Full Program

All times of the program are given in CET (Central European Time).

Please note:

  • USA daylight saving time starts on March, 13
  • EU daylight saving time starts on March, 27

Clocks are turned forward 1 hour from 2:00 am to 03:00 am local daylight time.

You may find the following links useful:
Time in big cities around the world: https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
Timezone converter: https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com/



Program At-A-Glance


Monday, 21nd March

Full day workshops: TELMED, WristSense, BRAIN
Half day workshops: PerFlow, StarLess, IoT-PROD, HCCS, ALPACA
15:00 – 19:30 PhD Forum

Tuesday, 22nd March

08:00 – 09:00Whova acquaintancing
09:00 – 09:30Welcome and quick intro
09:30 – 11:00Session 1 – Machine Learning
11:00 – 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00Session 2 – Multimedia
13:00 – 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30Formal Opening
14:30 – 15:45Keynote: Prof. Schahram Dustdar – Engineering the New Fabric of the Distributed Compute Continuum
15:45 – 16:15Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:45Session 3 – Healthcare and Smart Cities
17:45 – 19:00WiP Panels – Systems and Middleware Privacy

Wednesday, 23rd March

08:00 – 08:30Whova acquaintancing
08:30 – 09:50Session 4 – Internet of Things and Mobile Networks
09:50 – 11:00WiP Panels – Hardware Deep Learning
11:00 – 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00Session 5 – Best Paper Candidates
13:00 – 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30PhD Forum Madness
14:30 – 15:45Keynote: Prof. Daniela Rus – One Robot for Every Task
15:45 – 16:15Meet the PhD forum participants Coffee Break
16:15 – 17:00Demo Madness
17:00 – 18:00Demonstrations groups #1
18:00 – 18:15Coffee break
18:15 – 19:15Demonstrations groups #2

Thursday, 24 March

08:00 – 08:30Whova acquaintancing
08:30 – 10:00Industry Track
10:00 – 11:00Session 6 – Sensing
11:00 – 11:30Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:50Session 7 – Crowdsensing and Privacy
12:50 – 14:00Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:30Awards
14:30 – 16:00Panel
16:00 – 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:00Session 8 – Activity Recognition
18:00 – 19:00Closing and Town Hall meeting

Friday, 25 March

Full day workshops: SPT-IoT, COMOREA, PerConAI, PerVehicle, PerAwareCity & WSCC, ARDUOUS
Half day workshops: EmotionAware, PerFail

WiPs are presented in sessions organised as panels. Each WiP is allocated 10’ for presenting the paper. All papers are presented in a row. After all presentations are completed, panel-style interactions will happen, moderated by the session chair.


Demonstrations will be presented in Demonstration Groups. Each group is organised in Parallel Sessions. Within each session, each demonstration is allocated 15’, of which 10’ for presentation and another 5’ for interaction with attendees.



Detailed Program


Monday, 21 March

Full day workshops:
TELMEDWristSenseBRAIN


Half day workshops:
PerFlowStarLess IoT-PRODHCCSALPACA


15:00 – 19:30 PhD Forum

Chairs: Daniela Nicklas (University of Bamberg, Germany) and Sara Khalifa (CSIRO, Australia)

Tuesday, 22nd March

08:00 – 09:00 Whova acquaintancing

09:00 – 09:30 Welcome and quick intro

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

Chair: Chiara Boldrini (IIT-CNR, Italy)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 – 13:00 Session 2: Multimedia

Chair: Amy L Murphy (Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)

  • 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)
    Teaser video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5DvfDRktuE
    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uihBGOw6R64

  • 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)
    Teaser video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8OKaEP_C_4
    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gL2NHfyqrM

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 14:30 Formal opening

14:30 – 15:45 Keynote: Prof. Schahram Dustdar – Engineering the New Fabric of the Distributed Compute Continuum
Chair: Christian Becker (Universität Mannheim, Germany)

15:45 – 16:15 Coffee break

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

Chair: Abhishek Mukherji (Accenture Inc., United States)

17:45 – 19:00 WiP Panels session 1

WiPs are presented in sessions organised as panels. Each WiP is allocated 10’ for presenting the paper. All papers are presented in a row. After all presentations are completed, panel-style interactions will happen, moderated by the session chair.


Panel: Systems & Middleware

Chair: Alan Marchiori (Bucknell University, USA)

Panel: Privacy & Trust

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

Wednesday, 23rd March

08:00 – 08:30 Whova acquaintancing

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

Chair: Sukhpal Singh Gill (Queen Mary University of London, United Kingdom)

09:50 – 11:00 WiP Panels session 2

WiPs are presented in sessions organised as panels. Each WiP is allocated 10’ for presenting the paper. All papers are presented in a row. After all presentations are completed, panel-style interactions will happen, moderated by the session chair.


Panel: Hardware

Chair: Daniela Nicklas (University of Bamberg, Germany)

  • Indoor Localization using Solar Cells. Hamada Rizk (Osaka University, Japan); Dong Ma (University of Cambridge, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Mahbub Hassan (University of New South Wales, Australia); Moustafa Youssef (Alexandria University, Egypt)
    Meet the speaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZuIWGVpQkA
    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DNmQvhBcQs

  • A Novel IoT System For Patient-Centric Pressure Ulcer Prevention Using Sensor Embedded Dressings. Sachin Rangarajan and Hanmin Lee (University of California, San Francisco, USA); Katia Obraczka (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA); Dung Nguyen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland); Mohammad Behfar, Elina Jansson, Jari Rekilä and Jussi Hiltunen (VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, Finland); Young Lee, Vinith Johnson and Kaelan Schorger (University of California San Francisco, USA); Eric Vin (University of California, Santa Cruz, USA)
    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leFMbZa9C90

  • Inference System for Automatic Identification of Braille Blocks using a Pressure Sensor Array. Koichi Kuzume, Yoshitugu Watabe, Haruko Masuda and Tomonari Masuzki (National Institute of Technology, Yuge College, Japan)
    Meet the speaker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kDdrT1lRz0
    Teaser video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZLoNYxRv3w
    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hibpBy_neYM

  • DoubleCheck: Detecting Single-Hand Cycling with Inertial Measurement Unit of Smartphone. Xuefu Dong (Universiy of Tokyo, Japan); Zengyi Han and Yuuki Nishiyama (The University of Tokyo, Japan); Kaoru Sezaki (University of Tokyo, Japan)
    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AW5B-cPdeFI

Panel: Deep Neural Networks

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

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

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

Chair: Salil S Kanhere (UNSW Sydney, Australia)

13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 14:30 PhD Forum madness Chairs: Daniela Nicklas (University of Bamberg, Germany) and Sara Khalifa (CSIRO, Australia)

14:30 – 15:45 Keynote: Prof. Daniela Rus – One Robot for Every Task
Chair: Sajal K. Das (Missouri University of Science and Technology, United States)

15:45 – 16:15 Meet the PhD forum participants Coffee Break
During the coffee break, the PhD forum students will be glad to meet the conference attendees in dedicated virtual rooms, to discuss, gather feedbacks and suggestions on their PhD work.

16:15 – 17:00 Demo madness Chairs: Michele Girolami (ISTI-CNR, Italy) and Ella Peltonen (University of Oulu, Finland)

17:00 – 18:00 Demonstrations groups #1

Demonstrations will be presented in Demonstration Groups. Each group is organised in Parallel Sessions. Within each session, each demonstration is allocated 15’, of which 10’ for presentation and another 5’ for interaction with attendees.


Group 1.1

Chair: Michele Girolami (ISTI-CNR, Italy)

Group 1.2

Chair: Ella Peltonen (University of Oulu, Finland)

  • Improving SAR ops using Wi-Fi and LoRa on UAV.
    Antonello Calabrò (ISTI-CNR, Italy); Eda Marchetti (CNR, Italy)

  • Tasrif: processing wearable data in Python
    Abdulaziz Al Homaid, Syed Hashim, Fadhil Abubaker, Ummar Abbas, Faisal Farooq and Joao Palotti (Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar)
    Teaser video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUbRFVjYvYw
    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQEJoR-ZbUk

  • MPER – a Motion Profiling Experiment and Research system for human body movement
    Sebastian Rettlinger (Technische Universität Dresden & Enari GmbH, Germany); Bastian Knaus ( & Enari GmbH, Germany); Florian Wieczorek (TU Dresden, Germany); Nikolas Ivakko (Hochschule München and Enari GmbH, Germany); Simon Hanisch (TU Dresden and KIT, Germany); Giang T. Nguyen (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany); Thorsten Strufe (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & Centre for Tactile Internet (CeTI)/TU Dresden, Germany); Frank H.P. Fitzek (Technische Universität Dresden & ComNets – Communication Networks Group, Germany)

  • AI-as-a-Service Toolkit for Human-Centered Intelligence in Autonomous Driving
    Saira Bano (University of Pisa, Italy); Alberto Gotta (ISTI-CNR, Italy & CNIT, Italy); Pietro Cassarà (National Research Council (CNR) at Pisa, Italy); Achilles Machumilane (CNR-ISTI, Italy); Christos Sardianos and Christos Chronis (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece); Iraklis Varlamis (Harokopio University, Greece); Konstantinos Tserpes (Harokopio University of Athens, Greece); Vincenzo Lomonaco, Antonio Carta and Davide Bacciu (University of Pisa, Italy); Claudio Gallicchio (Department of Computer Science – University of Pisa, Italy); Rudy Semola and Valerio De Caro (University of Pisa, Italy)
    Teaser video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CELckMqGXgs
    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDNzDNVTMEM

Group 1.3

Chair: Peter Zdankin (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

18:00 – 18:15 Coffee break

18:15 – 19:15 Demonstrations groups #2

Demonstrations will be presented in Demonstration Groups. Each group is organised in Parallel Sessions. Within each session, each demonstration is allocated 15’, of which 10’ for presentation and another 5’ for interaction with attendees.


Group 2.1

Chair: Michele Girolami (ISTI-CNR, Italy)

Group 2.2

Chair: Ella Peltonen (University of Oulu, Finland)

Thursday, 24th March

08:00 – 08:30 Whova acquaintancing

08:30 – 10:00 Industry Track

Chairs: Akhil Mathur (Nokia Bell Labs in Cambridge, UK) and Jörg Ott (Technical University of Munich, Germany)

10:00 – 11:00 Session 6: Sensing

Chair: Sandip Chakraborty (Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India)

11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break

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

Chair: Ella Peltonen (University of Oulu, Finland)

12:50 – 14:00 Lunch break

14:00 – 14:30 Awards

14:30 – 16:00 Panel Chair: Franco Zambonelli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

16:00 – 16:30 Coffee break

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

Chair: Juan Ye (University of St Andrews, United Kingdom)

  • 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)
    Teaser video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjqkcRCLFfA
    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPnZO5aUlUU

  • 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)
    Teaser video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNYtS9heNPM
    Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6Kh8pYCAik

  • 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)

18:00 – 19:00 Closing and Town Hall meeting Chair: Mohan J Kumar (Rochester Institute of Technology, United States)

Friday, 25 March
Full day workshops:
SPT-IoCOMOREAPerConAIPerVehiclePerAwareCity & WSCCARDUOUS


Half day workshops:
EmotionAwarePerFail