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48 results for Wrist Worn Sensors

Improved heart rate and activity recognition with low-power wrist sensors.

problem Challenges in battery life, cost, and sensor performance in wrist-worn sensing applications.
method Used photoplethysmography (PPG) for heart rate and activity recognition, applying transfer learning and CNNs.
result Low sampling frequencies (5 Hz and 10 Hz) achieved good performance in heart rate and activity recognition.

Deep learning models accurately recognize and estimate physical activity types and energy expenditure from wrist accelerometer data.

problem Rigorous evaluation of wrist-worn accelerometers for assessing physical activity across the lifespan.
method Built deep learning networks to extract spatial and temporal representations from time-series data, recognizing physical activity types and estimating energy expenditure.
result Deep learning models achieved high performance: F1 scores of 0.82, 0.81, and 95 for sedentary, locomotor, and lifestyle activities, respectively; root mean square error of 1.1 for EE estimation.

Wearables like smartwatches which are embedded with sensors and powerful processors, provide a strong platform for development of analytics solutions in sports domain. To analyze players' games, while motion sensor based shot detection has been extensively studied in sports like Tennis, Golf, Baseball; Table Tennis and…

2018-05-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Automatic conflict detection has grown in relevance with the advent of body-worn technology, but existing metrics such as turn-taking and overlap are poor indicators of conflict in police-public interactions. Moreover, standard techniques to compute them fall short when applied to such diversified and noisy contexts. W…

2017-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Body-worn cameras are now commonly used for logging daily life, sports, and law enforcement activities, creating a large volume of archived footage. This paper studies the problem of classifying frames of footage according to the activity of the camera-wearer with an emphasis on application to real-world police body-wo…

2019-04-19abs ↗pdf ↗

DeepBeat uses deep learning to assess signal quality and detect arrhythmia in wearable devices.

problem Detecting atrial fibrillation from wearable devices with noise.
method Multi-task deep learning approach using convolutional denoising autoencoders.
result Significantly improved AF detection accuracy compared to traditional methods.

The paper presents a method to reduce arm motion complexity for prosthetics and robotics.

problem Reducing the complexity of human arm motions for robotic and prosthetic control.
method Data-driven techniques including DTW, DBA, Ward's distance, batch-DTW, and fPCA.
result Representative motion clusters and averages for different arm DOF levels.

A framework to quantify deployment risk in ML systems, especially for rare states.

problem Under-supported rare states in ML models lead to unreliable performance in unseen data.
method Blind-Spot Mass (B_n(tau)) using Good-Turing unseen-species estimation.
result Identifies and quantifies the risk of under-supported states in ML models.

Study uses PPG signals for detecting speech events and speaker characteristics.

problem Detecting speech events and speaker characteristics from PPG signals.
method End-to-end convolutional neural network architectures for gender and person verification.
result Promising results showing potential of PPG for speech processing tasks.

Body-worn video (BWV) cameras are increasingly utilized by police departments to provide a record of police-public interactions. However, large-scale BWV deployment produces terabytes of data per week, necessitating the development of effective computational methods to identify salient changes in video. In work carried…

2016-10-20abs ↗pdf ↗

With the increasing availability of wearable devices, continuous monitoring of individuals' physiological and behavioral patterns has become significantly more accessible. Access to these continuous patterns about individuals' statuses offers an unprecedented opportunity for studying complex diseases and health conditi…

2019-07-29abs ↗pdf ↗

This work builds a sensor graph from DC sensors for anomaly detection.

problem Anomaly detection in data centers with complex sensor relationships.
method Data-driven pipeline (ts2graph) to build a sensor graph from sensor time series.
result Graph neural network (GNN) outperforms existing methods by 2-3 times in anomaly detection.

This work enables privacy-preserving model learning from single samples per client.

problem Learning from devices with only one sample each, especially in early rounds.
method Injects a single, calibrated noisy perturbation to transform data, then aggregates and processes for unbiased gradient update.
result Enables accurate, privacy-preserving model learning from devices with limited data.

Proposes a neural network for handling multi-sensor time series with varying input dimensions.

problem Handling multi-sensor time series with varying input dimensions.
method Graph neural network conditioning vectors for zero-shot transfer learning.
result Better generalization in activity recognition and equipment prognostics datasets.

RESPIRE calibrates low-cost air-quality sensors for CO levels, resistant to outliers.

problem Calibrating LCAQ sensors against regulatory-grade monitors is expensive and time-consuming.
method PROvably outlier-resistant semi-parametric regression technique.
result RESPIRE offers improved prediction in cross-site, cross-season, and cross-sensor settings.

New methods for inferring, predicting, and estimating continuous-time, discrete-event processes.

problem Inferring, predicting, and estimating entropy rate of continuous-time, discrete-event processes.
method Bayesian structural inference extended with neural networks.
result Methods are competitive for prediction and entropy-rate estimation with state-of-the-art.

Low-cost sensors improve air quality prediction accuracy significantly.

problem Improving air quality monitoring networks with affordable sensors.
method Developed a high-resolution air quality prediction engine using low-cost sensors and official data.
result The use of low-cost sensors improves prediction accuracy by 25% and 15% for PM2.5 and PM10 respectively in densely monitored areas.

Improved DOA estimation with distributed sensors across multiple frequencies.

problem Sensor gain uncertainties and directional perturbations in multi-frequency scenarios.
method Distributed optimization with local coherence models and iterative exchange of information.
result Advantages in statistical and computational efficiency through parallel iterative 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 …

2019-02-12abs ↗pdf ↗

ConvGNP improves sensor placement for climate monitoring.

problem Maximizing informativeness of environmental sensor placements in remote regions.
method Convolutional Gaussian neural processes (ConvGNP) for non-stationary spatial predictions.
result ConvGNP outperforms traditional GP models in predicting sensor performance and reducing uncertainty.

This paper designs sensor arrays for estimating unsteady flows efficiently.

problem Estimating high-dimensional unsteady flow fields with limited sensor placement.
method Combines data-driven modeling, Kalman Filter design, and sparsification for sensor selection.
result Proposed sensor arrays are highly effective for flow-field estimation across various conditions.

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…

2013-03-18abs ↗pdf ↗

In recent years, multi-modal fusion has attracted a lot of research interest, both in academia, and in industry. Multimodal fusion entails the combination of information from a set of different types of sensors. Exploiting complementary information from different sensors, we show that target detection and classificatio…

2019-06-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Adversarial perturbations fool wearable sensor systems, showing transferability across different systems.

problem Adversarial examples fool wearable sensor systems, showing transferability across different systems.
method Study of adversarial transferability in wearable sensor systems from four perspectives: systems, subjects, sensor body locations, and datasets.
result Strong untargeted transferability in most cases, targeted attacks less successful.

Predicts traffic flow using reinforcement learning and sensor data.

problem Accurately predict expanding and evolving long-term streaming traffic networks.
method Formulates the problem as a continuous reinforcement learning task, where the agent predicts future traffic based on sensor data.
result The approach improves accuracy in predicting traffic flow by updating the agent's state representation over time.

Deep RL optimizes sensor placement in digital twins for dynamic data acquisition.

problem Limited applicability of traditional sensor placement techniques for online applications.
method Formulates sensor placement as a Markov decision process and uses deep reinforcement learning.
result Improves predictive accuracy and reliability of digital twins through adaptive sensor repositioning.

Multimodal learning has been lacking principled ways of combining information from different modalities and learning a low-dimensional manifold of meaningful representations. We study multimodal learning and sensor fusion from a latent variable perspective. We first present a regularized recurrent attention filter for …

2019-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Weather balloons deploy sensors to collect stratospheric data.

problem Limited data collection in the stratosphere.
method Modeling forecast deviation as a Gaussian process to determine sensor release times; novel hardware system for optimal sensor release.
result Data engineering framework effectively collects stratospheric data through real flights and simulations.

The paper optimizes sensor selection for network time series data.

problem Optimizing sensor selection for network time series data with minimal error.
method Data-driven strategies to turn off sensors or select a sampling set of nodes.
result Proposes and compares various data-driven strategies for sensor selection.