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Wi-Fi sensing technology enables non-intrusive, continuous monitoring of user locations and activities, which supports diverse smart home applications. Since different sensing tasks exhibit contextual relationships, their integration can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Mengning Li , Wenye Wang

As the population ages rapidly, long-term care (LTC) facilities across North America face growing pressure to monitor residents safely while keeping staff workload manageable. Falls are among the most critical events to monitor due to their…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-27 Huy Trinh , Phuong Thai , Elliot Creager , George Shaker

This paper considers the problem of detecting a high dimensional signal (not necessarily sparse) based on compressed measurements with physical layer secrecy guarantees. First, we propose a collaborative compressive detection (CCD)…

Applications · Statistics 2015-02-19 Bhavya Kailkhura , Thakshila Wimalajeewa , Pramod K. Varshney

Automatic fall detection is a vital technology for ensuring the health and safety of people. Home-based camera systems for fall detection often put people's privacy at risk. Thermal cameras can partially or fully obfuscate facial features,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Vineet Mehta , Abhinav Dhall , Sujata Pal , Shehroz S. Khan

WiFi sensing has emerged as a compelling contactless modality for human activity monitoring by capturing fine-grained variations in Channel State Information (CSI). Its ability to operate continuously and non-intrusively while preserving…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-21 Guozhen Zhu , Yuqian Hu , Weihang Gao , Wei-Hsiang Wang , Beibei Wang , K. J. Ray Liu

Vision-based methods are commonly used in robotic arm activity recognition. These approaches typically rely on line-of-sight (LoS) and raise privacy concerns, particularly in smart home applications. Passive Wi-Fi sensing represents a new…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Rojin Zandi , Kian Behzad , Elaheh Motamedi , Hojjat Salehinejad , Milad Siami

Collaborative localization is an essential capability for a team of robots such as connected vehicles to collaboratively estimate object locations from multiple perspectives with reliant cooperation. To enable collaborative localization,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Peng Gao , Brian Reily , Rui Guo , Hongsheng Lu , Qingzhao Zhu , Hao Zhang

As next-generation networks materialize, increasing levels of intelligence are required. Federated Learning has been identified as a key enabling technology of intelligent and distributed networks; however, it is prone to concept drift as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-07 Dimitrios Michael Manias , Ibrahim Shaer , Li Yang , Abdallah Shami

Collaborative state estimation using different heterogeneous sensors is a fundamental prerequisite for robotic swarms operating in GPS-denied environments, posing a significant research challenge. In this paper, we introduce a centralized…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-26 Shipeng Zhong , Hongbo Chen , Yuhua Qi , Dapeng Feng , Zhiqiang Chen , Jin Wu , Weisong Wen , Ming Liu

With the rise of hailing services, people are increasingly relying on shared mobility (e.g., Uber, Lyft) drivers to pick up for transportation. However, such drivers and riders have difficulties finding each other in urban areas as GPS…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-01-05 Sirajum Munir , Hongkai Chen , Shiwei Fang , Mahathir Monjur , Shan Lin , Shahriar Nirjon

Environmental sensing is an important research topic in the integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) system. Current works often focus on static environments, such as buildings and terrains. However, dynamic factors like rainfall can…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-24 Pengfei Shi , Fei Shang , Haohua Du

Human motion detection is getting considerable attention in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) driven healthcare systems. Human motion can be used to provide remote healthcare solutions for vulnerable people by identifying particular…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-07 William Taylor , Syed Aziz Shah , Kia Dashtipour , Adnan Zahid , Qammer H. Abbasi , Muhammad Ali Imran

Platoons of autonomous vehicles are being investigated as a way to increase road capacity and fuel efficiency. Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is an approach to achieve such platoons, in which vehicles collaborate using wireless…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-09 Twan Keijzer , Riccardo M. G. Ferrari

This paper proposes a framework that combines online human state estimation, action recognition and motion prediction to enable early assessment and prevention of worker biomechanical risk during lifting tasks. The framework leverages the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-01-12 Cheng Guo , Lorenzo Rapetti , Kourosh Darvish , Riccardo Grieco , Francesco Draicchio , Daniele Pucci

This paper deals with the problem of detecting fallen people lying on the floor by means of a mobile robot equipped with a 3D depth sensor. In the proposed algorithm, inspired by semantic segmentation techniques, the 3D scene is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-04-09 Morris Antonello , Marco Carraro , Marco Pierobon , Emanuele Menegatti

Inpatient falls are a serious safety issue in hospitals and healthcare facilities. Recent advances in video analytics for patient monitoring provide a non-intrusive avenue to reduce this risk through continuous activity monitoring. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Ziqing Wang , Mohammad Ali Armin , Simon Denman , Lars Petersson , David Ahmedt-Aristizabal

A traffic monitoring system (TMS) is an integral part of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). It is an essential tool for traffic analysis and planning. One of the biggest challenges is, however, the high cost especially in covering…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Myounggyu Won , Sayan Sahu , Kyung-Joon Park

The low-altitude economy is integral to the advancement of numerous sectors, necessitating the development of advanced low-altitude surveillance techniques. Nevertheless, conventional methods encounter limitations of high deployment costs…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhixin Chen , Yixuan Huang , Zhengze Ji , Jie Yang , Shi Jin

With cooperative perception, autonomous vehicles can wirelessly share sensor data and representations to overcome sensor occlusions, improving situational awareness. Securing such data exchanges is crucial for connected autonomous vehicles.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Namo Asavisanu , Tina Khezresmaeilzadeh , Rohan Sequeira , Hang Qiu , Fawad Ahmad , Konstantinos Psounis , Ramesh Govindan

Thanks to the ubiquitousness of Wi-Fi access points and devices, Wi-Fi sensing enables transformative applications in remote health care, security, and surveillance. Existing work has explored the usage of machine learning on channel state…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-21 Niloofar Bahadori , Jonathan Ashdown , Francesco Restuccia