Unobtrusive human height and posture recognition with a capacitive sensor

Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 305-332

  Valtonen, Miika ^a   Kaila, Lasse ^a   Mäentausta, Jaakko ^a   Vanhala, Jukka ^a  

^a TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

Author keywords

capacitive sensor; context recognition; Height measurement; posture recognition; user identification

Indexed keywords

CAPACITIVE SENSOR; CONTEXT RECOGNITION; HEIGHT MEASUREMENT; POSTURE RECOGNITION; USER IDENTIFICATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

SENSORS;

EID: 83755206951     PISSN: 18761364     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/AIS-2011-0120     Document Type: Article

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