Program
Tuesday, 16 April 2019
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee




10:30 - 12:30
Session 1: Location tracking
Chair: Olga Saukh (TU Graz, Austria)
3D-OmniTrack: 3D Tracking with COTS RFID Systems. Chengkun Jiang, Yuan He,Songzhen Yang,Junchen Guo,Yunhao Liu
Chorus: UWB Concurrent Transmissions for GPS-like Passive Localization of Countless Targets. Pablo Corbalan, Gian Pietro Picco, Sameera Palipana
SnapLoc: An Ultra-Fast UWB-Based Indoor Localization System for an Unlimited Number of Tags. Bernhard Großwindhager, Michael Stocker, Michael Rath, Carlo Alberto Boano, Kay Römer
Tracking from One Side -- Multi-Person Passive Tracking with WiFi Magnitude Measurements. Chitra R. Karanam, Belal Korany, Yasamin Mostofi
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break





14:00 - 15:30
Session 2: Configuration and calibration
Chair: Brano Kusy (CSIRO, Australia)
Can a Phone Hear the Shape of a Room? Oliver Shih, Anthony Rowe
LongShoT: Long-Range Synchronization of Time. Ceferino Gabriel Ramirez, Anton Sergeyev, Assya Dyussenova, Bob Iannucci
SmartDashCam: Automatic Live Calibration for DashCams. Gopi Krishna Tummala, Tanmoy Das, Prasun Sinha, Rajiv Ramnath
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break




16:00 -17:30
Session 3: Deployments
Chair: Shijia Pan (CMU, US)
Event-triggered Natural Hazard Monitoring with Convolutional Neural Networks on the Edge. Matthias Meyer, Timo Farei-Campagna, Akos Pasztor, Reto Da Forno, Tonio Gsell, Jérome Faillettaz, Andreas Vieli, Samuel Weber, Jan Beutel, Lothar Thiele
Poster/Demo Madness (50 minutes)
Wednesday, 17 April 2019
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee




10:30 - 12:30
Session 4: AI related
Chair: Lu Su (State University of New York at Buffalo, US)
Transferring Activity Recognition Models for New Wearable Sensors with Deep Generative Domain Adaptation. Ali Akbari, Roozbeh Jafari
Mic2Mic: Using Cycle-Consistent Generative Adversarial Networks to Overcome Microphone Variability in Speech Systems. Akhil Mathur, Anton Isopoussu, Fahim Kawsar, Nadia Berthouze, Nicholas D. Lane
SoundSemantics: Exploiting Semantic Knowledge in Text for Embedded Acoustic Event Classification. Md Tamzeed Islam, Shahriar Nirjon
SGSF: A Small Groups Based Serial Fusion Method. Nian Wang, Zhe Zhang, Tingting Li, Jing Xiao, Li Cui
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break





14:00 - 15:30
Session 5: Energy management and low-power systems
Chair: Jeremy Gummeson (UMass Amherst, US)
Getting More Out of Energy-harvesting Systems: Energy Management under Time-varying Utility with PREACT. Kai Geissdoerfer, Raja Jurdak, Brano Kusy, Marco Zimmerling
Capacity over Capacitance for Reliable Energy Harvesting Sensors. Neal Jackson, Joshua Adkins, Prabal Dutta
BackCam: Wireless Computer Vision Using Commodity Devices. Colleen Josephson, Lei Yang, Pengyu Zhang, Sachin Katti
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 -17:30
Session 6: The Good, The Bad and The Ugly of AI for IoT and Sensor Network
Chair: Klara Nahrstedt (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US)
Panelist:
Lucy Cherkasova (ARM Research)
Dirk Elias (Robert Bosch Corporate Research)
Tasuku Ishigooka (Hitachi, Ltd)
Jie Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Guoliang Xing (The Chinese University of Hong-Kong)
Thursday, 18 April 2019
08:00 - 09:00 Registration
09:00 - 10:00 Keynote
10:00 - 10:30 Coffee





10:30 - 12:30
Session 7: Mobile and sensing systems and applications
Chair: Jie Liu (Harbin Institute of Technology, China)
Quantle: Fair and Honest Presentation Coach in Your Pocket. Olga Saukh, Balz Maag
DeltaVR: Achieving High-Performance Mobile VR Dynamics through Pixel Reuse. Yong Li, Wei Gao
TennisEye: Tennis Ball Speed Estimation using a Racket-mounted Motion Sensor. Hongyang Zhao, Shuangquan Wang, Woosub Jung, Gang Zhou
H2B: Heartbeat-based Secret Key Generation Using Piezo Vibration. Qi Lin, Weitao Xu, Jun Liu, Abdelwahed Khamis, Wen Hu, Mahbub Hassan, Aruna Seneviratne
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break





14:00 - 15:30
Session 8: Communication theory and signal processing
Chair: Marco Zimmerling (Technical University of Dresden, Germany)
Automated Estimation of Link Quality for LoRa: A Remote Sensing Approach. Silvia Demetri, Marco Zuniga, Gian Pietro Picco, Fernando Kuipers, Lorenzo Bruzzone, Thomas Telkamp
Cross-Sender Bit-Mixing Coding. Steffen Bondorf, Binbin Chen, Jonathan Scarlett, Haifeng Yu, Yuda Zhao
Recovering Bits from Thin Air: Demodulation of Bandpass Sampled Noisy Signals for Space IoT. Sujay Narayana, Muralishankar R, R Venkatesha Prasad, Vijay S Rao
15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break





16:00 - 17:30
Session 9: Network and system architectures and protocols
Chair: Romain Jacob (ETH Zurich, Switzerland)
ALICE: Autonomous Link-based Cell Scheduling for TSCH. Seohyang Kim, Hyung-Sin Kim, Chongkwon Kim
WIDE: Physical-level CTC via Digital Emulation. Xiuzhen Guo, Yuan He, Jia Zhang, Haotian Jiang
Collaborative Wideband Signal Decoding using Non-coherent Receivers. Roberto Calvo-Palomino, Héctor Cordobés, Fabio Ricciato, Domenico Giustiniano, Vincent Lenders

Ph.D. Forum Program

Monday, 15 April 2019
13:30 - 15:00 Session 1
15:30 - 17:10 Session 2