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The pandemic outbreak has profoundly changed our life, especially our social habits and communication behaviors. While this dramatic shock has heavily impacted human interaction rules, novel localization techniques are emerging to help…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-09-08 Francesco Devoti , Vincenzo Sciancalepore , Xavier Costa-Perez

The combination of ultrawideband (UWB) radios and inertial measurement units (IMU) can provide accurate positioning. To ensure reliable communication, the radios are generally mounted at the extremities of a mobile system whereas the IMUs…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Abhishek Goudar

This study proposes a personal identification technique that applies machine learning with a two-layered convolutional neural network to spectrogram images obtained from radar echoes of a target person in motion. The walking and sitting…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-19 Takuya Sakamoto

Communicating on millimeter wave (mmWave) bands is ushering in a new epoch of mobile communication which provides the availability of 10 Gbps high data rate transmission. However, mmWave links are easily prone to short transmission range…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-31 Yi Wang , Zhiqing Wei , Zhiyong Feng

Tracking human full-body motion using sparse wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) overcomes the limitations of occlusion and instrumentation of the environment inherent in vision-based approaches. However, purely IMU-based tracking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Ying Xue , Jiaxi Jiang , Rayan Armani , Dominik Hollidt , Yi-Chi Liao , Christian Holz

In this document, we report our proposal for modeling the risk of possible contagiousity in a given area monitored by RGB cameras where people freely move and interact. Our system, called Inter-Homines, evaluates in real-time the contagion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Matteo Fabbri , Fabio Lanzi , Riccardo Gasparini , Simone Calderara , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

There is growing use of technology-enabled contact tracing, the process of identifying potentially infected COVID-19 patients by notifying all recent contacts of an infected person. Governments, technology companies, and research groups…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Lucy Simko , Jack Lucas Chang , Maggie Jiang , Ryan Calo , Franziska Roesner , Tadayoshi Kohno

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has become a major threat to human health and well-being. Non-pharmaceutical interventions such as contact tracing solutions are important to contain the spreads of COVID-19-like infectious diseases. However,…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Peng Hu

Millimeter-wave (mmWave) radar enables contactless respiratory sensing,yet fine-grained monitoring is often degraded by nonstationary interference from body micromotions.To achieve micromotion interference removal,we propose…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Yong Wang , Qifan Shen , Bao Zhang , Zijun Huang , Chengbo Zhu , Shuai Yao , Qisong Wu

The ageing society brings attention to daily elderly care through sensing technologies. The future smart home is expected to enable in-home daily monitoring, such as fall detection, for seniors in a non-invasive, non-cooperative, and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-11-16 Xuyao Yu , Jiazhao Wang , Wenchao Jiang

Since electromagnetic signals are omnipresent, Radio Frequency (RF)-sensing has the potential to become a universal sensing mechanism with applications in localization, smart-home, retail, gesture recognition, intrusion detection, etc. Two…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-23 Cristian J. Vaca-Rubio , Dariush Salami , Petar Popovski , Elisabeth de Carvalho , Zheng-Hua Tan , Stephan Sigg

Contact tracing promises to help fight the spread of Covid-19 via an early detection of possible contagion events. To this end, most existing solutions share the following architecture: smartphones continuously broadcast random beacons that…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Pietro Tedeschi , Spiridon Bakiras , Roberto Di Pietro

Previous contact tracing systems required the users to perform many manual actions, such as installing smartphone applications, joining wireless networks, or carrying custom user devices. This increases the barrier to entry and lowers the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-11-07 Brosnan Yuen , Yifeng Bie , Duncan Cairns , Geoffrey Harper , Jason Xu , Charles Chang , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu

In this paper, a simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm for tracking the motion of a pedestrian with a foot-mounted inertial measurement unit (IMU) is proposed. The algorithm uses two maps, namely, a motion map and a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Mostafa Osman , Frida Viset , Manon Kok

Spatial navigation of indoor space usage patterns reveals important cues about the cognitive health of individuals. In this work, we present a low-cost, scalable, open-source edge computing system using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) and…

Sparse wearable inertial measurement units (IMUs) have gained popularity for estimating 3D human motion. However, challenges such as pose ambiguity, data drift, and limited adaptability to diverse bodies persist. To address these issues, we…

Inertial tracking is vital for robotic IoT and has gained popularity thanks to the ubiquity of low-cost inertial measurement units and deep learning-powered tracking algorithms. Existing works, however, have not fully utilized IMU…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Xinzhe Zheng , Sijie Ji , Yipeng Pan , Kaiwen Zhang , Chenshu Wu

As a key enabling technology of the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G communication networks, millimeter wave (mmWave) backscatter has undergone noteworthy advancements and brought significant improvement to prevailing sensing and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Yimiao Sun , Yuan He , Yang Zou , Jiaming Gu , Xiaolei Yang , Jia Zhang , Ziheng Mao

The present paper addresses the task of reliably identifying critical contacts by using COVID-19 tracing apps. A reliable classification is crucial to ensure a high level of protection, and at the same time to prevent many people from being…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-12 Christoph Günther , Daniel Günther

Wi-Fi localization and tracking face accuracy limitations dictated by antenna count (for angle-of-arrival methods) and frequency bandwidth (for time-of-arrival methods). This paper presents mD-Track a device-free Wi-Fi tracking system…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Yaxiong Xie , Jie Xiong , Mo Li , Kyle Jamieson