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This paper presents a method for continuous indoor-outdoor environment detection on mobile devices based solely on WiFi fingerprints. Detection of indoor outdoor switching is an important part of identifying a user's context, and it…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-05 Guy Shtar , Bracha Shapira , Lior Rokach

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

Currently there is no standard indoor positioning system, similar to outdoor GPS. However, WiFi signals have been used in a large number of proposals to achieve the above positioning, many of which use machine learning to do so. But what…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-09 Vladimir Bellavista-Parent , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra , Antoni Perez-Navarro

As broadband Internet speeds continue to increase, the home wireless ("WiFi") network may more frequently become a performance bottleneck. Past research, now nearly a decade old, initially documented this phenomenon through indirect…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-12-01 Ranya Sharma , Marc Richardson , Guilherme Martins , Nick Feamster

This work presents a seminal approach for synthesizing images from WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) in through-wall scenarios. Leveraging the strengths of WiFi, such as cost-effectiveness, illumination invariance, and wall-penetrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Julian Strohmayer , Rafael Sterzinger , Christian Stippel , Martin Kampel

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

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

This paper introduces a novel method for estimating the size of seated crowds with commodity WiFi signals, by leveraging natural body fidgeting behaviors as a passive sensing cue. Departing from prior binary fidget representations, our…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-06 Mert Torun , Alireza Parsay , Yasamin Mostofi

This paper presents a mobile crowdsensing approach to identify the indoor points of interest (POI) by exploiting Wi-Fi similarity measurements. Since indoor environments are lacking the GPS positioning accuracy when compared to outdoors, we…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2019-08-26 Sumudu Hasala Marakkalage , Ran Liu , Sanjana Kadaba Viswanath , Chau Yuen

Zone-level occupancy counting is a critical technology for smart buildings and can be used for several applications such as building energy management, surveillance, and public safety. Existing occupancy counting techniques typically…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-02-22 Bekir Sait Ciftler , Sener Dikmese , Ismail Guvenc , Kemal Akkaya , Abdullah Kadri

Detecting whether a target crosses the given zone (e.g., a door) can enable various practical applications in smart homes, including intelligent security and people counting. The traditional infrared-based approach only covers a line and…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Weiyan Shi , Xuanzhi Wang , Kai Niu , Leye Wang , Daqing Zhang

We present a method of estimating the number of people in high density crowds from still images. The method estimates counts by fusing information from multiple sources. Most of the existing work on crowd counting deals with very small…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-07-31 Ankan Bansal , K. S. Venkatesh

The problem of radar-based tracking of groups of people moving together and counting their numbers in indoor environments is considered here. A novel processing pipeline to track groups of people moving together and count their numbers is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-06 Dingyang Wang , Sen Yuan , Alexander Yarovoy , Francesco Fioranelli

Accurate people counting in smart buildings and intelligent transportation systems is crucial for energy management, safety protocols, and resource allocation. This is especially critical during emergencies, where precise occupant counts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-18 Ishrath Ahamed , Chamith Dilshan Ranathunga , Dinuka Sandun Udayantha , Benny Kai Kiat Ng , Chau Yuen

The Internet has grown into a large cyber-physical system centered that connects not just computer systems but a plethora of systems, devices, and objects, collectively referred to as "Things", giving rise to the term "Internet of Things"…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Wei-Chuan Lin , Winston K. G. Seah , Wei Li

To explore large-scale population indoor interactions, we analyze 18,715 users' WiFi access logs recorded in a Chinese university campus during 3 months, and define two categories of human interactions, the event interaction (EI) and the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2017-06-07 Yi-Qing Zhang , Xiang Li , Lin Wang , Yan Zhang

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

We present a passive non-line-of-sight method that infers the number of people or activity of a person from the observation of a blank wall in an unknown room. Our technique analyzes complex imperceptible changes in indirect illumination in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-31 Prafull Sharma , Miika Aittala , Yoav Y. Schechner , Antonio Torralba , Gregory W. Wornell , William T. Freeman , Fredo Durand

This paper presents two novel approaches for people counting in crowded and open environments that combine the information gathered by multiple views. Multiple camera are used to expand the field of view as well as to mitigate the problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Fabio Dittrich , Luiz E. S. de Oliveira , Alceu S. Britto , Alessandro L. Koerich

Crowd monitoring and analysis in mass events are highly important technologies to support the security of attending persons. Proposed methods based on terrestrial or airborne image/video data often fail in achieving sufficiently accurate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-24 Roland Perko , Thomas Schnabel , Gerald Fritz , Alexander Almer , Lucas Paletta