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With robots increasingly integrating into human environments, understanding and predicting human motion is essential for safe and efficient interactions. Modern human motion and activity prediction approaches require high quality and…

Smartphone apps provide a vitally important opportunity for monitoring human mobility, human experience of ubiquitous information aids, and human activity in our increasingly well-instrumented spaces. As wireless data capabilities move…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Scott Kirkpatrick , Ron Bekkerman , Adi Zmirli , Francesco Malandrino

This paper introduces a Wi-Fi signal based passive wireless sensing system that has the capability to detect diverse indoor human movements, from whole body motions to limb movements and including breathing movements of the chest. The real…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-14 Bo Tan , Alison Burrows , Robert Piechocki , Ian Craddock , Karl Woodbridge , Kevin Chetty

Rapid advances in modern communication technology are enabling the accumulation of large-scale, high-resolution observational data of spatiotemporal movements of humans. Classification and prediction of human mobility based on the analysis…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-16 Juyong Park , Deok-Sun Lee , Marta C. Gonzalez

WiFi-based home monitoring has emerged as a compelling alternative to traditional camera- and sensor-based solutions, offering wide coverage with minimal intrusion by leveraging existing wireless infrastructure. This paper presents key…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-06 Guozhen Zhu , Yuqian Hu , Chenshu Wu , Wei-Hsiang Wang , Beibei Wang , K. J. Ray Liu

Location and mobility patterns of individuals are important to environmental planning, societal resilience, public health, and a host of commercial applications. Mining telecommunication traffic and transactions data for such purposes is…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2014-12-09 Pedro Sanches , Eric-Oluf Svee , Markus Bylund , Benjamin Hirsch , Magnus Boman

In the era of mobile computing, understanding human mobility patterns is crucial in order to better design protocols and applications. Many studies focus on different aspects of human mobility such as people's points of interests, routes,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2015-12-16 Ivan Oliveira Nunes , Pedro O. S. Vaz de Melo , Antonio A. F. Loureiro

Human Mobility has attracted attentions from different fields of studies such as epidemic modeling, traffic engineering, traffic prediction and urban planning. In this survey we review major characteristics of human mobility studies…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2013-07-04 Fereshteh Asgari , Vincent Gauthier , Monique Becker

As an important biomarker for human identification, human gait can be collected at a distance by passive sensors without subject cooperation, which plays an essential role in crime prevention, security detection and other human…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Lang Deng , Jianfei Yang , Shenghai Yuan , Han Zou , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Lihua Xie

One of the greatest concerns related to the popularity of GPS-enabled devices and applications is the increasing availability of the personal location information generated by them and shared with application and service providers.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2015-07-20 Luca Rossi , James Walker , Mirco Musolesi

The study of human mobility patterns is a crucially important research field for its impact on several socio-economic aspects and, in particular, the measure of regularity patters of human mobility can provide a across-the-board view of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2021-04-20 Fabio Vanni , David Lambert

Wi-Fi technology has strong potentials in indoor and outdoor sensing applications, it has several important features which makes it an appealing option compared to other sensing technologies. This paper presents a survey on different…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-02 A. M. Khalili , Abdel-Hamid Soliman , Md Asaduzzaman , Alison Griffiths

Macroscopic mobility of wireless users is important to determine the performance and energy effciency of a wireless network, because of the temporal correlations it introduces in the consumed power and throughput. In this work we introduce…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2014-07-15 Aris L. Moustakas , Luca Sanguinetti , Mérouane Debbah

In this article, we present a survey of recent advances in passive human behaviour recognition in indoor areas using the channel state information (CSI) of commercial WiFi systems. Movement of human body causes a change in the wireless…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-08-25 Siamak Yousefi , Hirokazu Narui , Sankalp Dayal , Stefano Ermon , Shahrokh Valaee

This paper proves the concept that it is feasible to accurately recognize specific human mobility shared patterns, based solely on the connection logs between portable devices and WiFi Access Points (APs), while preserving user's privacy.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-30 Orestes Manzanilla-Salazar , Brunilde Sansò

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development in the research topic of WiFi sensing that automatically senses human with commercial WiFi devices. This work falls into two major categories, i.e., the activity recognition and the indoor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Fei Wang , Jianwei Feng , Yinliang Zhao , Xiaobin Zhang , Shiyuan Zhang , Jinsong Han

In this paper, we propose a methodology for estimating the crowd speed using WiFi devices without relying on people to carry any device. Our approach not only enables speed estimation in the region where WiFi links are, but also in the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-02-01 Saandeep Depatla , Yasamin Mostofi

Profiting from the emergence of web-scale social data sets, numerous recent studies have systematically explored human mobility patterns over large populations and large time scales. Relatively little attention, however, has been paid to…

Predictive models for human mobility have important applications in many fields such as traffic control, ubiquitous computing and contextual advertisement. The predictive performance of models in literature varies quite broadly, from as…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-08-08 Andrea Cuttone , Sune Lehmann , Marta C. González

In the advent of a pervasive presence of location sharing services researchers gained an unprecedented access to the direct records of human activity in space and time. This paper analyses geo-located Twitter messages in order to uncover…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-03-03 Bartosz Hawelka , Izabela Sitko , Euro Beinat , Stanislav Sobolevsky , Pavlos Kazakopoulos , Carlo Ratti