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Human localization is gaining momentum in security, healthcare, logistics, and smart spaces applications. While global navigation systems are unreliable indoor, device-free (a.k.a. passive) localization methods that exploit human-induced…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-07 Federica Fieramosca , Anastasia Maiolli , Alexander H. Paulus , Stefano Savazzi , Michele D'Amico

Privacy issues related to video camera feeds have led to a growing need for suitable alternatives that provide functionalities such as user authentication, activity classification and tracking in a noninvasive manner. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Vinoj Jayasundara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Kasun T. Hemachandra

Modeling human mobility has a wide range of applications from urban planning to simulations of disease spread. It is well known that humans spend 80% of their time indoors but modeling indoor human mobility is challenging due to three main…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-13 Amee Trivedi , Kate Silverstein , Emma Strubell , Mohit Iyyer , Prashant Shenoy

With the rapid development of wireless communication technology, wireless access points (AP) and internet of things (IoT) devices have been widely deployed in our surroundings. Various types of wireless signals (e.g., Wi-Fi, LoRa, LTE) are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-27 Zheng Yang , Yi Zhang , Guoxuan Chi , Guidong Zhang

WiFi offloading has emerged as a key component of cellular operator strategy to meet the data needs of rich, mobile devices. As such, mobile devices tend to aggressively seek out WiFi in order to provide improved user Quality of Experience…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-02-05 Xueheng Hu , Lixing Song , Dirk Van Bruggen , Aaron Striegel

The recovery phase of the COVID-19 pandemic requires careful planning and monitoring while people gradually return to work. Internet-of-Things (IoT) is widely regarded as a crucial tool to help combating COVID-19 pandemic in many areas and…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2020-07-27 Mu Mu

Crowd mobility has been paid attention for the Internet-of-things (IoT) applications. This paper addresses the crowd estimation problem and builds an IoT service to share the crowd estimation results across different systems. The crowd…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Fang-Jing Wu , Gürkan Solmaz

The paper targets the problem of human motion detection using Wireless Local Area Network devices (WiFi) equipped with pattern reconfigurable antennas. Motion sensing is obtained by monitoring the body-induced alterations of the ambient…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Marco Santoboni , Riccardo Bersan , Stefano Savazzi , Alberto Zecchin , Vittorio Rampa Daniele Piazza

Smartphone apps provide a vitally important opportunity for monitoring human mobility, human experience of ubiquitous information aids, and human activity in our increasingly well-instrumented spaces. As wireless data capabilities move…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-06-22 Scott Kirkpatrick , Ron Bekkerman , Adi Zmirli , Francesco Malandrino

The focus on privacy-related measures regarding wireless networks grew in last couple of years. This is especially important with technologies like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, which are all around us and our smartphones use them not just for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Tomas Bravenec , Joaquín Torres-Sospedra , Michael Gould , Tomas Fryza

Many aspects of life are associated with places of human mobility patterns and nowadays we are facing an increase in the pervasiveness of mobile devices these individuals carry. Positioning technologies that serve these devices such as the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-26 Thiago Andrade , Brais Cancela , João Gama

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 human state estimation framework that allows us to estimate the location, and even the activities, of people in an indoor environment without the requirement that they carry a specific devices with them. To achieve this "device…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Saria Al Laham , Bobak H. Baghi , Pierre-Yves Lajoie , Amal Feriani , Sachini Herath , Steve Liu , Gregory Dudek

Wi-Fi sensing has been used to detect and track movements in an environment, resulting in the emergence of several innovative applications. Wi-Fi sensing can detect movement and locate objects by analyzing variations in the Wi-Fi signal due…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Anirudha Sahoo , Tanguy Ropitault , Steve Blandino , Nada Golmie

Information about the spatiotemporal flow of humans within an urban context has a wide plethora of applications. Currently, although there are many different approaches to collect such data, there lacks a standardized framework to analyze…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-23 Zann Koh , Yuren Zhou , Billy Pik Lik Lau , Chau Yuen , Bige Tuncer , Keng Hua Chong

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

Recent years have witnessed the rapid development in the research topic of WiFi sensing that automatically senses human with commercial WiFi devices. This work falls into two major categories, i.e., the activity recognition and the indoor…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-07-22 Fei Wang , Jianwei Feng , Yinliang Zhao , Xiaobin Zhang , Shiyuan Zhang , Jinsong Han

WiFi sensing is an important part of the new WiFi 802.11bf standard, which can detect motion and measure distances. In recent years, some machine learning methods have been proposed for human activity recognition from WiFi signals. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Hojjat Salehinejad , Navid Hasanzadeh , Radomir Djogo , Shahrokh Valaee

Wi-Fi sensing has become an attractive option for non-invasive monitoring of human activities and vital signs. This paper explores the feasibility of using state-of-the-art commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) devices for Wi-Fi sensing…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-10-23 Jiuyu Liu , Yi Ma , Rahim Tafazolli

WiFi technology has been used pervasively in fine-grained indoor localization, gesture recognition, and adaptive communication. Achieving better performance in these tasks generally boils down to differentiating Line-Of-Sight (LOS) from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Sahib Singh Dhanjal , Maani Ghaffari , Ryan M. Eustice