If you see something, swipe towards it: Crowdsourced event localization using smartphones

UbiComp 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 23-32

  Ouyang, Robin Wentao ^a   Srivastava, Animesh ^a   Prabahar, Prithvi ^a   Choudhury, Romit Roy ^a   Addicott, Merideth ^b   McClernon, F Joseph ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Crowdsourcing; Event localization; Smartphone sensing

Indexed keywords

CROWDSOURCING; DETECTION COVERAGE; EVENT LOCALIZATIONS; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; MULTIPLE EVENTS; OUTDOOR ENVIRONMENT; SENSOR NOISE; SMARTPHONE SENSING;

SIGNAL ENCODING; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

SMARTPHONES;

EID: 84885206373     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2493432.2493455     Document Type: Conference Paper

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