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Contact tracing has been considered as an effective measure to limit the transmission of infectious disease such as COVID-19. Trajectory-based contact tracing compares the trajectories of users with the patients, and allows the tracing of…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Maocheng Li , Yuxiang Zeng , Libin Zheng , Lei Chen , Qing Li

During a pandemic, contact tracing is an essential tool to drive down the infection rate within a population. To accelerate the laborious manual contact tracing process, digital contact tracing (DCT) tools can track contact events…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Xiang Cheng , Hanchao Yang , Archanaa S Krishnan , Patrick Schaumont , Yaling Yang

Millimeter-Wave (mmWave) radar enables camera-free gesture recognition for Internet of Things (IoT) interfaces, with robustness to lighting variations and partial occlusions. However, recent studies reveal that its data can inadvertently…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ying Liu , Si Zuo , Chao Yang , Yuqing Song , Dariush Salami , Stephan Sigg

With the COVID-19 pandemic, quarantines took place across the globe. In the aim of stopping or slowing the progression of the COVID-19 contamination, many countries have deployed a contact tracing system to notify persons that be in contact…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-10-09 Mohamed-Lamine Messai , Hamida Seba

In this paper, we propose a deep learning-based beam tracking method for millimeter-wave (mmWave)communications. Beam tracking is employed for transmitting the known symbols using the sounding beams and tracking time-varying channels to…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-12-05 Sun Hong Lim , Sunwoo Kim , Byonghyo Shim , Jun Won Choi

This paper introduces MMW-Carry, a system designed to predict the probability of individuals carrying various objects using millimeter-wave radar signals, complemented by camera input. The primary goal of MMW-Carry is to provide a rapid and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Xiangyu Gao , Youchen Luo , Ali Alansari , Yaping Sun

This study proposes a method to determine the filter parameters required for the topology method, which is a radar-based noncontact method for measurement of heart inter-beat intervals. The effectiveness of the proposed method is evaluated…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-20 Itsuki Iwata , Takuya Sakamoto , Takuya Matsumoto , Satoshi Hirata

Today's societies are enveloped in an ever-growing telecommunication infrastructure. This infrastructure offers important opportunities for sensing and recording a multitude of human behaviors. Human mobility patterns are a prominent…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Piotr Sapiezynski , Arkadiusz Stopczynski , David Kofoed Wind , Jure Leskovec , Sune Lehmann

Due to its light and weather-independent sensing, millimeter-wave (MMW) radar is essential in smart environments. Intelligent vehicle systems and industry-grade MMW radars have integrated such capabilities. Industry-grade MMW radars are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Maloy Kumar Devnath , Avijoy Chakma , Mohammad Saeid Anwar , Emon Dey , Zahid Hasan , Marc Conn , Biplab Pal , Nirmalya Roy

Robust, low-cost solutions are needed to maintain social distancing guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. We establish a method to measure the distance between multiple phones across a large number of closely spaced smartphones with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-01 Devansh R. Agrawal , Peter Lyon , Martin Frobisher , Andy Doherty , Ben Allen , Freddie Rawlins

Smartphone location-based methods have been proposed and implemented as an effective alternative to traditional labor intensive contact tracing methods. However, there are serious privacy and security concerns that may impede wide-spread…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Ssu-Hsin Yu

Millimeter wave radar can measure distances, directions, and Doppler velocity for objects in harsh conditions such as fog. The 4D imaging radar with both vertical and horizontal data resembling an image can also measure objects' height.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Yuan Zhuang , Binliang Wang , Jianzhu Huai , Miao Li

Millimeter-wave (mmw) radar is indispensable for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), which can monitor traffic conditions in all weathers. An end-to-end simulation method for mmw radar monitoring and identification at traffic…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-08-30 Ming Zong , Zhanyu Zhu

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

Pandemic and epidemic diseases such as CoVID-19, SARS-CoV2, and Ebola have spread to multiple countries and infected thousands of people. Such diseases spread mainly through person-to-person contacts. Health care authorities recommend…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-04-14 Arvin Hekmati , Gowri Ramachandran , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

The process of contact tracing to reduce the spread of highly infectious and life-threatening diseases has traditionally been a primarily manual process managed by public health entities. This process becomes challenged when faced with a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-08 Gary F. Hatke , Monica Montanari , Swaroop Appadwedula , Michael Wentz , John Meklenburg , Louise Ivers , Jennifer Watson , Paul Fiore

Contact tracing has emerged as one of the main mitigation strategies to prevent the spread of pandemics such as COVID-19. Recently, several efforts have been initiated to track individuals, their movements, and interactions using…

Mobile applications are being developed for automated logging of contacts via Bluetooth to help scale up digital contact tracing efforts in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A useful component of such applications is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Lillian Clark , Alan Papalia , Jônata Tyska Carvalho , Luca Mastrostefano , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

We introduce a novel approach to user authentication called Motion ID. The method employs motion sensing provided by inertial measurement units (IMUs), using it to verify the persons identity via short time series of IMU data captured by…

Inertial motion capture is a promising approach for capturing motion outside the laboratory. However, as one major drawback, most of the current methods require different quantities to be calibrated or computed offline as part of the setup…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Michael Lorenz , Bertram Taetz , Gabriele Bleser-Taetz , Didier Stricker