consequently, software installation on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Minh Tu Hoang , Brosnan Yuen , Kai Ren , Ahmed Elmoogy , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Hung Le Nguyen Robert Westendorp , Kishore Reddy Tarimala

We implemented a system able to locate people indoor, with the purpose of providing assistive services. Such approach is particularly important for the Art, for providing information on exhibitions, art galleries and museums, and to allow…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Osvaldo Gervasi , Martina Fortunelli , Riccardo Magni , Damiano Perri , Marco Simonetti

This paper examines the application of WiFi signals for real-world monitoring of daily activities in home healthcare scenarios. While the state-of-the-art of WiFi-based activity recognition is promising in lab environments, challenges arise…

Nowadays as the world population has become more interconnected and is relying on faster transportation methods, simplified connections and shorter commuting times, we witness a rapid increase in human mobility. In this situation unveiling…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-13 Karim Keramat Jahromi