Monitoring household activities and user location with a cheap, unobtrusive thermal sensor array

UbiComp 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 141-145

  Hevesi, Peter ^a   Wille, Sebastian ^b   Pirkl, Gerald ^a   Wehn, Norbert ^b   Lukowicz, Paul ^a  

^a GERMAN RESEARCH CENTER FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DFKI   (Germany)

^b Rheinland Pfälzische Technische Universität Kaiserslautern Landau   (Germany)

Author keywords

Activity recognition; Household monitoring; Thermal sensor

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGING; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

ACTIVITY DETECTION; ACTIVITY RECOGNITION; BATHROOM ACTIVITIES; HOUSEHOLD ACTIVITIES; HUMAN ACTIVITY MONITORING; OFFICE ENVIRONMENTS; SENSING MODALITIES; THERMAL SENSORS;

UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

EID: 84908571483     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2632048.2636084     Document Type: Conference Paper

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