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We have recently proposed a scheme to use the channel equalization blocks of telecommunication systems to sense changes in an environment. We call this communication-sensing, CommSense for short. After some initial positive results we tried…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-25 Abhishek Bhatta , Amit Kumar Mishra

In conjunction with a social gathering held on a university campus, the movement of attendees were tracked within the venue for approximately two hours using a UWB indoor positioning system, in order to visualize their interpersonal…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2025-10-09 Hayato Shinto , Yu Ohki , Kenji Mizumoto , Kei Saito

Classification between different activities in an indoor environment using wireless signals is an emerging technology for various applications, including intrusion detection, patient care, and smart home. Researchers have shown different…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-02-10 B. R. Manoj , Guoda Tian , Sara Gunnarsson , Fredrik Tufvesson , Erik G. Larsson

WiFi sensing has emerged as a compelling contactless modality for human activity monitoring by capturing fine-grained variations in Channel State Information (CSI). Its ability to operate continuously and non-intrusively while preserving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Guozhen Zhu , Yuqian Hu , Weihang Gao , Wei-Hsiang Wang , Beibei Wang , K. J. Ray Liu

Fingerprinting is a popular indoor localization technique since it can utilize existing infrastructures (e.g., access points). However, its site survey process is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task, which limits the application of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Fuqiang Gu , Milad Ramezani , Kourosh Khoshelham , Xiaoping Zheng , Ruiqin Zhou , Jianga Shang

WiFi channel state information (CSI) has emerged as a plausible modality for sensing different human vital signs, i.e. respiration and body motion, as a function of modulated wireless signals that travel between WiFi devices. Although a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Kamran Ali , Mohammed Alloulah , Fahim Kawsar , Alex X. Liu

Person re-identification (ReID), as a crucial technology in the field of security, plays an important role in security detection and people counting. Current security and monitoring systems largely rely on visual information, which may…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Chen Mao , Chong Tan , Jingqi Hu , Min Zheng

Locating the persons moving through an environment without the necessity of them being equipped with special devices has become vital for many applications including security, IoT, healthcare, etc. Existing device-free indoor localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mohamed Mohsen , Hamada Rizk , Hirozumi Yamaguch , Moustafa Youssef

The field of human activity recognition has evolved significantly, driven largely by advancements in Internet of Things (IoT) device technology, particularly in personal devices. This study investigates the use of ultra-wideband (UWB)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Aurora Polo-Rodríguez , Juan Carlos Valera , Jesús Peral , David Gil , Javier Medina-Quero

Wi-Fi sensing is gaining momentum as a non-intrusive and privacy-preserving alternative to vision-based systems for human identification. However, person identification through wireless signals, particularly without user motion, remains…

This article is on collective phenomena in pedestrian dynamics during the assembling and dispersal phases of gatherings. To date pedestrian dynamics have been primarily studied in the natural and engineering sciences. Pedestrians are…

Physics and Society · Physics 2017-07-05 Anna Sieben , Jette Schumann , Armin Seyfried

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

The proliferation of wireless localization technologies provides a promising future for serving human beings in indoor scenarios. Their applications include real-time tracking, activity recognition, health care, navigation, emergence…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2010-03-10 Da Zhang , Feng Xia , Zhuo Yang , Lin Yao , Wenhong Zhao

The increasing practice of engaging crowds, where organizations use IT to connect with dispersed individuals for explicit resource creation purposes, has precipitated the need to measure the precise processes and benefits of these…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-02-15 J. Prpic , P. , Shukla

Accurately estimating the number of objects in a single image is a challenging yet meaningful task and has been applied in many applications such as urban planning and public safety. In the various object counting tasks, crowd counting is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Guangshuai Gao , Junyu Gao , Qingjie Liu , Qi Wang , Yunhong Wang

Research has shown that counting WiFi packets called probe requests (PRs) implicitly provides a proxy for the number of people in an area. In this paper, we discuss a crowd counting system involving WiFi sensors detecting PRs over the air,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Jean-François Determe , Sophia Azzagnuni , François Horlin , Philippe De Doncker

Impulse propagation in crowds is a phenomenon that is crucial for understanding collective dynamics, but has been scarcely addressed so far. Therefore, we have carried out experiments in which persons standing in a crowd are pushed forward…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-26 Sina Feldmann , Juliane Adrian , Maik Boltes

In this article, we put forward the mobile crowd sensing paradigm based on ubiquitous wearable devices carried by human users. The key challenge for mass user involvement into prospective urban crowd sending applications, such as monitoring…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-11-21 Olga Galinina , Konstantin Mikhaylov , Kaibin Huang , Sergey Andreev , Yevgeni Koucheryavy

A recently conducted indoor-to-outdoor measurement campaign for investigating the propagation characteristics of an $8 \times 8$ virtual multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) based wireless sensor network (WSN) is presented in this paper.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-03 I. Dey , M. Majid Butt , N. Marchetti

Simultaneous use of high-end wearable wireless devices like smart glasses is challenging in a dense indoor environment due to the high nature of interference. In this scenario, the millimeter wave (mmWave) band offers promising potential…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-06-14 Kiran Venugopal , Robert W. Heath