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The Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has affected several million people. With the outbreak of the epidemic, many researchers are devoting themselves to the COVID-19 screening system. The standard practices for rapid risk screening of…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Yanwei Fu , Feng Li , Wenxuan Wang , Haicheng Tang , Xuelin Qian , Mengwei Gu , Xiangyang Xue

AI plays an important role in COVID-19 identification. Computer vision and deep learning techniques can assist in determining COVID-19 infection with Chest X-ray Images. However, for the protection and respect of the privacy of patients,…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-14 Boyi Liu , Bingjie Yan , Yize Zhou , Yifan Yang , Yixian Zhang

The development of fast and accurate screening tools, which could facilitate testing and prevent more costly clinical tests, is key to the current pandemic of COVID-19. In this context, some initial work shows promise in detecting…

The objective of this research is to explore the existing mobile applications developed for the COVID-19 pandemic. To obtain this research objective, firstly the related applications were selected through the systematic search technique in…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Muhammad Nazrul Islam , Iyolita Islam , Kazi MD. Munim , A. K. M. Najmul Islam

Aim of this paper is the description of a new tool to support institutions in the implementation of targeted countermeasures, based on quantitative and multi-scale elements, for the fight and prevention of emergencies, such as the current…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-11-12 A. Sebastianelli , F. Mauro , G. Di Cosmo , F. Passarini , M. Carminati , S. L. Ullo

The adoption of digital contact tracing (DCT) technology during the COVID-19pandemic has shown multiple benefits, including helping to slow the spread of infectious disease and to improve the dissemination of accurate information. However,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Ananya Gangavarapu , Ellie Daw , Abhishek Singh , Rohan Iyer , Gabriel Harp , Sam Zimmerman , Ramesh Raskar

Object tracking quality usually depends on video context (e.g. object occlusion level, object density). In order to decrease this dependency, this paper presents a learning approach to adapt the tracker parameters to the context variations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-05-14 Duc Phu Chau , Monique Thonnat , François Bremond

Learning from human feedback is a popular approach to train robots to adapt to user preferences and improve safety. Existing approaches typically consider a single querying (interaction) format when seeking human feedback and do not…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Yashwanthi Anand , Nnamdi Nwagwu , Kevin Sabbe , Naomi T. Fitter , Sandhya Saisubramanian

We provide a rough sketch of a simple system design for exposure notification of COVID-19 infections based on copresence at cluster events -- locations and times where a threshold number of tested-positive (TP) individuals were present.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-01-04 Paul Syverson

Purpose: Accurate segmentation of lung and infection in COVID-19 CT scans plays an important role in the quantitative management of patients. Most of the existing studies are based on large and private annotated datasets that are…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-06-09 Jun Ma , Yixin Wang , Xingle An , Cheng Ge , Ziqi Yu , Jianan Chen , Qiongjie Zhu , Guoqiang Dong , Jian He , Zhiqiang He , Yuntao Zhu , Ziwei Nie , Xiaoping Yang

To reduce the impact of COVID-19 pandemic most countries have implemented several counter-measures to control the virus spread including school and border closing, shutting down public transport and workplace and restrictions on gathering.…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-09-14 Ahmed Ben Said , Abdelkarim Erradi , Hussein Aly , Abdelmonem Mohamed

Digital contact tracing/notification was initially hailed as a promising strategy to combat SARS-CoV-2, but in most jurisdictions it did not live up to its promise. To avert a given transmission event, both parties must have adopted the…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-10 Joanna Masel , James Petrie , Jason Bay , Wolfgang Ebbers , Aalekh Sharan , Scott Leibrand , Andreas Gebhard , Samuel Zimmerman

A critical need in assistive robotics, such as assistive wheelchairs for navigation, is a need to learn task intent and safety guarantees through user interactions in order to ensure safe task performance. For tasks where the objectives…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Ahalya Prabhakar , Aude Billard

Mitigation strategies that remove infectious individuals from the greater population have to balance their efficacy with the economic effects associated with quarantine and have to contend with the limited resources available to the public…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-09 Ted Londner , Jonathan Saunders , Dieter W. Schuldt , Bill Streilein

Governments, Healthcare, and Private Organizations in the global scale have been using digital tracking to keep COVID-19 outbreaks under control. Although this method could limit pandemic contagion, it raises significant concerns about user…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Callie Monroe , Faiza Tazi , Sanchari Das

Acute respiratory infections have epidemic and pandemic potential and thus are being studied worldwide, albeit in many different contexts and study formats. Predicting infection from symptom data is critical, though using symptom data from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Nabeel Abdur Rehman , Maxwell Matthaios Aliapoulios , Disha Umarwani , Rumi Chunara

In this paper, we propose a deep learning model to forecast the range of increase in COVID-19 infected cases in future days and we present a novel method to compute equidimensional representations of multivariate time series and…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Ankit Ramchandani , Chao Fan , Ali Mostafavi

While the coronavirus spreads, governments are attempting to reduce contagion rates at the expense of negative economic effects. Market expectations plummeted, foreshadowing the risk of a global economic crisis and mass unemployment.…

General Economics · Economics 2020-04-28 Fabian Stephany , Niklas Stoehr , Philipp Darius , Leonie Neuhäuser , Ole Teutloff , Fabian Braesemann

Contact tracing has been extensively studied from different perspectives in recent years. However, there is no clear indication of why this intervention has proven effective in some epidemics (SARS) and mostly ineffective in some others…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Quyu Kong , Manuel Garcia-Herranz , Ivan Dotu , Manuel Cebrian

Mobile phones are quickly becoming the primary source for social, behavioral, and environmental sensing and data collection. Today's smartphones are equipped with increasingly more sensors and accessible data types that enable the…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-11-22 Yaniv Altshuler , Nadav Aharony , Michael Fire , Yuval Elovici , Alex Pentland