A locally-built, LLM-digested index of recent arXiv papers in quant finance, geometry/topology, and statistical ML — keyword search served straight from SQLite on this machine.
Low-cost sensors improve air quality prediction accuracy significantly.
Surveying low-cost sensors for air quality monitoring and calibration.
This paper analyzes air pollution trends in Rwanda using low-cost sensors and machine learning.
Machine learning improves air pollution predictions in low-cost sensor networks.
RESPIRE calibrates low-cost air-quality sensors for CO levels, resistant to outliers.
Study characterizes PM2.5 dynamics in Bujumbura using low-cost sensors.
DIGIT is a low-cost tactile sensor for in-hand manipulation.
Low-cost sensor fusion for organic substance classification.
Machine learning classifies Parkinson's Disease stages from walker sensors data.
Artificial Neural Network predicts PM2.5 pollution with low-cost sensors.
Batteryless or so called passive wearables are providing new and innovative methods for human activity recognition (HAR), especially in healthcare applications for older people. Passive sensors are low cost, lightweight, unobtrusive and desirably disposable; attractive attributes for healthcare applications in hospital…
The problem of automatic identification of physical activities performed by human subjects is referred to as Human Activity Recognition (HAR). There exist several techniques to measure motion characteristics during these physical activities, such as Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs). IMUs have a cornerstone position in…
New AI method improves anomaly detection across different IIoT sensors.
Power spectral density (PSD) maps providing the distribution of RF power across space and frequency are constructed using power measurements collected by a network of low-cost sensors. By introducing linear compression and quantization to a small number of bits, sensor measurements can be communicated to the fusion cen…
Physics-informed denoising improves sensor data accuracy without needing clean data.
Due to their ubiquitous and pervasive nature, Wi-Fi networks have the potential to collect large-scale, low-cost, and disaggregate data on multimodal transportation. In this study, we develop a semi-supervised deep residual network (ResNet) framework to utilize Wi-Fi communications obtained from smartphones for the pur…
Study compares geostatistical and machine learning models for PM2.5 prediction.
The present study provides a comparative assessment of non-invasive sensors as means of estimating the microbial contamination and time-on-shelf (i.e. storage time) of leafy green vegetables, using a novel unified spectra analysis workflow. Two fresh ready-to-eat green salads were used in the context of this study for …
Work addresses long-term accuracy issues in IoT air quality sensors.
In a number of situations, collecting a function value for every data point may be prohibitively expensive, and random sampling ignores any structure in the underlying data. We introduce a scalable optimization algorithm with no correction steps (in contrast to Frank-Wolfe and its variants), a variant of gradient ascen…
Study predicts stream turbidity using surrogate data and meta-model.
A deep learning algorithm designs low-cost SPP films.
Paper presents a data preprocessing method for PHM models.
In modern building infrastructures, the chance to devise adaptive and unsupervised data-driven health monitoring systems is gaining in popularity due to the large availability of big data from low-cost sensors with communication capabilities and advanced modeling tools such as Deep Learning. The main purpose of this pa…
Paper presents a low-cost algorithm for bipartite ranking with improved sample size requirements.
While the backpropagation of error algorithm enables deep neural network training, it implies (i) bidirectional synaptic weight transport and (ii) update locking until the forward and backward passes are completed. Not only do these constraints preclude biological plausibility, but they also hinder the development of l…
This paper presents a novel formulation and solution of orbit determination over finite time horizons as a learning problem. We present an approach to orbit determination under very broad conditions that are satisfied for n-body problems. These weak conditions allow us to perform orbit determination with noisy and high…
Since 2006, deep learning (DL) has become a rapidly growing research direction, redefining state-of-the-art performances in a wide range of areas such as object recognition, image segmentation, speech recognition and machine translation. In modern manufacturing systems, data-driven machine health monitoring is gaining …
Designing of touchless user interface is gaining popularity in various contexts. Using such interfaces, users can interact with electronic devices even when the hands are dirty or non-conductive. Also, user with partial physical disability can interact with electronic devices using such systems. Research in this direct…
The use of photoplethysmogram signal (PPG) for heart and sleep monitoring is commonly found nowadays in smartphones and wrist wearables. Besides common usages, it has been proposed and reported that person information can be extracted from PPG for other uses, like biometry tasks. In this work, we explore several end-to…
Deep learning on an edge device requires energy efficient operation due to ever diminishing power budget. Intentional low quality data during the data acquisition for longer battery life, and natural noise from the low cost sensor degrade the quality of target output which hinders adoption of deep learning on an edge d…
This paper surveys differential privacy methods for transportation spatiotemporal data.
The multimodal web elements such as text and images are associated with inherent memory costs to store and transfer over the Internet. With the limited network connectivity in developing countries, webpage rendering gets delayed in the presence of high-memory demanding elements such as images (relative to text). To ove…
This work builds a sensor graph from DC sensors for anomaly detection.
We study the problem of black-box optimization of a noisy function in the presence of low-cost approximations or fidelities, which is motivated by problems like hyper-parameter tuning. In hyper-parameter tuning evaluating the black-box function at a point involves training a learning algorithm on a large data-set at a …
Study assesses CNN model robustness to noise in low-cost CT scans.
MUMBO optimizes multiple tasks efficiently, even with low-cost related functions.
Proposes a neural network for handling multi-sensor time series with varying input dimensions.
A low-cost, robust, and simple mechanism to measure hemoglobin would play a critical role in the modern health infrastructure. Consistent sample acquisition has been a long-standing technical hurdle for photometer-based portable hemoglobin detectors which rely on micro cuvettes and dry chemistry. Any particulates (e.g.…
Improved DOA estimation with distributed sensors across multiple frequencies.
Paper presents a WiFi-based indoor sensor localization technique.
In this paper, we present a framework to control a self-driving car by fusing raw information from RGB images and depth maps. A deep neural network architecture is used for mapping the vision and depth information, respectively, to steering commands. This fusion of information from two sensor sources allows to provide …
We address the two fundamental problems of spatial field reconstruction and sensor selection in heterogeneous sensor networks: (i) how to efficiently perform spatial field reconstruction based on measurements obtained simultaneously from networks with both high and low quality sensors; and (ii) how to perform query bas…
ConvGNP improves sensor placement for climate monitoring.
Sensor drift is a well-known issue in the field of sensors and measurement and has plagued the sensor community for many years. In this paper, we propose a sensor drift correction method to deal with the sensor drift problem. Specifically, we propose a discriminative subspace projection approach for sensor drift reduct…
This paper designs sensor arrays for estimating unsteady flows efficiently.
Optimizes seismic monitoring networks using Bayesian OED.
Robots rely on sensors to provide them with information about their surroundings. However, high-quality sensors can be extremely expensive and cost-prohibitive. Thus many robotic systems must make due with lower-quality sensors. Here we demonstrate via a case study how modeling a sensor can improve its efficacy when em…