S. Hara, Takunori Shimazaki, H. Okuhata, I. Shirakawa, H. Yomo
{"title":"A real-time vital sensing system for persons during exercises","authors":"S. Hara, Takunori Shimazaki, H. Okuhata, I. Shirakawa, H. Yomo","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684707","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684707","url":null,"abstract":"Real-time vital sensing for persons during exercises is important for effective physical training, healthcare and injury/disease prevention. We have developed a vital sensor node which can sense heart rate (HR), energy expenditure (EE) and body temperature (BT), and furthermore can transmit the sensed data by wireless in real-time, just by hanging itself with the clip at the rim of undershorts. The vital sensor node utilizes a motion artifact (MA) cancellation technique to accurately sense HR during vigorous exercises and an EE estimation technique by means of a motion sensor to accurately sense EE. In this paper, we outline the essence of the two techniques.","PeriodicalId":408379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129523587","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":"Optimized light output for passive stereoscopic projection in VR-systems","authors":"T. Rossler, Stephan Rogge, C. Hentschel","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684769","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684769","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a simple and effective method to increase the light output in passive stereoscopic projection environments. We realized a processing chain with Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) projectors, taking advantage of the already polarized projector light. Minimizing light losses could be achieved with retarders instead of polarizers in the optical path in combination with changes in the electrical signal path. The efficiency could be greatly improved.","PeriodicalId":408379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin)","volume":"30 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129279851","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":"Improving multimedia streaming from the network's core","authors":"Andreas Schmidt, T. Herfet","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684735","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684735","url":null,"abstract":"In 2015, NetFlix made the headlines with nearly 37% of Internet traffic being caused by their streaming applications1. The trend towards similar applications is further accelerated by increasing number of mobile devices used to consume high resolution video and interact with low latency. Hence, new challenges arise that can no longer be solved by solely altering the network's edge. Software-Defined Networking (SDN) and its most popular incarnation OpenFlow [1] cause a trend towards intelligent devices at the network's core. The end-to-end (E2E) principle, as proposed by Saltzer et al. [2] in 1984 and further discussed by Moors [3] in 2002, is one of the paradigms to be reconsidered in this new world. Theory and practice show that segmenting multiple transmission domains can provide benefits for the overall network performance. Current approaches, as e.g. Split-TCP [4], require changes to the end-hosts and applications to explicitly use this protocol, which can be avoided when using SDN technologies. We propose the novel networking pattern Transparent Transmission Segmentation (TTS) that allows to separate certain domains and lead to better performance, especially in heterogeneous environments. With most of multimedia streaming traffic being transmitted using Dynamic Adaptive Streaming (DASH) [5], it is straightforward to consider TCP transmissions. We identify network functions of TCP that can perform better when segmentation is employed and give a differentiated view on this using simulations measuring transmission times. The evaluation shows that although we have performance degradations of maximally 1% for mean, median and standard deviation for certain scenarios, our approach can achieve more than 14% improvement on certain scenarios and 3 - 10% on most scenarios. This shows that TTS has to be applied thoughtfully, but can provide significant improvements when employed in the scenarios with high loss and jitter.","PeriodicalId":408379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133843309","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":"Real-time gait event detection using a single head-worn inertial measurement unit","authors":"Tong-Hun Hwang, J. Reh, A. Effenberg, H. Blume","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684709","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684709","url":null,"abstract":"A real-time gait event detection based on a single sensor unit fixed onto the head is suggested in this paper. Head acceleration is measured by an inertial measurement unit in order to detect two gait events. When heel strike and toe off occur, the impact is physically generated between the foot and the ground, which are transmitted to the head through the different physiological structures directed to the longitudinal body axis. Although it is damped by body structures such as intervertebral discs, the impact determines the detectable peak in head acceleration. With a threshold and a low pass filter, a peak detection referring to head acceleration is reliable in detection of the gait events. This proposed method can be applied to homebased rehabilitation and daily fitness.","PeriodicalId":408379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127500355","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}
A. Baldini, L. Ciabattoni, R. Felicetti, F. Ferracuti, S. Longhi, A. Monteriù, A. Freddi
{"title":"A novel RSSI based approach for human indoor localization: The Fuzzy Discrete Multilateration","authors":"A. Baldini, L. Ciabattoni, R. Felicetti, F. Ferracuti, S. Longhi, A. Monteriù, A. Freddi","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684767","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper a new algorithm for indoor localization, namely Fuzzy Discrete Multilateration (FDM), is proposed. As the name suggests, it elaborates data from any number of transmitters (anchor nodes), and returns the estimated position of an unknown receiver. Furthermore, two cascade fuzzy inference systems are employed to evaluate the reliability of the data gathered from each beacon. The algorithm has been tested in different real world environments, where the anchor nodes are smart objects and the unknown node is any smart object held by the user to be localized. The performances of our algorithm has been compared with those of three well known localization algorithms (with a beacon density ranging from 0.03 to 0.1 beacon/m2) and results are shown.","PeriodicalId":408379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin)","volume":"308 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114712449","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":"Collaborative work in VR Systems: A software-independent exchange of avatar data","authors":"Ronny Klauck, S. Lorenz, C. Hentschel","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684738","url":null,"abstract":"For the collaborative work in Virtual Reality Systems gestures and emotions of the involved persons need to be visualized exactly and exchanged in near real-time. Using point clouds for the representation of avatars guarantees a high level of detail, but processing these huge data set in real-time requires high computational resources. Furthermore, the exchange of avatars need a software-independent representation.","PeriodicalId":408379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin)","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114617505","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}
C. McGregor, Brendan Bonnis, Brodie Stanfield, Michael Stanfield
{"title":"Design of the ARAIG haptic garment for enhanced resilience assessment and development in tactical training serious games","authors":"C. McGregor, Brendan Bonnis, Brodie Stanfield, Michael Stanfield","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684758","url":null,"abstract":"First person shooter virtual reality games have begun to be used for serious games for military or civilian tactical training for new approaches for resilience assessment and development as part of new approaches for mental health training. However, sensory stimulation has been largely constrained to visual and auditory sensations with limited tactile feedback through haptic controllers. This paper presents a design for the ARAIG haptic garment for enhanced resilience assessment and development in tactical training serious games.","PeriodicalId":408379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130611120","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}
Denis Tomè, L. Bondi, Emanuele Plebani, L. Baroffio, D. Pau, S. Tubaro
{"title":"Reduced memory region based deep Convolutional Neural Network detection","authors":"Denis Tomè, L. Bondi, Emanuele Plebani, L. Baroffio, D. Pau, S. Tubaro","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684706","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684706","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate pedestrian detection has a primary role in automotive safety: for example, by issuing warnings to the driver or acting actively on cars brakes, it helps decreasing the probability of injuries and human fatalities. In order to achieve very high accuracy, recent pedestrian detectors have been based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Unfortunately, such approaches require vast amounts of computational power and memory, preventing efficient implementations on embedded systems. This work proposes a CNN-based detector, adapting a general-purpose convolutional network to the task at hand. By thoroughly analyzing and optimizing each step of the detection pipeline, we develop an architecture that outperforms methods based on traditional image features and achieves an accuracy close to the state-of-the-art while having low computational complexity. Furthermore, the model is compressed in order to fit the tight constrains of low power devices with a limited amount of embedded memory available. This paper makes two main contributions: (1) it proves that a region based deep neural network can be finely tuned to achieve adequate accuracy for pedestrian detection (2) it achieves a very low memory usage without reducing detection accuracy on the Caltech Pedestrian dataset.","PeriodicalId":408379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121554262","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}
Martina Eckert, Ignacio Gómez-Martinho, J. Meneses, José-Fernán Martínez-Ortega
{"title":"A modular middleware approach for exergaming","authors":"Martina Eckert, Ignacio Gómez-Martinho, J. Meneses, José-Fernán Martínez-Ortega","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684747","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684747","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents the design of a new exergaming environment consisting of a modular middleware tool aimed at serving for intelligent adventure games. The middleware provides a modular and user-adaptive interface for data exchange between different devices (to date it supports a motion capture camera, a mobile phone, and a VR headset) and Blender. The target group is formed by young people between ages 6 to 26 with different physical diseases (muscular dystrophy, cerebral palsy, accidents, etc.). The gaming environment focuses especially on user awareness, immersion, and adaptability to special needs.","PeriodicalId":408379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126719200","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":"Test stream generation for digital cable UHD broadcasting standard","authors":"Jaeil Kim, Jinyoung Yang, Donghyun Kwon","doi":"10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCE-Berlin.2016.7684759","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a generation scheme of compliance test streams for verifying conformance of a digital cable UHD (Ultra High Definition) receiver including video and audio decoders as well as system and closed caption modules. The proposed test streams for video and audio decoders can test compliance with HEVC (High Efficiency Video Coding) standard and DTS(Digital Theater System)-HD(High Definition) specification. Especially, HEVC test steams include syntax compliance and error resilience test streams for HEVC video compression standard. Moreover, the proposed test streams for system and closed caption modules can be used for verifying parsers for PSIP (Program and System Information Protocol) and closed caption.","PeriodicalId":408379,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE 6th International Conference on Consumer Electronics - Berlin (ICCE-Berlin)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129053925","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}