no code implementations • 11 Jan 2024 • Sizhen Bian, Mengxi Liu, Bo Zhou, Paul Lukowicz, Michele Magno
To this end, we first sorted the explorations into three domains according to the involved body forms: body-part electric field, whole-body electric field, and body-to-body electric field, and enumerated the state-of-art works in the domains with a detailed survey of the backed sensing tricks and targeted applications.
no code implementations • 15 Dec 2023 • Pietro Bonazzi, Yawei Li, Sizhen Bian, Michele Magno
We present "Q-Segment", a quantized real-time segmentation algorithm, and conduct a comprehensive evaluation on a low-power edge vision platform with an in-sensors processor, the Sony IMX500.
1 code implementation • 1 Dec 2023 • Pietro Bonazzi, Sizhen Bian, Giovanni Lippolis, Yawei Li, Sadique Sheik, Michele Magno
This paper introduces a neuromorphic methodology for eye tracking, harnessing pure event data captured by a Dynamic Vision Sensor (DVS) camera.
Ranked #1 on Pupil Detection on INI-30
no code implementations • 2 Nov 2023 • Julian Moosmann, Pietro Bonazzi, Yawei Li, Sizhen Bian, Philipp Mayer, Luca Benini, Michele Magno
To this goal, we designed a smart glasses prototype as a research platform featuring two microcontrollers, including a novel milliwatt-power RISC-V parallel processor with a hardware accelerator for visual AI, and a Bluetooth low-power module for communication.
Ranked #1 on Object Detection on PASCAL VOC
no code implementations • 7 Aug 2023 • Sungho Suh, Vitor Fortes Rey, Sizhen Bian, Yu-Chi Huang, Jože M. Rožanec, Hooman Tavakoli Ghinani, Bo Zhou, Paul Lukowicz
This paper presents a novel wearable sensing prototype that combines IMU and body capacitance sensing modules to recognize worker activities in the manufacturing line.
1 code implementation • 1 Aug 2023 • Sizhen Bian, Michele Magno
Energy efficiency and low latency are crucial requirements for designing wearable AI-empowered human activity recognition systems, due to the hard constraints of battery operations and closed-loop feedback.
2 code implementations • 15 Jul 2023 • Pietro Bonazzi, Thomas Ruegg, Sizhen Bian, Yawei Li, Michele Magno
We propose TinyTracker, a highly efficient, fully quantized model for 2D gaze estimation designed to maximize the performance of the edge vision systems considered in this study.
Ranked #2 on Gaze Estimation on GazeCapture
no code implementations • 27 May 2023 • Sizhen Bian, Lukas Schulthess, Georg Rutishauser, Alfio Di Mauro, Luca Benini, Michele Magno
The interest in dynamic vision sensor (DVS)-powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) is raising, especially due to the microsecond-level reaction time of the bio-inspired event sensor, which increases robustness and reduces latency of the perception tasks compared to a RGB camera.
no code implementations • 27 May 2023 • Sizhen Bian, Alexander Rupp, Michele Magno
The system we have implemented is a working prototype of a bigger end goal and is supposed to initialize progress toward a smarter, more efficient, and still privacy-respect gym environment in the future.
no code implementations • 13 Jan 2023 • Sizhen Bian, Xiaying Wang, Tommaso Polonelli, Michele Magno
We also introduced an open data set composed of fifty sessions of eleven gym workouts collected from ten subjects that is publicly available.
no code implementations • 10 Nov 2022 • Mengxi Liu, Sizhen Bian, Paul Lukowicz
This work described a novel non-contact, wearable, real-time eye blink detection solution based on capacitive sensing technology.
1 code implementation • 26 Oct 2022 • Sizhen Bian, Vitor Fortes Rey, Siyu Yuan, Paul Lukowicz
In the second case, we tried to recognize actions related to manipulating objects and physical collaboration between users by using a wrist-worn HBC sensing unit.
no code implementations • 8 Oct 2022 • Mengxi Liu, Sizhen Bian, Bo Zhou, Agnes Grünerbl, Paul Lukowicz
We studied the frequency sensitivity of the electrochemical impedance spectrum regarding distinct beverages and the importance of features like amplitude, phase, and real and imaginary components for beverage classification.
no code implementations • 18 Jul 2022 • Sizhen Bian, Kexuan Guo, Mengxi Liu, Bo Zhou, Paul Lukowicz
In more detail, the transmitters generate the oscillating magnetic fields with a registered sequence, the receiver senses the strength of the induced magnetic field by a customized three axes coil, which is configured as the LC oscillator with the same oscillating frequency so that an induced current shows up when the receiver is located in the field of the generated magnetic field.