Motion tracklets are the basic fragments of the track followed by a moving object and constitute various everyday motion behavior. An accurate estimation of motion tracklets in 3-D space can enable a wide range of applications, ranging from human ...

With the rapid development and usage of Internet-of-Things (IoT) and smart-home devices, researchers continue efforts to improve the "smartness" of those devices to address daily needs in people's lives. Such efforts usually begin with understanding ...

The paper presents a novel vision on the application of blockchain technology to empower the dynamic service provisioning in future 6G mobile networks. We propose a platform for decentralized service level agreement (SLA) negotiation between users and ...

Thermal comfort affects the well-being, productivity, and overall satisfaction of building occupants. However, due to economical and practical limitations, the number of longitudinal studies that have been conducted is limited, and only a few of these ...

Recent years have witnessed sensors becoming an indispensable part of our life with the camera being one of the most popular and widely deployed sensors. The camera gives rise to numerous vision-based IoT applications that generate high-level ...

Users are surrounded by sensors that are available through various devices beyond their smartphones. However, these sensors are not fully utilized by current end-user applications. A key reason sensor use is so limited is that application developers ...

We are witnessing a trend of users owning multiple data-generating wearable and IoT devices that continuously capture sensor data pertaining to a user's activities and context. Federated Learning is a potential technique to derive meaningful insights ...

Edge video analytics based on deep learning has become an important building block for many modern intelligent applications such as mobile augmented reality and autonomous driving. Various mechanisms have been developed to handle dynamic wireless ...

Tiny spy cameras hidden in everyday objects are continuing to pose severe privacy threats to the general public as these cameras are often placed in sensitive locations such as hotels and restroom stalls. Commercially available "hidden camera detectors" ...

Radio Frequency (RF) energy transfer is an emerging technology to supply perpetually the new generation of internet of things devices. The proposed work shows the design and implementation of RF power transmission circuits the possible usages as a power ...

Airflow energy harvesting has attracted much attention in the community of energy harvesting, but the efforts to make it accessible for individual users have been limited. In this paper, we address this issue and demonstrate a comprehensive toolkit, ...

The ECCO-Box is a framework to establish connectivity of heterogeneous devices and sensors and distribute computing on the computing continuum dynamically at runtime. The goal of the dissertation is to design an architecture concept and develop a ...

Monitoring the compliance of social distancing is critical for schools and offices to recover in-person operations in indoor spaces from the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing systems focus on vision- and wearable-based sensing approaches, which require direct ...

Range Of Motion (ROM) of joints is a key biomarker in assessing the osteokinematics of muskuloskeletal system. Goniometry of ROM is effected by orthopaedists through manual measurement using medical grade goniometers. Such measurement requires personal ...

Smartphone indoor location awareness is increasingly demanded by a variety of mobile applications. The existing solutions for accurate smartphone indoor localization rely on additional devices or pre-installed infrastructure (e.g., dense WiFi access ...

Strength training is essential for both physical and mental well-being. Muscular mass and strength gain can help with weight loss, balance improvement, and fall prevention. The neuromuscular connection, or mind-muscle connection, is critical for ...

Human respiration monitoring acts as a crucial role to indicate people's daily health. Compared with traditional respiration monitoring methods, device-free wireless respiration sensing technology is emerging as a promising modality due to the less ...

Distracted driving has become a serious problem for traffic safety with the increasing number of fatalities every year. Existing systems have shortcomings of requiring additional hardware or vehicle motion data separation. Moreover, the excessive use of ...

Virtual Reality (VR) training is an emerging method, which is widely deployed in more and more applications. Compared with traditional physical training and video games-based training, VR training can not only provide a sense of realism and immersion ...

Playing is an essential way for preschoolers to learn. There are three types of games for preschoolers: functional play, constructive play, and symbolic play. However, existing works/games can only work for one specific type of children's play. ...