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A substantial amount of growth is being achieved by businesses through IoT-based services. The emergent of small electronic devices capable of computing, which are commonly known as wearables in IoT domain has proven to have huge impact in…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Yahuza Bello , Emanuel Figetakis

This paper considers joint device activity detection and channel estimation in Internet of Things (IoT) networks, where a large number of IoT devices exist but merely a random subset of them become active for short-packet transmission at…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Qipeng Wang , Liang Liu , Shuowen Zhang , Francis C. M. Lau

Advances in IoT technologies combined with new algorithms have enabled the collection and processing of high-rate multi-source data streams that quantify human behavior in a fine-grained level and can lead to deeper insights on individual…

Elderly care is one of the many applications supported by real-time activity recognition systems. Traditional approaches use cameras, body sensor networks, or radio patterns from various sources for activity recognition. However, these…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-03-18 Liang Wang , Tao Gu , Xianping Tao , Jian Lu

We developed a ResNet-based human activity recognition (HAR) model with minimal overhead to detect gait versus non-gait activities and everyday activities (walking, running, stairs, standing, sitting, lying, sit-to-stand transitions). The…

Industrial wireless sensor networks enable real-time data collection, analysis, and control by interconnecting diverse industrial devices. In these industrial settings, power outlets are not always available, and reliance on battery power…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Dries Van Leemput , Jeroen Hoebeke , Eli De Poorter

The European Defence Agency's revised Capability Development Plan (CDP) identifies as a priority improving ground combat capabilities by enhancing soldiers' equipment for better protection. The CAPSARII project proposes in innovative…

While the widely available embedded sensors in smartphones and other wearable devices make it easier to obtain data of human activities, recognizing different types of human activities from sensor-based data remains a difficult research…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-15 Taoran Sheng , Manfred Huber

This paper introduces an effective solution for retrofitting construction power tools with low-power IoT to enable accurate activity classification. We address the challenge of distinguishing between when a power tool is being moved and…

Wearable sensors have permeated into people's lives, ushering impactful applications in interactive systems and activity recognition. However, practitioners face significant obstacles when dealing with sensing heterogeneities, requiring…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Rebecca Adaimi , Abdelkareem Bedri , Jun Gong , Richard Kang , Joanna Arreaza-Taylor , Gerri-Michelle Pascual , Michael Ralph , Gierad Laput

Step-counting has been widely implemented in wrist-worn devices and is accepted by end users as a quantitative indicator of everyday exercise. However, existing counting approach (mostly on wrist-worn setup) lacks robustness and thus…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Sizhen Bian , Rakita Strahinja , Philipp Schilk , Clénin Marc-André , Silvano Cortesi , Elio Reinschmidt , Kanika Dheman , Michele Magno

Human activity recognition, facilitated by smart devices, has recently garnered significant attention. Deep learning algorithms have become pivotal in daily activities, sports, and healthcare. Nevertheless, addressing the challenge of…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Nazanin Sedaghati , Masoud Kargar , Sina Abbaskhani

This work described a novel non-contact, wearable, real-time eye blink detection solution based on capacitive sensing technology. A low-cost and low-power consumption capacitive sensing prototype was developed and deployed on a pair of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-11 Mengxi Liu , Sizhen Bian , Paul Lukowicz

Wearable sensors enable health researchers to continuously collect data pertaining to the physiological state of individuals in real-world settings. However, such data can be subject to extensive missingness due to a complex combination of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Hui Wei , Maxwell A. Xu , Colin Samplawski , James M. Rehg , Santosh Kumar , Benjamin M. Marlin

As compared to simple actions, activities are much more complex, but semantically consistent with a human's real life. Techniques for action recognition from sensor generated data are mature. However, there has been relatively little work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-08 Ye Liu , Liqiang Nie , Lei Han , Luming Zhang , David S Rosenblum

Recognizing human activity plays a significant role in the advancements of human-interaction applications in healthcare, personal fitness, and smart devices. Many papers presented various techniques for human activity representation that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Reem Abdel-Salam , Rana Mostafa , Mayada Hadhood

Energy-efficiency is highly desirable for sensing systems in the Internet of Things (IoT). A common approach to achieve low-power systems is duty-cycling, where components in a system are turned off periodically to meet an energy budget.…

Systems and Control · Computer Science 2017-05-03 Long N. Le , Douglas L. Jones

Proactive monitoring of one's health could avoid serious diseases as well as better maintain the individual's well-being. In today's IoT world, there has been numerous wearable technological devices to monitor/measure different health…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Shubhi Asthana , Ray Strong , Aly Megahed

Cognitive fatigue has been a common problem among workers which has become an increasing global problem since the emergence of COVID-19 as a global pandemic. While existing multi-modal wearable sensors-aided automatic cognitive fatigue…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Mohammad Arif Ul Alam

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable devices such as smart watches embedded with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors has various applications relevant to our daily life, such as workout tracking and health monitoring. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Wenjin Tao , Haodong Chen , Md Moniruzzaman , Ming C. Leu , Zhaozheng Yi , Ruwen Qin