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48 results for sensor accuracy

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.

Synthesizes sensor likelihoods to enforce accuracy constraints in uncertain systems.

problem Designing sensing architectures for systems with uncertain or unavailable sensor models and accuracy requirements.
method Inverts the design flow, synthesizing measurement likelihoods that minimize Kullback-Leibler divergence from the prior while enforcing an accuracy bound.
result The method synthesizes a maximum-entropy posterior and induced likelihood, accommodating various discrepancy metrics.

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.

Sensitive inferences and user re-identification are major threats to privacy when raw sensor data from wearable or portable devices are shared with cloud-assisted applications. To mitigate these threats, we propose mechanisms to transform sensor data before sharing them with applications running on users' devices. Thes…

2019-11-14abs ↗pdf ↗

Stochastic methods improve data assimilation with high-frequency sensor data.

problem Computational challenges in data assimilation with high-frequency sensor data.
method Adapted stochastic approximation methods to handle high-frequency observations.
result Produces high-quality estimates using all observations without compromising statistical accuracy.

AOPU stabilizes NN training by approximating natural gradient, improving stability and convergence.

problem Stability and interpretability in online NN training for industrial soft sensors.
method AOPU truncates gradient backpropagation, optimizing trackable parameters, and approximating natural gradient.
result AOPU achieves stable convergence and superior performance on chemical process datasets.

Motion sensors such as accelerometers and gyroscopes measure the instant acceleration and rotation of a device, in three dimensions. Raw data streams from motion sensors embedded in portable and wearable devices may reveal private information about users without their awareness. For example, motion data might disclose …

2018-10-26abs ↗pdf ↗

Residential homes constitute roughly one-fourth of the total energy usage worldwide. Providing appliance-level energy breakdown has been shown to induce positive behavioral changes that can reduce energy consumption by 15%. Existing approaches for energy breakdown either require hardware installation in every target ho…

2019-09-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Hybrid deep learning model predicts urban floods with high accuracy.

problem Urban flood prediction and situation awareness using channel network sensors data.
method FastGRNN-FCN hybrid deep learning model trained on Harris County, Texas flood data.
result Test accuracy and F-measure reach 97.8% and 0.792, respectively.

In this paper, we present work in progress on activity recognition and prediction in real homes using either binary sensor data or depth video data. We present our field trial and set-up for collecting and storing the data, our methods, and our current results. We compare the accuracy of predicting the next binary sens…

2019-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural networks outperform conventional filters in inertial sensor-based attitude estimation.

problem Limited accuracy in inertial sensor-based attitude estimation due to dynamic and static motion.
method Investigated neural networks versus conventional filters for improving accuracy.
result Neural networks outperform conventional filters only with domain-specific optimizations.

Framework identifies discrepancies in physics models, improving sensor accuracy.

problem Model inaccuracies leading to poor control algorithms.
method Learning systematic state-space residuals and deterministic dynamical errors.
result Improved quantification of system dynamics and control algorithms.

This paper proposes a DGP approach with UCBs for point target tracking over WSNs.

problem Uncertainty quantification in distributed machine learning-based tracking over WSNs.
method Distributed Gaussian process (DGP) approach with upper confidence bounds (UCBs).
result UCBs provide 88% and 42% higher probability of encompassing true target states in X and Y coordinates, respectively.

Study optimizes sensor placement for accurate parameter estimation in complex systems.

problem Challenges in parameter estimation with limited or noisy data.
method Physics-Informed Neural Networks (PINNs) for optimal sensor placement and parameter estimation.
result PINNs-based framework achieves higher accuracy in parameter estimation compared to random sensor placements.

Classification methods based on sparse estimation have drawn much attention recently, due to their effectiveness in processing high-dimensional data such as images. In this paper, a method to improve the performance of a sparse representation classification (SRC) approach is proposed; it is then applied to the problem …

2018-10-22abs ↗pdf ↗

Study improves prediction accuracy and uncertainty for mobile sensor data using randomized neural networks.

problem Improving prediction accuracy and uncertainty for mobile sensor data.
method Cross-validation and uncertainty determination for randomized neural networks.
result Improved out-of-sample performance and confidence intervals for prediction error.

Low-cost sensor fusion for organic substance classification.

problem Non-destructive classification and quality control of organic substances.
method Arduino Mega 2560 microcontroller with three sensors, supervised learning models, hyperparameter tuning, PCA/LDA, ensemble voting classifier.
result Test accuracies of 93-94% for identifying organic compounds.

Monitoring of disasters is crucial for mitigating their effects on the environment and human population, and can be facilitated by the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), equipped with camera sensors that produce aerial photos of the areas of interest. A modern technique for recognition of events based on aerial pho…

2018-07-31abs ↗pdf ↗

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 ↗

Optimizes resource allocation for distributed parameter estimation in sensor networks.

problem Maximizing accuracy in parameter estimation with limited resources.
method Formulates a data collection and collaboration policy design problem as a Fisher information maximization problem. Proposes multi-armed bandit algorithms for learning the optimal policy.
result Identifies optimal data collection and collaboration policies that balance resource use and estimation accuracy.

Study uses GPLFM to create Digital Twin for ferry quay health monitoring.

problem Deterioration of ferry quays due to harsh maritime environments and impacts.
method Gaussian Process Latent Force Model (GPLFM) integrating physics-based model and machine learning.
result GPLFM provides accurate acceleration response estimates, even under simplifying assumptions.

Work addresses long-term accuracy issues in IoT air quality sensors.

problem Limited accuracy of IoT air quality sensors in long-term field deployments.
method Adaptive machine learning strategies for network calibration.
result Prolongs the validity of multisensor calibration models for continuous learning.

Physics-informed denoising improves sensor data accuracy without needing clean data.

problem Noise in real-life sensor data affects system performance and reliability.
method Physics-informed denoising model that uses algebraic relationships between sensor measurements governed by physical laws.
result Achieved state-of-the-art performance in various real-world applications.

Proposes a deep neural network for early disk drive failure prediction.

problem Early prediction of disk drive failure using multivariate time series sensor data.
method Enriched features derived from sensor data through transformations, combined with ensemble learning and deep neural network architecture.
result Significantly improved classification accuracy in predicting disk drive failure.

Recent progress on many imaging and vision tasks has been driven by the use of deep feed-forward neural networks, which are trained by propagating gradients of a loss defined on the final output, back through the network up to the first layer that operates directly on the image. We propose back-propagating one step fur…

2016-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Machine learning classifies Parkinson's Disease stages from walker sensors data.

problem Limited cost-effective methods for quantitatively assessing Parkinson's Disease stages.
method Machine learning applied to walker-mounted sensors data, feature selection methods compared.
result Feature selection method using ANOVA provides similar accuracy to full feature set and is clinically interpretable.