Full Program

Monday, 13th March

Detailed workshop program: Workshop Programs

14:00-18:00 PhD Forum (Room 7, SCW 464)

Chairs: Rosa I. Arriaga and Alexander Adam, Georgia Institute of Technology

  • Session 1: Smart Agriculture 
    • Integrating UAV and LoRaWAN in WSN for Intelligent Monitoring in Large-scale Rural Farms
      Xu Tao (University of Kentucky, USA)
    • Contactless Animal Activity and Behavior Monitoring
      Zaid Farooq (University of Georgia, USA)
    • Hypermedia Multi-Agents, Semantic Web, and Microservices to Enhance Smart Agriculture Digital Twin
      Kalyani Yogeswaranathan (University College Dublin & Trincomalee Campus, Ireland)
  • Session 2: Wearables and Devices
    • Low-Power and Cost-Effective Context Information Estimation for Wearables
      Mohammad Hasan Rahmani (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
    • Learning Using Privileged Information for Wearable-based Human Activity Recognition
      Nobuyuki Oishi (University of Sussex & Wearable Technologies University, United Kingdom)
    • On-device AI: Quantization-aware Training of Transformers in Time-Series
      Tianheng Ling (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • Session 3: Smart Environments
    • Towards IoT-assisted Non-Intrusive Monitoring of Thermal Variation on Building Envelope
      Naima Khan (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
    • P2P Energy Trading in a Smart Residential Environment with User Behavioral Modeling
      Ashutosh Timilsina (University of Kentucky, USA)
    • Enabling Energy Efficient Augmented Reality in Multi-UAV-UGV Systems 
      Chenyang Wang (Colorado School of MInes, USA)
Tuesday, 14th March

8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30-9:00 Opening Ceremony

9:00-10:15 Keynote:

AI for Scientific Discovery and a Sustainable Future, Carla Gomes (Cornell University, USA)

Chair: Sajal Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

10:15-10:30 Demo Madness 1

Chair: Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

  • D1. A Tool for Automated Generation of Domain Specific Symbolic Models From Texts
    Teodor Stoev (University of Greifswald, Germany); Tomasz Sosnowski (University of Rostock, Germany); Kristina Yordanova (University of Greifswald & University of Rostock, Germany)
  • D2. Canella: Privacy-Aware End-to-End Integrated IoT Development Ecosystem
    Atheer Abdullatif Aljeraisy (Cardiff University & Majmaah University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Charith Perera and Omer Rana (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  • D3. CASPER: Context-Aware Anomaly Detection System for Industrial Robotic Arms
    Hakan Kayan, Peter Burnap, Omer Rana and Charith Perera (Cardiff University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  • D4. Codesign of Edge Intelligence and Automated Guided Vehicle Control
    Rafaela Scaciota Simões da Silva, Malith Thiwanka Gallage and Sumudu Samarakoon (University of Oulu, Finland); Mehdi Bennis (Centre of Wireless Communications, University of Oulu, Finland)
  • D5. Real-time Multi-Camera Analytics for Traffic Information Extraction and Visualization
    Mahshid Ghasemi (Columbia University, USA); Sofia Kleisarchaki and Thomas Calmant (Kentyou, France); Jiawei Lu, Shivam Ojha and Zoran Kostic (Columbia University, USA); Levent Gürgen (Kentyou, USA); Gil Zussman and Javad Ghaderi (Columbia University, USA)
  • D6. Demo: Velox: Enhancing P2P Real-Time Communication in Browsers 
    Justin Parsons, Jackson Winslow and Lewis Tseng (Boston College, USA)
  • D7. Drone Formation for Efficient Swarm Energy Consumption 
    Shilong Guo (The University of Sydney, Australia); Balsam Alkouz, Babar Shahzaad, Abdallah Lakhdari and Athman Bouguettaya (University of Sydney, Australia)
  • D8. ElasticAI: Creating and Deploying Energy-Efficient Deep Learning Accelerator for Pervasive Computing
    Chao Qian, Tianheng Ling and Gregor Schiele (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • D9. IoT Sensing for Precision Agriculture
    David Sousa, Ruben Moutinho, Carlos Resende, João Oliveira and Miguel Roque (Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, Portugal); Ricardo Graça (Fraunhofer AICOS, Portugal); Antonio Oliveira-Jr (Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, Portugal & Federal University of Goias, Brazil); Waldir Moreira (Fraunhofer Portugal AICOS, Portugal); Lopo Carvalho (Aquagri Lda, Portugal)
  • D10. Kaolid: Lid-type Olfactory Interface to Improve Taste of Beverages with Ortho-Retronasal Smell
    Daiki Mayumi and Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Yugo Nakamura (Kyushu University, Japan); Yuki Matsuda, Kentaro Ueda and Shinya Misaki (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  • D11. Monitoring Efficiency of IoT Wireless Charging
    Pengwei Yang, Amani Abusafia, Abdallah Lakhdari and Athman Bouguettaya (University of Sydney, Australia)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-12:45 Session 1: Driving, Riding, and Walking

Chair: Daniela Nicklas (University of Bamberg, Germany)

  • mmDrive: mmWave Sensing for Live Monitoring and On-Device Inference of Dangerous Driving
    Argha Sen, Avijit Mandal, Prasenjit Karmakar, Anirban Das, Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
  • DriCon: On-device Just-in-Time Context Characterization for Unexpected Driving Events
    Debasree Das, Sandip Chakraborty, Bivas Mitra (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)
  • HeadMon: Head Dynamics Enabled Riding Maneuver Prediction
    Zengyi Han, Liqiang Xu, Xuefu Dong, Yuuki Nishiyama, Kaoru Sezaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
  • Joint Estimation of the Distance and Relative Velocity of Obstacles via Smartphone Active Sound Sensing for Pedestrian Safety
    Thilina Dissanayake, Takuya Maekawa, Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan)

12:45-13:00 Demo Madness 2

Chair: Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)

  • D12. Monitoring, IoT Devices, and Semantics
    Marc Vila Gomez (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya & Worldsensing, Spain); Maria-Ribera Sancho (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya – BarcelonaTech, Spain); Ernest Teniente (UPC, Spain)
  • D13. On the Advantages of Hand Gesture Recognition with Data Gloves for Gaming Applications
    Achim Schade (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Jonas Schulz (TU Dresden, Germany); Vu Nguyen (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany & Vietnam – Korea University of Information and Communication Technology, Vietnam); Christian Scheunert (TU Dresden, Germany); Sebastian Bodenstedt (National Center for Tumor Diseases, Germany); Giang T. Nguyen (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Stefanie Speidel (National Center for Tumour Diseases (NCT), Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets – Communication Networks Group, Germany)
  • D14. Photovoltaic Cells for Energy Harvesting and Step Counting
    Kaede Shintani, Hamada Rizk and Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
  • D15. Possum: PrOactive diSruption riSk identification for sUpply chain Management
    Hamed Aboutorab (University of New South Wales, Australia); Morteza Saberi (University of Technology Sydney, Australia); Omar Hussain (University of New South Wales, Australia); Farookh Khadeer Hussain (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
  • D16. Privacy-Preserving Object Detection with Veracruz
    Guilhem Bryant (Arm Research, USA); Xinxin Fan (IoTeX, USA); Alexandre Ferreira (Arm Research, USA); Edmund Grimley-Evans (Arm Research, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Christopher Haster and Derek Miller (Arm Research, USA); Dominic P Mulligan (AWS, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Hugo J.M. Vincent and Shale Xiong (Arm Research, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Lei Xu (Kent State University, USA)
  • D17. QoS-Aware Point Cloud Streaming of Wild Animals/Humans for Interactions in Virtual Space
    Hiroki Ishimaru (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Yugo Nakamura (Kyushu University, Japan); Manato Fujimoto (Osaka Metropolitan University, Japan); Hirohiko Suwa and Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
  • D18. Revising Poor Man’s Eye Tracker For Crowd-Sourced Studies
    Eileen Marie Sophia Becks, Malte Josten, Viktor Matkovic and Torben Weis (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
  • D19. Secure Computations in Opportunistic Networks: An Edgelet Demonstration with a Medical Use-Case
    Ludovic Javet (INRIA & UVSQ, France); Nicolas Anciaux and Luc Bouganim (Inria Rocquencourt, France); Léo Lamoureux (INRIA, France); Philippe Pucheral (Inria Rocquencourt & University of Versailles Saint Quentin, France)
  • D20. Service-based Trajectory Planning in Multi-Drone Skyway Networks
    Sarah Bradley and Albertus Alvin Janitra (The University of Sydney, Australia); Babar Shahzaad, Balsam Alkouz, Athman Bouguettaya and Abdallah Lakhdari (University of Sydney, Australia)
  • D21. Towards Deploying Advanced Context Provisioning for Surf Life Saving Use Case
    Kanaka Sai Jagarlamudi, Arkady Zaslavsky and Kevin Lee (Deakin University, Australia)
  • D22. UnStressMe: Explainable Stress Analytics and Self-tracking Data Visualizations Eva Paraschou
    Sofia Yfantidou and Athena Vakali (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece)
  • D23. Voice-Enabled Privacy Assistant Towards Facilitating Successful Ageing in Smart Homes
    Reem Aldhafiri (Cardiff University & University of Hafr Al Batin, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break (N2Women Event)

14:00-15:45 Session 2: Security and Privacy

Chair: Claudio Cicconetti (National Research Council, Italy)

  • Privacy-preserving Pedestrian Tracking using Distributed 3D LiDARs
    Masakazu Ohno, Riki Ukyo, Tatsuya Amano, Hamada Rizk, Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan)
  • GFL Federated Learning on Non-IID data via Privacy-preserving Synthetic data
    Yihang Cheng, Lan Zhang (University of Science and Technology of China, China), Anran Li (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
  • SEEK: Detecting GPS Spoofing via a Sequential Dashcam based Vehicle Localization Framework
    Peng Jiang (Old Dominion University, USA), Hongyi Wu (The University of Arizona, USA), Yanxiao Zhao (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA), Danella Zhao (The University of Arizona, USA), ChunSheng Xin (Old Dominion University, USA)
  • BrainNet: Improving Brainwave-based Biometric Recognition with Siamese Networks
    Matin Fallahi, Thorsten Strufe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany), Patricia Arias-Cabarcos (Paderborn University, Germany)

15:45-16:15 Coffee Break

16:15-17:15 Session 3: WiFi Sensing

Chair: Luca Bedogni (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)

  • Exposing the CSI: A Systematic Investigation of CSI-based Wi-Fi Sensing Capabilities and Limitations
    Marco Cominelli (University of Brescia, Italy), Francesco Gringoli (CNIT/University of Brescia, Italy), Francesco Restuccia (Northeastern University, USA)
  • Scheduled Spatial Sensing against Adversarial WiFi Sensing
    Steven M. Hernandez, Eyuphan Bulut (Virginia Commonwealth University, USA)

17:15-17:45 PhD Madness

Presentations of Posters from PhD Forum (see the list in the detailed program of Monday)

17:45-19:00 Welcome Reception with Posters and Demos Exhibition

Wednesday, 15th March

8:00-8:30 Registration

8.30-8.45 Welcome Remark

Raheem Beyah, Dean of the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech

8:45-10:45 Session 4: Systems & Middleware

Chair: Philippe Lalanda (University of Grenoble-Alpes, France)

  • PreActo: Efficient Cross-Camera Object Tracking System in Video Analytics Edge Computing
    Thanh-Tung Nguyen (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea), Si Young Jang (Nokia Bell Labs, UK), Boyan Kostadinov (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea), Dongman Lee (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea)
  • Highly Responsive Batteryless System for Indoor Light Energy Harvesting Environments
    Daeyong Kim, Junick Ahn, Hakjun Lee, Hojung Cha (Yonsei University, Korea)
  • An Intent-based Framework for Vehicular Edge Computing
    Tianzhang He (Monash University, Australia), Adel Nadjaran Toos (Monash University & University of Melbourne, Australia)i, Negin Akbari, Tawfiq Islam (University of Melbourne, Australia), Muhammad Aamir Cheema (Monash University, Australia)
  • Serverledge: Decentralized Function-as-a-Service for the Edge-Cloud Continuum
    Gabriele Russo Russo, Tiziana Mannucci, Valeria Cardellini, Francesco Lo Presti (University of Rome Tor Bergata, Italy)
  • Zone-based Federated Learning for Mobile Sensing Data
    Xiaopeng Jiang (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Thinh On  (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Hai Phan  (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Hessamaldin Mohammadi  (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA), Vijaya D Mayyuri (Qualcomm Technologies Inc, USA), An Chen (Qualcomm Technologies Inc, USA), Ruoming Jin (Ken State University, USA), Cristian Borcea  (New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA)

10:45-11:15 Coffee Break

11:15-11:45 Work In Progress Madness 1

Chairs: Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA)

  • Towards Activity Recognition Using Wi-Fi CSI from Backscatter Tags
    Viktor T. Erdelyi, Kazuki Miyao and Akira Uchiyama (Osaka University, Japan); Tomoki Murakami (NTT Corporation, Japan)
  • Heterogeneous Hyper-Graph Neural Networks for Context-aware Human Activity Recognition
    Wen Ge and Guanyi Mou (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA); Emmanuel O. Agu (WPI, USA); Kyumin Lee (Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA)
  • Enabling Relative Localization for Nanodrone Swarm Platooning
    Wei Sun (Ohio State University, USA)
  • Indoor Positioning using Wi-Fi and Machine Learning for Industry 5.0
    Inoj Neupane and Belal Alsinglawi (Western Sydney University, Australia); Khaled M. Rabie (Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
  • Towards Location- and Orientation-Independent RFID Authentication with COTS Devices
    Yinan Zhu (Tsinghua University, China); Chunhui Duan (Beijing Institute of Technology, China); Xuan Ding (Tsinghua University, China)

11:45-13:00 Keynote

Rising to the Challenge of Autonomous Vehicles, Raj Rajkumar (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)

Chair: Christian Becker (Stuttgart University, Germany)

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:30 Session 5: Best Paper Candidates

Chair:  Franco Zambonelli (Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy)

  • Learning the world from its words: Anchor-agnostic Transformers for Fingerprint-based Indoor Localization
    Son Nguyen, Duc V. Le, Paul Havinga (University of Twente, Netherlands)
  • EMGSense: A Low-Effort Self-Supervised Domain Adaptation Framework for EMG Sensing
    Di Duan (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Huanqi Yang (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Guohao Lan (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands), Tianxing Li (Michigan State University, USA), Xiaohua Jia (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Weitao Xu (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
  • Ortho-CodeA: Orthogonal Codes Assisted Backscatter Multiple Access
    Weiqi Wu, Ammar Hawbani, Wei Gong (University of Science and Technology of China, China)

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00-17:30 Session 6: Sensing

Chair:  Gabriele Civitarese (University of Milano, Italy)

  • MassNet: A Deep Learning Approach for Body Weight Extraction from A Single Pressure Image
    Ziyu Wu, Quan Wan, Mingjie Zhao, Yi Ke, Yiran Fang, Zhen Liang, Fangting Xie, Jingyuan Cheng (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
  • Device-free multi-person indoor localization using the change of ToF
    Atsushi Nomura (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Masato Sugasaki (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), Kota Tsubouchi (Yahoo Japan Corporation, Japan), Nobuhiko Nishio (Ritsumeikan University, Japan), Masamichi Shimosaka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
  • hEARt: Motion-resilient Heart Rate Monitoring with In-ear Microphones
    Kayla-Jade Butkow (University of Cambridge, UK), Ting Dang (University of Cambridge, UK), Andrea Ferlini ((University of Cambridge & Nokia Bell Labs, UK), Dong Ma (Singapore Management University, Singapore), Cecilia Mascolo (University of Cambridge, UK)

17:30-18:30 Town Hall Meeting

Thursday, 16th March

8:00-8:30 Registration

8:30-10:30 Industry Track

Chair: Abhishek Mukherji (Accenture, USA)

  • Hands-free Mobile Device Control Through Head Pose Estimation
    Janick Edinger (University of Hamburg, Germany); Melanie Heck (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Laurien Lummer (Scieneers GmbH, Germany); Anton Wachner and Christian Becker (Universität Mannheim, Germany)
  • NNTrak: A Neural Network Approach Towards Calculating Air-Writing Trajectories In Real-Time With A Smartwatch
    Vivek Chandel (TCS Research, India); Avik Ghose (Tata Consultancy Services, India)
  • Mobile Spaghetti Analysis in Grocery Store with Smartphone Sensing
    Kota Tsubouchi (Yahoo Japan Corporation, Japan); Takuzo Ikuta and Nobuhiko Nishio (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
  • FACT: A Flexible Access Control Technique for Very Large Scale Public IoT Services
    Alian Yu (Vanderbilt University, USA); Jian Kang (Google, USA); Wei Jiang (University of Missouri, USA); Dan Lin (Vanderbilt University, USA)
  • Generating Tiny Deep Neural Networks for ECG Classification on Micro-controllers
    Shalini Mukhopadhyay (TCS Research, India); Swarnava Dey (TCS Research & Tata Consultancy Service Limited, India); Avik Ghose (Tata Consultancy Services, India); Pragya Singh (IIIT Delhi, India); Pallab Dasgupta (IIT Kharagpur, India)
  • Permission method for use of smartphone location data with emphasis on users’ understanding
    Kota Tsubouchi and Takashi Miyazaki (Yahoo Japan Corporation, Japan)

10:30-11:00 Coffee Break

11:00-11:30 Work In Progress Madness 2

Chair: Delphine Reinhardt (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany)

  • Balancing Federated Learning Trade-Offs for Heterogeneous Environments
    Matt Baughman (University of Chicago, USA); Nathaniel Hudson (University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA); Ian Foster and Kyle Chard (University of Chicago, USA)
  • 3D Spatial Sensing and Analysis Model of Closed Space CO2 Concentration
    Daisuke Goto, Akira Tsuge, Wenhao Huang and Takafumi Kawasaki (Keio University, Japan); Yin Chen (Reitaku University, Japan); Tadashi Okoshi and Jin Nakazawa (Keio University, Japan)
  • Water quality analysis using mmWave radars
    Dariush Salami, Anni Juvakoski and Riku Vahala (Aalto University, Finland); Michael Beigl (KIT & TECO, Germany); Stephan Sigg (Aalto University, Finland)
  • Grid MIMO: Exploiting Spatiality of Power Line Infrastructure for MIMO
    Wei Sun (Ohio State University, USA); Bo Chen (Cisco Meraki, USA); Vivek Yenamandra (Analog VLSI Lab & Ohio State University, USA); Kannan Srinivasan (The Ohio State University, USA)

11:30-13:00 Panel: Sustainability in Computing

Moderators: 

  • Gurdip Singh (George Mason University, USA) 
  • Gregory Abowd (Northeastern University, USA)

Panelists:

  • Andrew Chien (University of Chicago, USA)
  • Alex Jones (National Science Foundation, USA)
  • Ravinder Dahiya (Northeastern University, USA)
  • Josiah Hester (Georgia Tech, USA)
  • Bashima Islam (Worcester Polytechnic Institue, USA)

Panel description: The growing use of computing and proliferation of computing devices requires a holistic focus on sustainability as the environmental impacts of computing technologies go beyond their energy consumption. Environmental impacts span all stages of the lifecycle – manufacturing, operation, and disposal. A sustainability mindset must permeate all organizations involved in design, manufacturing, operation, and disposal/recycling of computational devices. This panel will discuss current and new research on sustainability in computing that spans the full lifecycle, all layers of the computing stack and across the computing spectrum from edge to cloud. The panel will also discuss potential cross-disciplinary approaches to sustainable computing and new notions and metrics to quantify sustainability.

13:00-14:00 Lunch Break

14:00-15:15 Session 7: Human Activity Recognition

Chair: Ella Peltonen (University of Oulu, Finland)

  • CHAR: Composite Head-body Activities Recognition with A Single Earable Device
    Peizhao Zhu, Yongpan Zou, Wenyuan Li, Kaishun Wu (Shenzhen University, China)
  • ALAE-TAE-CutMix+: Beyond the State-of-the-Art for Human Activity Recognition Using Wearable Sensors
    Nafees Ahmad, Ho-Fung Leung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HK, China)
  • Investigating Enhancements to Contrastive Predictive Coding for Human Activity Recognition
    Harish Kashyap Haresamudram, Irfan Essa, Thomas Plötz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

15:15-15:45 Coffee Break

15:45-17:00 Session 8: Pervasive Communications

Chair: Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA)

  • DroneVLC: Exploiting Drones and VLC to Gather Data from Batteryless Sensors
    Lucan de Groot, Talia Xu, Marco Zuniga (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands)
  • BumbleBee: Enabling the Vision of Pervasive ZigBee Backscatter Communication
    Zhaoyuan Xu, Wei Gong (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
  • Characterisation of Wearable Electric-Field Communication Link for BAN Multimedia Applications
    Robert Cobde (University of Sussex, UK), Muhammad Zeeshan (South East Technological University, Ireland), Daniel Roggen (University of Sussex, UK), Robert Prance (University of Sussex, UK), Lianglun Lai (Huawei Technologies Research and Development UK Ltd, UK), Arash Pouryazdan (University of Sussex, UK)

18:30 Social Banquet & Awards Ceremony

Location: Georgia Aquarium Banquet Area (6:30-9PM)

Friday, 17th March

Detailed workshop program: Workshop Programs