{"title":"CornerRadar: RF-Based Indoor Localization Around Corners","authors":"Shichao Yue, Hao He, Peng-Xia Cao, Kaiwen Zha, Masayuki Koizumi, D. Katabi","doi":"10.1145/3517226","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3517226","url":null,"abstract":"Unmanned robots are increasingly used around humans in factories, malls, and hotels. As they navigate our space, it is important to ensure that such robots do not collide with people who suddenly appear as they turn a corner. Today, however, there is no practical solution for localizing people around corners. Optical solutions try to track hidden people through their visible shadows on the floor or a sidewall, but they can easily fail depending on the ambient light and the environment. More recent work has considered the use of radio frequency (RF) signals to track people and vehicles around street corners. However, past RF-based proposals rely on a simplistic ray-tracing model that fails in practical indoor scenarios. This paper introduces CornerRadar, an RF-based method that provides accurate around-corner indoor localization. CornerRadar addresses the limitations of the ray-tracing model used in past work. It does so through a novel encoding of how RF signals bounce off walls and occlusions. The encoding, which we call the hint map , is then fed to a neural network along with the radio signals to localize people around corners. Empirical evaluation with people moving around corners in 56 indoor environments shows that CornerRadar achieves a median error that is 3x to 12x smaller than past RF-based solutions for localizing people around corners.","PeriodicalId":20463,"journal":{"name":"Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79481741","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":"TransFloor: Transparent Floor Localization for Crowdsourcing Instant Delivery","authors":"Zhiqing Xie, Haiyong Luo, Xiaotian Zhang, Hao Xiong, Fang Zhao, Zhaohui Li, Qi Ye, Bojie Rong, Jiuchong Gao","doi":"10.1145/3569470","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569470","url":null,"abstract":"Smart on-demand delivery services require accurate indoor localization to enhance the system-human synergy experience of couriers in complex multi-story malls and platform construction. Floor localization is an essential part of indoor positioning, which can provide floor/altitude data support for upper-level 3D indoor navigation services (e.g., delivery route planning) to improve delivery efficiency and optimize order dispatching strategies. We argue that due to label dependence and device dependence, the existing floor localization methods cannot be flexibly deployed on a large scale in numerous multi-story malls across the country, nor can they apply to all couriers/users on the platform. This paper proposes a novel self-evolving and user-transparent floor localization system named TransFloor , based on crowdsourcing delivery data (e.g., order status and sensors data) without additional label investment and specialized equipment constraints. TransFloor consists of an unsupervised barometer-based module– IOD-TKPD and an NLP-inspired Wi-Fi-based module– Wifi2Vec , and Self-Labeling is a perfect bridge between both to completely achieve label-free and device-independent floor positioning. In addition, TransFloor is designed as a lightweight plugin embedded into the platform without refactoring the existing architecture, and it has been deployed nationwide to adaptively launch real-time accurate 3D/floor positioning services for numerous crowdsourcing couriers. We evaluate TransFloor on real-world records from an instant delivery platform (involving 672,282 orders, 7,390 couriers, and 6,206","PeriodicalId":20463,"journal":{"name":"Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80413889","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":"VULoc: Accurate UWB Localization for Countless Targets without Synchronization","authors":"Jing Yang, Baishun Dong, Jiliang Wang","doi":"10.1145/3550286","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3550286","url":null,"abstract":"Ultra-WideBand (UWB) localization has shown promising prospects in both academia and industry. However, accurate UWB localization for a large number of tags (i.e., targets) is still an open problem. Existing works usually require tedious time synchronization and labor-intensive calibrations. We present VULoc, an accurate UWB localization system with high scalability for an unlimited number of targets, which significantly reduces synchronization and calibration overhead. The key idea of VULoc is an accurate localization method based on passive reception without time synchronization. Specifically, we propose a novel virtual -Two Way Ranging (V-TWR) method to enable accurate localization for an unlimited number of tags. We theoretically analyze the performance of our method and show its superiority. We leverage redundant ranging packets among anchors with known positions to infer a range mapping for auto-calibration, which eliminates the ranging bias arising from the hardware and multipath issues. We finally design an anchor scheduling algorithm, which estimates reception quality for adaptive anchor selection to minimize the influence of NLOS. We implement VULoc with DW1000 chips and extensively evaluate its performance in various environments. The results show that VULoc can achieve accurate localization with a median error of 10.5 cm and 90% error of 15.7 cm, reducing the error of ATLAS (an open-source TDOA-based UWB localization system) by 57.6% while supporting countless targets with no synchronization and low calibration overhead.","PeriodicalId":20463,"journal":{"name":"Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82541267","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}
Zongjian Liu, Jieling He, Jianjiang Feng, Jie Zhou
{"title":"PrinType: Text Entry via Fingerprint Recognition","authors":"Zongjian Liu, Jieling He, Jianjiang Feng, Jie Zhou","doi":"10.1145/3569491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3569491","url":null,"abstract":"A 12-person user study was conducted to evaluate the performance of different strategies. Our user evaluation showed that participants achieved an average of 29.56, 32.38, and 34.22 WPM with 0.79%, 0.20%, and 0.21% not corrected error rate in the three strategies. In addition, we provided a detailed analysis of various micro metrics to further understand user performance and technical characteristics. Overall, PrinType is favored by users for its usability, efficiency, and novelty.","PeriodicalId":20463,"journal":{"name":"Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86577279","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":"DiverSense: Maximizing Wi-Fi Sensing Range Leveraging Signal Diversity","authors":"LI YANG","doi":"10.1145/3536393","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3536393","url":null,"abstract":"The ubiquity of Wi-Fi infrastructure has facilitated the development of a range of Wi-Fi based sensing applications. Wi-Fi sensing relies on weak signal reflections from the human target and thus only supports a limited sensing range, which significantly hinders the real-world deployment of the proposed sensing systems. To extend the sensing range, traditional algorithms focus on suppressing the noise introduced by the imperfect Wi-Fi hardware. This paper picks a different direction and proposes to enhance the quality of the sensing signal by fully exploiting the signal diversity provided by the Wi-Fi hardware. We propose DiverSense, a system that combines sensing signal received from all subcarriers and all antennas in the array, to fully utilize the spatial and frequency diversity. To guarantee the diversity gain after signal combining, we also propose a time-diversity based signal alignment algorithm to align the phase of the multiple received sensing signals. We implement the proposed methods in a respiration monitoring system using commodity Wi-Fi devices and evaluate the performance in diverse environments. Extensive experimental results demonstrate that DiverSense is able to accurately monitor the human respiration even when the sensing signal is under noise floor, and therefore boosts sensing range to 40 meters , which is a 3 × improvement over the current state-of-the-art. DiverSense also works robustly under NLoS scenarios, e.g. , DiverSense is able to accurately monitor respiration even when the human and the Wi-Fi transceivers are separated by two concrete walls with wooden doors. between transceivers and the distance between transceivers is 11m. We close the door during the experiment. We ask the subject to sit in Room A (S1, S3, S4, S5) and breath normally. Results show that the mean absolute error is 0.15bpm, 0.09bpm, 0.16bpm, 0.22bpm, respectively. We then move Tx to T5 and there are","PeriodicalId":20463,"journal":{"name":"Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84460485","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}
Kyuin Lee, Yucheng Yang, Omkar Prabhune, Aishwarya Lekshmi Chithra, Jack West, Kassem Fawaz, Neil Klingensmith, Suman Banerjee, Younghyun Kim
{"title":"AEROKEY: Using Ambient Electromagnetic Radiation for Secure and Usable Wireless Device Authentication","authors":"Kyuin Lee, Yucheng Yang, Omkar Prabhune, Aishwarya Lekshmi Chithra, Jack West, Kassem Fawaz, Neil Klingensmith, Suman Banerjee, Younghyun Kim","doi":"10.1145/3517254","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3517254","url":null,"abstract":"Wireless connectivity is becoming common in increasingly diverse personal devices, enabling various interoperation- and Internet-based applications and services. More and more interconnected devices are simultaneously operated by a single user with short-lived connections, making usable device authentication methods imperative to ensure both high security and seamless user experience. Unfortunately, current authentication methods that heavily require human involvement, in addition to form factor and mobility constraints, make this balance hard to achieve, often forcing users to choose between security and convenience. In this work, we present a novel over-the-air device authentication scheme named AeroKey that achieves both high security and high usability. With virtually no hardware overhead, AeroKey leverages ubiquitously observable ambient electromagnetic radiation to autonomously generate spatiotemporally unique secret that can be derived only by devices that are closely located to each other. Devices can make use of this unique secret to form the basis of a symmetric key, making the authentication procedure more practical, secure and usable with no active human involvement. We propose and implement essential techniques to overcome challenges in realizing AeroKey on low-cost microcontroller units, such as poor time synchronization, lack of precision analog front-end, and inconsistent sampling rates. Our real-world experiments demonstrate reliable authentication as well as its robustness against various realistic adversaries with low equal-error rates of 3.4% or less and usable authentication time of as low as 24 s. .","PeriodicalId":20463,"journal":{"name":"Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82197084","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":"WiNE: Monitoring Microwave Oven Leakage to Estimate Food Nutrients and Calorie","authors":"A. Banerjee, K. Srinivasan","doi":"10.1145/3550313","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3550313","url":null,"abstract":"Food analytic and estimation of food nutrients have an increasing demand in recent years to monitor and control food intake and calorie consumption by individuals. Microwave ovens have recently replaced conventional cooking methods due to efficient and quick heating and cooking techniques. Users estimate the food nutrient composition by using some lookup information for each of the food’s ingredients or by using applications that map the picture of the food to their pre-defined dataset. These techniques are often time-consuming and not in real-time and thus can result in low accuracy. In this paper, we present WiNE , a system that introduces a new technique to estimate food nutrient composition and calorie content in real-time using microwave radiation. Our system monitors microwave oven leakage in the time and frequency domains and estimates the percentage of nutrients (carbohydrate, fat, protein, and water) present in the food. To evaluate the real-world performance of WiNE, we build a prototype using software-defined radios and conducted experiments on various food items using household microwave ovens. WiNE can estimate the food nutrient composition with a mean absolute error of ≤ 5% and the calorie content of the food with a high correlation of ∼ 0.97. and time-frequency domains.","PeriodicalId":20463,"journal":{"name":"Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88768100","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}
Wei Sun, Yuwen Chen, Yanjun Chen, Xiaopeng Zhang, Simon Zhan, Yixin Li, Jie Wu, Teng Han, Haipeng Mi, Jingxian Wang, Feng Tian, Xing-Dong Yang
{"title":"MicroFluID: A Multi-Chip RFID Tag for Interaction Sensing Based on Microfluidic Switches","authors":"Wei Sun, Yuwen Chen, Yanjun Chen, Xiaopeng Zhang, Simon Zhan, Yixin Li, Jie Wu, Teng Han, Haipeng Mi, Jingxian Wang, Feng Tian, Xing-Dong Yang","doi":"10.1145/3550296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3550296","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":20463,"journal":{"name":"Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84139591","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}
Brice Parilusyan, M. Teyssier, Valentin Martinez-Missir, Clément Duhart, Marcos Serrano
{"title":"Sensurfaces: A Novel Approach for Embedded Touch Sensing on Everyday Surfaces","authors":"Brice Parilusyan, M. Teyssier, Valentin Martinez-Missir, Clément Duhart, Marcos Serrano","doi":"10.1145/3534616","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3534616","url":null,"abstract":"Ubiquitous touch sensing surfaces are largely influenced by touchscreens’ look and feel and fail to express the physical richness of existing surrounding materials. We introduce Sensurfaces , a plug-and-play electronic module that allows to rapidly experiment with touch-sensitive surfaces while preserving the original appearance of materials. Sensurfaces is composed of plug-and-play modules that can be connected together to expand the size and number of materials composing a sensitive surface. The combination of Sensurfaces modules allows the creation of small or large multi-material sensitive surfaces that can detect multi-touch but also body proximity, pose, pass, or even human steps. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of Sensurfaces . We propose a design space describing the factors of Sensurfaces interfaces. Then, through a series of technical evaluations, we demonstrate the capabilities of our system. Finally, we report on two workshops validating the usability of our system.","PeriodicalId":20463,"journal":{"name":"Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82744526","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}
H. Ding, Yizhan Wang, Hao Li, Cui Zhao, Ge Wang, Wei Xi, Jizhong Zhao
{"title":"UltraSpeech: Speech Enhancement by Interaction between Ultrasound and Speech","authors":"H. Ding, Yizhan Wang, Hao Li, Cui Zhao, Ge Wang, Wei Xi, Jizhong Zhao","doi":"10.1145/3550303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3550303","url":null,"abstract":"Speech enhancement can bene � t lots of practical voice-based interaction applications, where the goal is to generate clean speech from noisy ambient conditions. This paper presents a practical design, namely UltraSpeech, to enhance speech by exploring the correlation between the ultrasound (pro � led articulatory gestures) and speech. UltraSpeech uses a commodity smartphone to emit the ultrasound and collect the composed acoustic signal for analysis. We design a complex masking framework to deal with complex-valued spectrograms, incorporating the magnitude and phase recti � cation of speech simultaneously. We further introduce an interaction module to share information between ultrasound and speech two branches and thus enhance their discrimination capabilities. Extensive experiments demonstrate that UltraSpeech increases the Scale Invariant SDR by 12dB, improves the speech intelligibility and quality e � ectively, and is capable to generalize to unknown speakers.","PeriodicalId":20463,"journal":{"name":"Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol.","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81310907","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}