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Several works have outlined the fact that the mobility in intermittently connected wireless networks is strongly governed by human behaviors as they are basically human-centered. It has been shown that the users' moves can be correlated and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Mohamed-Haykel Zayani , Vincent Gauthier , Djamal Zeghlache

This paper presents MultiTrack, a commodity WiFi-based human sensing system that can track multiple users and recognize the activities of multiple users performing them simultaneously. Such a system can enable easy and large-scale…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Sheng Tan , Jie Yang

Human pose estimation is fundamental to intelligent perception in the Internet of Things (IoT), enabling applications ranging from smart healthcare to human-computer interaction. While WiFi-based methods have gained traction, they often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yi Dao , Lankai Zhang , Hao Liu , Haiwei Zhang , Wenbo Wang

Communication-enabled devices routinely carried by individuals have become pervasive, opening unprecedented opportunities for collecting digital metadata about the mobility of large populations. In this paper, we propose a novel methodology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-11-01 Ghazaleh Khodabandelou , Vincent Gauthier , Marco Fiore , Mounim El-Yacoubi

The analysis of pedestrian GPS datasets is fundamental to further advance on the study and the design of walkable cities. The highest resolution GPS data can characterize micro-mobility patterns and pedestrians' micro-motives in relation to…

The theme of human mobility is transversal to multiple fields of study and applications, from ad-hoc networks to smart cities, from transportation planning to recommendation systems on social networks. Despite the considerable efforts made…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Maria Luisa Damiani , Fatima Hachem , Christian Quadri , Matteo Rossini , Sabrina Gaito

We introduce and investigate the ability of an attacker to surreptitiously use an otherwise secure wireless network to detect moving people through walls, in an area in which people expect their location to be private. We call this attack…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2013-07-30 Arijit Banerjee , Dustin Maas , Maurizio Bocca , Neal Patwari , Sneha Kasera

This study presents the progress of our recent research regarding wireless measurements of the human body. First, we explain radar imaging algorithms for screening passengers at security checkpoints that can process data faster than…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-04 Takuya Sakamoto

Counting the number of people inside a building, from outside and without entering the building, is crucial for many applications. In this paper, we are interested in counting the total number of people walking inside a building (or in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-11-17 Saandeep Depatla , Yasamin Mostofi

The pandemic outbreak has profoundly changed our life, especially our social habits and communication behaviors. While this dramatic shock has heavily impacted human interaction rules, novel localization techniques are emerging to help…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Francesco Devoti , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Xavier Costa-Perez

Wi-Fi sensing has emerged as a significant technology in wireless sensing and Integrated Sensing and Communication (ISAC), offering benefits such as low cost, high penetration, and enhanced privacy. Currently, it is widely utilized in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-13 Zijian Zhao

Detecting the presence of persons and estimating their quantity in an indoor environment has grown in importance recently. For example, the information if a room is unoccupied can be used for automatically switching off the light, air…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-18 Florenc Demrozi , Cristian Turetta , Fabio Chiarani , Philipp H. Kindt , Graziano Pravadelli

Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs), known as Wi-Fi, have become an essential service in university environments that helps staff, students and guests to access connectivity to the Internet from their mobile devices. Apart from the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-04-06 Farhana Binte Kamrul Easha , Robert Abbas , Matthew Daley

This paper presents a two-dimensional phase extraction system using passive WiFi sensing to monitor three basic elderly care activities including breathing rate, essential tremor and falls. Specifically, a WiFi signal is acquired through…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-04-04 U. M. Khan , Z. Kabir , S. A. Hassan

Human motion prediction and trajectory forecasting are essential in human motion analysis. Nowadays, sensors can be seamlessly integrated into clothing using cutting-edge electronic textile (e-textile) technology, allowing long-term…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Tianchen Shen , Irene Di Giulio , Matthew Howard

Human mobility patterns refer to the regularities and trends in the way people move, travel, or navigate through different geographical locations over time. Detecting human mobility patterns is essential for a variety of applications,…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yisheng Alison Zheng , Abdallah Lakhdari , Amani Abusafia , Shing Tai Tony Lui , Athman Bouguettaya

Human travelling behaviours are markedly regular, to a large extent, predictable, and mostly driven by biological necessities (\eg sleeping, eating) and social constructs (\eg school schedules, synchronisation of labour). Not surprisingly,…

With the increasing need for wireless data transfer, Wi-Fi networks have rapidly grown in recent years providing high throughput and easy deployment. Nowadays, Access Points (APs) can be found easily wherever we go, therefore Wi-Fi sensing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-11-13 Danilo Avola , Marco Cascio , Luigi Cinque , Daniele Pannone

Human mobility has been traditionally studied using surveys that deliver snapshots of population displacement patterns. The growing accessibility to ICT information from portable digital media has recently opened the possibility of…

Understanding human activities and movements on the Web is not only important for computational social scientists but can also offer valuable guidance for the design of online systems for recommendations, caching, advertising, and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Juhi Kulshrestha , Marcos Oliveira , Orkut Karacalik , Denis Bonnay , Claudia Wagner