{"title":"Edge-centric Video Surveillance System Based on Event-driven Rate Adaptation for 24-hour Monitoring","authors":"Airi Sakaushi, Kenji Kanai, J. Katto, T. Tsuda","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480272","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480272","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, to sustain a high-quality 24-hour video surveillance (i.e., high reliability) and reduce redundant video traffic volume (i.e., network friendliness), we propose an edge-centric video surveillance system that provides flexible adaptive control of the image enhancement process and video quality based on an event-driven adaptation. In the proposed system, the video bitrate is adaptively controlled according to the contrast of captured videos and conditions in a monitored area (e.g., “normal”, “caution”, and “alert”). To confirm the system performance, we evaluate objective image quality, accuracy of human detection and video traffic volume generated by the proposed system. Evaluations conclude that the system can reduce the video traffic while sustaining high-quality visibility.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126631811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tatsuya Morita, Kenta Taki, Manato Fujimoto, H. Suwa, Yutaka Arakawa, K. Yasumoto
{"title":"BLE Beacon-based Activity Monitoring System toward Automatic Generation of Daily Report","authors":"Tatsuya Morita, Kenta Taki, Manato Fujimoto, H. Suwa, Yutaka Arakawa, K. Yasumoto","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480348","url":null,"abstract":"As the world's population of senior citizens continues to grow, the burdens on the professionals who care for them (carers) are also increasing. In nursing homes, carers need to make a daily report for each resident aiming to improve his/her quality of life. However, in the present understaffed situation, it is difficult and burdensome for carers to record the resident's activity in detail since each carer needs to take care of several residents at the same time. In this paper, we propose an automatic daily report generation system which can monitor the activity of multiple residents in nursing homes. Knowing that important activities such as toilet, bathing, rehabilitation and so on take place in specific areas in a nursing home, it is possible to record residents' activities by tracking their stay areas and movement between the areas within the day. Our proposed system estimates stay areas of multiple residents by machine learning for RSSI values that are sent from BLE beacons attached to residents and received at BLE scanners deployed over multiple areas, and records activities of the residents determined based on their estimated stay areas. The proposed system can also output a daily report of each resident based on the recorded data. We carried out a five-day experiment with four elderly participants in a nursing home and evaluated activity estimation accuracy by leave-one-person-out cross-validation. As a result, our proposed system achieved the weighted average F-measure of 81.6%.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127908968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Activity-Tracking Service For Building Operating Systems","authors":"Jakob Hviid, M. Kjærgaard","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480362","url":null,"abstract":"Many high consuming electricity loads in retail stores are currently highly intertwined in human activities. Without knowledge of such activities, it is difficult to improve the energy efficiency of the loads operation for sustainability and cost reasons. The increasing availability of Internet of Things sensors and devices promise to deliver rich data about human activities and control of loads. However, existing proposals for building operating systems that should combine such data and control opportunities do not provide concepts and support for activity data. In this paper, we propose an activity-tracking service for building operating systems. The service is designed to consider the security, privacy, integration, extendability and scalability challenges in the building setting. We provide initial findings for testing the system in a proof of concept evaluation using a set of common Internet of Things sensors and devices.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"162 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121558860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kazuhito Umeki, Yugo Nakamura, Manato Fujimoto, Yutaka Arakawa, K. Yasumoto
{"title":"Real-Time Congestion Estimation in Sightseeing Spots with BLE Devices","authors":"Kazuhito Umeki, Yugo Nakamura, Manato Fujimoto, Yutaka Arakawa, K. Yasumoto","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480395","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480395","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, there is a growing demand to know con- gestion information on sightseeing spots in real-time to provide a satisfactory tour plan to tourists. Many studies on a congestion estimation have been conducted so far. However, most of them suffer from high deployment/operation costs and/or rely on contributions by users with smartphones/sensors. In this paper, we propose a novel system that estimates congestion of sightseeing spots in real-time without attaching any device to tourists by observing the distribution of per-RSSI intensity occurrences in each time window when beacon signals are periodically sent between BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) transceivers installed in sightseeing spots. In other words, our system can estimate the congestion degree in sightseeing spots simply by using the property of RSSI intensity which dramatically changes depending on the number of people. Therefore, the proposed system is simple and low cost and can estimate the congestion easily without any special devices attached to tourists. In the demonstration, we show the congestion degree in three levels (low, medium, and high) changing in real-time depending on the number of audience in the demonstration site.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"107 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124451618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jaehun Lee, Hochul Lee, Byoungjun Seo, Min Kyung Chae, Young Choon Lee, Hyuck Han, Sooyong Kang
{"title":"SAMD Apps: Install Once, Run Anywhere Instantly","authors":"Jaehun Lee, Hochul Lee, Byoungjun Seo, Min Kyung Chae, Young Choon Lee, Hyuck Han, Sooyong Kang","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480287","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480287","url":null,"abstract":"The capacity and capability of mobile devices continue to increase enabling the emergence of a wide variety of apps that are previously only possible with more powerful computing devices, such as laptops, desktops and even (cloud) servers. However, despite a rich set of resources in today’s mobile devices, the platform-level support for mobile distributed computing remains limited. In this paper, we demonstrate textbf Single Application Multiple Device (SAMD), a mobile platform-level framework designed for “instant” mobile distributed computing. The idea is that the great amounts of mobile devices pervasive in today’s connected world could be harnessed and managed cooperatively for a common objective, such as mobile collaboration. SAMD enables a mobile app to run its portions across multiple devices without the prior installation. We have implemented a proof-of- concept prototype of SAMD on Android and demonstrated the development of two example SAMD apps.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"89 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124231538","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kotone Senju, Teruhiro Mizumoto, H. Suwa, Yutaka Arakawa, K. Yasumoto
{"title":"Designing Strategy for Resolving Maldistribution of Vehicles in One-Way Car-Sharing through Active Trip Request to Potential Users","authors":"Kotone Senju, Teruhiro Mizumoto, H. Suwa, Yutaka Arakawa, K. Yasumoto","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480256","url":null,"abstract":"Recently, one-way car-sharing service that allows a user to drop the vehicle off at the destination has been started. However, it has not been as popular as expected mainly because it cannot assure the existence of an available vehicle at the start station or a vacant parking slot at the destination station. At this moment, the company staff are responsible for moving the vehicles to certain stations manually. Therefore, it is very costly. In order to reduce costs and make more efficient use of vehicles in one-way car-sharing service, we propose to involve a future potential user to move vehicles. We assume that there exist some requested one-way trips. Our method inserts a new trip among the existing trips for maximizing the number of successful trips. This trip is called “a system request trip.” We assume that the system request trip can be realized by changing a future schedule or asking future potential users who want to get some rewards. In this paper, we analyzed how each user uses vehicles in one-way car-sharing service by using the past data of demonstration experiment conducted by a car-sharing company in Tokyo, Japan. Based on the analysis result, we examined how to request each user.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116764106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Inattention-Management Middleware for Human-in-the-Loop Multi-Display Applications","authors":"Max Nicosia, P. Kristensson","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480358","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480358","url":null,"abstract":"Operator inattention is an important and unsolved problem in mission critical multi-display systems where a single or a group of operators continuously monitor information flows on distributed displays. In this paper we present a novel system solution to this problem and a middleware for supporting flexible attention-aware applications for a variety of domains. Some of the most significant functionality includes direct querying of the application’s attention state, custom callback definitions to be executed on specific attention events or application updates, inter-application message routing, and pushing custom notification with relative location information to any other registered application. We evaluate our middleware by developing three applications that both demonstrate the efficacy and versatility of the system and provide performance estimates in terms of latency as a function of payload size.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128227343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. M. Quero, Colin Shewell, I. Cleland, J. Rafferty, C. Nugent, M. Espinilla
{"title":"Computer Vision-Based Gait Velocity from Non-Obtrusive Thermal Vision Sensors","authors":"J. M. Quero, Colin Shewell, I. Cleland, J. Rafferty, C. Nugent, M. Espinilla","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480174","url":null,"abstract":"Gait velocity is an important measure of independence and functional ability to those within the older population. Detecting changes in gait velocity can aid to provide interventions to avoid hospitalisation, currently gait velocity is assessed in a clinical setting, where the patient is timed over a measured distance between 3–6 metres by a clinician, however, this is time consuming, subjective, and not possible to carry out frequently over time. An unobtrusive method of monitoring gait velocity, frequently, over extended periods of time, would therefore be advantageous when developing interventions. This paper proposes an unobtrusive computer vision-based method of continuously monitoring an occupants gait velocity within their own home. This is achieved through the use of a low cost thermal vision sensor. The system was benchmarked against the clinical standard method of being timed by a stopwatch. Results show a high correlation between the gait velocity measured by the thermal vision sensor and the measured stopwatch velocity (R=0.941, p=0.02).","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127464331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
I. Cleland, M. Donnelly, C. Nugent, J. Hallberg, M. Espinilla, M. Garcia-Constantino
{"title":"Collection of a Diverse, Realistic and Annotated Dataset for Wearable Activity Recognition","authors":"I. Cleland, M. Donnelly, C. Nugent, J. Hallberg, M. Espinilla, M. Garcia-Constantino","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480322","url":null,"abstract":"This paper discusses the opportunities and challenges associated with the collection of a large scale, diverse dataset for Activity Recognition. The dataset was collected by 141 undergraduate students, in a controlled environment. Students collected triaxial accelerometer data from a wearable accelerometer whilst each carrying out 3 of the 18 investigated activities, categorized into 6 scenarios of daily living. This data was subsequently labelled, anonymized and uploaded to a shared repository. This paper presents an analysis of data quality, through outlier detection and assesses the suitability of the dataset for the creation and validation of Activity Recognition models. This is achieved through the application of a range of common data driven machine learning approaches. Finally, the paper describes challenges identified during the data collection process and discusses how these could be addressed. Issues surrounding data quality, in particular, identifying and addressing poor calibration of the data were identified. Results highlight the potential of harnessing these diverse data for Activity Recognition. Based on a comparison of six classification approaches, a Random Forest provided the best classification (F-measure: 0.88). In future data collection cycles, participants will be encouraged to collect a set of “common” activities, to support generation of a larger homogeneous dataset. Future work will seek to refine the methodology further and to evaluate model on new unseen data.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121512915","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Activities of Daily Living Ontology for Ubiquitous Systems","authors":"E. Tonkin, Przemyslaw Woznowski","doi":"10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480385","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/PERCOMW.2018.8480385","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitous eHealth systems based on sensor technologies are seen as key enablers in the effort to reduce the financial impact of an ageing society. At the heart of such systems sit activity recognition algorithms, which need sensor data to reason over and a ‘ground truth’ of adequate quality - used for training and validation purposes. The large set up costs of such research projects and their complexity limit rapid developments in this area. Therefore, information sharing and reuse, especially in the context of collected datasets, is key in overcoming these barriers. One approach which facilitates this process by reducing ambiguity is the use of ontologies. This paper presents a hierarchical ontology for activities of daily living (ADL), together with two use cases of ‘ground truth’ acquisition in which this ontology has been successfully utilised. Furthermore, these studies are reflected upon from the machine learning perspective, and the use of this ontology in clinical studies is discussed.","PeriodicalId":190096,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129392686","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}