Call for Participation

The 20th IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2022), Pisa, Italy (virtual) March 21 – 25, 2022

Sponsored by:

IEEE Computer Society (IEEE TCCC, IEEE TCPP)

 

Main Features: 

  •  Two keynote speeches
  •  19 Full Papers and 5 Concise Contributions – see below
  •  1 Panel session
  •  Best Papers Session
  •  2 Work-in-Progress Panels Sessions
  •  Industry session
  •  Demonstration Session
  •  PhD Forum
  •  17 Workshops – see https://percom.org/PerCom2022/list-of-workshops/

 

Program Outline

  • March 22: Pre-conference Workshops
  • March 22-24: Main Conference
  • March 22-23: Keynotes
  • March 24: Panel 
  • March 22 – 24: Industry, Demo and WiP sessions
  • March 22: Best Papers Session, PhD Forum
  • March 26: Post Conference Workshops

 

Keynotes

Keynote 1 

Date: 22 March @14.30 CET

Title: Engineering the New Fabric of the Distributed Compute Continuum

  • Speaker: Prof. Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria.

 

Keynote 2

Date: 23 March @14.30 CET

Title: One Robot for Every Task

  • Speaker: Prof. Daniela Rus, MIT, USA

 

Visit https://percom.org/PerCom2022/keynote-speakers/ for more details
 

 

Panel

Date: 24 March @14.30 CET

Title: “Pervasive Autonomy: Humans-in-the-Loop, or Forget-about-Them?”

Panel Chair: Prof. Franco Zambonelli, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy

Panelists:
  • Prof. Virginia Dignum, Umea University, Sweden
  • Prof. Jeremy Pitt, Imperial College London, UK
  • Prof. Giovanni Sartor, University of Bologna, Italy
  • Prof. Gregor Schiele, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany 

 

Visit   https://percom.org/PerCom2022/panel for details.



Program (all times in CET)

Monday 21 March

Pre-conference workshops

 

Tuesday 22 March

09:30 – 11:00 Session 1: Machine Learning

  • Acceleration-based Human Activity Recognition of Packaging Tasks Using Motif-guided Attention Networks, Jaime Morales, Naoya Yoshimura and Qingxin Xia (Osaka University, Japan); Atsushi Wada and Yasuo Namioka (Toshiba Corporation, Japan); Takuya Maekawa (Osaka University, Japan)
  • Weight Separation for Memory-Efficient and Accurate Deep Multitask Learning, Seulki Lee (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea); Shahriar Nirjon (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA)
  • Resource-Aware Classification via Model Management Enabled Data Stream Optimization, Michael Sünkel and Golnaz Elmamooz (University of Bamberg, Germany); Marco Grawunder (University of Oldenburg, Germany); Phan Thai Hoang (University of Bamberg, Germany); Elke Rauch (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany); Lara Schmeling (Institute for Agricultural Engineering and Animal Husbandry, Germany); Stefan Thurner (Bavarian State Research Center, Germany); Daniela Nicklas (University of Bamberg & Faculty Information Systems and Applied Computer Science, Germany)

11:30 – 13:00 Session 2: Multimedia

  • OpCASH: Optimized Utilization of MEC Cache for 360-Degree Video Streaming with Dynamic Tiling, Chamara M Madarasingha, Kanchana Thilakarathna and Albert Zomaya (The University of Sydney, Australia)
  • MRIM: Enabling Mixed-Resolution Imaging for Low-Power Pervasive Vision Tasks, Ji-Yan Wu, Vithurson Subasharan, Tuan Tran and Archan Misra (Singapore Management University, Singapore)
  • Context-driven Encrypted Multimedia Traffic Classification on Mobile Devices, Mohammad A. Hoque, Benjamin Finley, Ashwin Rao and Abhishek Kumar (University of Helsinki, Finland); Pan Hui (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong & University of Helsinki, Finland); Mostafa Ammar (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA); Sasu Tarkoma (University of Helsinki, Finland)

14:30 – 15:45 Keynote#1

  • Prof. Schahram Dustdar – Engineering the New Fabric of the Distributed Compute Continuum

16:15 – 17:45 Session 3: Healthcare and Smart Cities

  • CogAx: Early Assessment of Cognitive and Functional Impairment from Accelerometry, Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramamurthy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Soumyajit Chatterjee (IIT Kharagpur, India); Elizabeth Galik (University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA); Aryya Gangopadhyay (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Nirmalya Roy (University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA); Bivas Mitra (IIT Kharagpur, India); Sandip Chakraborty (IIT Kharagpur, India)
  • AiEEG: Personalized Seizure Prediction Through Partially Reconfigurable Deep Neural Networks, Daniel Uvaydov, Raffaele Guida, Pedram Johari, Francesco Restuccia and Tommaso Melodia (Northeastern University, USA)
  • HVAC Power Conservation through Reverse Auctions and Machine Learning, Enrico Casella (University of Kentucky, USA); Atieh R. Khamesi (Ericsson, USA); Simone Silvestri (University of Kentucky, USA); D. A. Baker and Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA)

17:45 – 19:00 WiP Panels session 1

 

Wednesday 23 March

08:30 – 09:50 Session 4: Internet of Things and Mobile Networks

  • Universal Space-Time Stream Backscatter with Ambient WiFi, Yifan Yang and Wei Gong (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
  • Fine-grained Stop-Move Detection in UWB-based Trajectories (CONCISE), Fatme Hachem (University of Milan, Italy); Davide Vecchia (University of Trento, Italy); Maria Damiani (University of Milan, Italy); Gian Pietro Picco (University of Trento, Italy)
  • CartaGenie: Context-Driven Synthesis of City-Scale Mobile Network Traffic Snapshots, Kai Xu (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Rajkarn Singh (University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Hakan Bilen (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Marco Fiore (IMDEA Networks Institute, Spain); Mahesh K Marina (The University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom); Yue Wang (Samsung Electronics, USA)

09:50 – 11:00 WiP Panels session 2

11:30 – 13:00 Session 5: Best Paper Candidates

  • SmartPhOx: Smartphone-Based Pulse Oximetry Using a Meta-Region of Interest, Firmin Kateu (Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse, France); Gentian Jakllari (University of Toulouse, France); Emmanuel Chaput (Irit-Enseeiht, France)
  • Reservoir: Named Data for Pervasive Computation Reuse at the Network Edge, Md Washik Al Azad (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA); Spyridon Mastorakis (University of Nebraska at Omaha, USA)
  • SmartSPEC: Customizable Smart Space Datasets via Event-Driven Simulations, Andrew Chio (University of California, Irvine, USA); Daokun Jiang (Google); Peeyush Gupta (University of California, Irvine, USA); Georgios Bouloukakis (Telecom SudParis, USA); Roberto Yus (University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA); Sharad Mehrotra and Nalini Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, USA)

14:00 – 14:30 PhD Forum madness

 14:30 – 15:45 Keynote #2

  • Prof. Daniela Rus – One Robot for Every Task

 16:15 – 17:00 Demo madness

 17:00 – 19:15 Demonstrations

 

Thursday 24 March

08:30 – 10:00 Industry Track

10:00 – 11:00 Session 6: Sensing

  • LuckyChirp: Opportunistic Respiration Sensing Using Cascaded Sonar on Commodity Devices (CONCISE), Qiuyue Xue (University of Washington, USA); D Shin, Anupam Pathak, Jake Garrison, Jonathan Hsu and Mark Malhotra (Google, USA); Shwetak N. Patel (University of Washington, USA)
  • ZEL: Net-Zero-Energy Lifelogging System using Heterogeneous Energy Harvesters (CONCISE), Mitsuru Arita and Yugo Nakamura (Kyushu University, Japan); Shigemi Ishida (Future University Hakodate, Japan); Yutaka Arakawa (Kyushu University, Japan)
  • RGB LED Bulbs for Communication, Harvesting and Sensing (CONCISE), Muhammad Sarmad Shahab Mir (IMDEA Networks, Madrid & Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain); Behnaz Majlesein (Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain); Borja Genoves Guzman (IMDEA Networks, Spain); Julio Rufo (IDeTIC-ULPGC, Spain); Domenico Giustiniano (IMDEA Networks, Spain)

11:30 – 12:50 Session 7: Crowdsensing and Privacy

  • CountMeIn: Adaptive Crowd Estimation with Wi-Fi in Smart Cities, Gürkan Solmaz (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany); Pankaj Baranwal (NEC Laboratories Europe GmbH, Germany & University of Delhi, India); Flavio Cirillo (NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany)
  • Privacy-Friendly De-authentication with BLUFADE: Blurred Face Detection, Matteo Cardaioli (University of Padua, Italy); Pier Paolo Tricomi (University of Padua, Italy); Mauro Conti (University of Padua, Italy); Gene Tsudik (University of California Irvine, USA)
  • Effect of User Expectation on Mobile App Privacy: A Field Study (CONCISE), Ricardo Mendes (University of Coimbra, Portugal); André Brandão (CRACS/INESCTEC and CISUC, Portugal); Joao P Vilela (University of Porto, Portugal); Alastair R. Beresford (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom)

14:30 – 16:00 Panel

  • “Pervasive Autonomy: Humans-in-the-Loop, or Forget-about-Them?“

16:30 – 18:00 Session 8: Activity Recognition

  • Adversarial Deep Feature Extraction Network for User Independent Human Activity Recognition, Sungho Suh (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany); Vitor F Rey (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) and University of Kaiserslautern, Germany); Paul Lukowicz (DFKI and University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
  • FedCLAR: Federated Clustering for Personalized Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition, Riccardo Presotto and Gabriele Civitarese (University of Milan, Italy); Claudio Bettini (University of Milan, Italy)
  • ActiSight: Wearer Foreground Extraction using a Practical RGB-Thermal Wearable, Rawan Alharbi (Northwestern University, USA); Sougata Sen (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Goa, India); Ada Ng, Nabil Alshurafa and Josiah Hester (Northwestern University, USA)

 

Friday 25 March

Post-conference workshops