Leveraging RF-channel fluctuation for activity recognition: Active and passive systems, continuous and RSSI-based signal features

ACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 43-52

  Sigg, Stephan ^a   Shi, Shuyu ^b   Buesching, Felix ^a   Ji, Yusheng ^b   Wolf, Lars ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATICS   (Japan)

Author keywords

Device free activity recognition; RF sensing

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; PASSIVE SYSTEMS; RADIO FREQUENCIES; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; RECOGNITION SYSTEMS; RF-SENSING; SIGNAL FEATURES; SOFTWARE-DEFINED RADIOS;

MOBILE COMPUTING; RSS;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84897612116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2536853.2536873     Document Type: Conference Paper

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