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UCS FS2015
Ubiquitous Computing Seminar FS2015
Topic: Smart Environments
Friedemann Mattern, Otmar Hilliges
Introduction session
An introduction to the seminar will be given on Thursday, 18th December 2014 at 9:15-10:00 in CAB H 52. Seminar topics will be distributed to students during this session.
Time and Place
Tuesdays, 11:15 - 13:00, Room CAB G 52
Goal
The goal of the seminar is not only to familiarize students with exciting new research topics, but also to teach basic scientific writing and oral presentation skills
Organization
The seminar consists of talks given by students on selected topics and discussions led by the instructors. A tentative schedule is provided below. A maximum of 12 students will be admitted to the seminar. Priority will be given to Master students who have sufficient background knowledge in the topic but the seminar is generally open to Bachelor and Doctoral students as well.
Seminar attendees select a specific topic within the broader context of current research and prepare an oral presentation. As a starting point, the students are assigned 3-4 important papers in their topic but they have to collect complementary materials and compile them together. Oral presentations must be planned for 45 minutes. Each presentation will be followed by a technical discussion as well as a short feedback session on the quality/style of the presentation. Each student also has to write a short essay on the selected topic. Essays must be composed using a given template and must be of length 5-8 pages (including figures, tables, and references). The essay is due in 3 weeks after the presentation. The quality of this essay will be evaluated and considered for the final grade.
It is not sufficient to present the selected papers only, the students should do independent literature research and in their presentations and essays they should summarize the whole topic.
Each student will have a tutor (typically a research assistant of the Distributed Systems Group or the Advanced Interactive Technologies Group) assigned with whom they can discuss their papers in detail and receive preliminary feedback on their presentation and their essay.
The seminar will be held in English. Presentations and reports must be in English. Attendees are required to participate in all sessions.
Templates
Please use the following templates for your presentation and for your report.
Grading
The final grade is based on:
- the quality of the presentation;
- the quality of the essay;
- participation in discussions and feedback sessions after each presentation.
Students who successfully complete the seminar will be awarded 2 credit points (ECTS).
Contact
For further information please contact Hossein Shafagh.
Schedule
Reading list
A list of important research papers and links for each topic will be provided here soon. The papers are accessible from the ETH network.
1) Wi-Fi Backscatter: Battery-free internet connectivity to empower
the Internet of Things.
- [Gollakota2014]
S Gollakota, M Reynolds, JR Smith, D. Wetherall
The Emergence of RF-Powered Computing
IEEE Computer (2014)
- [Liu2013]
V. Liu, A. Parks, V. Talla, S. Gollakota, D. Wetherall, J. Smith
Ambient Backscatter: Wireless Communication Out of Thin Air
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2013 (SIGCOMM 2013)
- [Kellogg2014]
B. Kellogg, A. Parks, S. Gollakota, J. R. Smith, D. Wetherall
Wi-Fi Backscatter: Internet Connectivity for RF-Powered Devices.
Proceedings of the ACM SIGCOMM 2014 (SIGCOMM 2014)
2) Seeing is Believing: Proximity-based Authentication
- [Amigo2007]
Alex Varshavsky, Adin Scannell, Anthony LaMarca, Eyal de Lara
Amigo: proximity-based authentication of mobile devices
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Ubiquitous computing (UbiComp 2007)
- [Ensemble2010]
Andre Kalamandeen, Adin Scannell, Eyal de Lara, Anmol Sheth, Anthony LaMarca
Ensemble: Cooperative Proximity-based Authentication
Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services (Mobisys 2010)
- [ProxiMate2011]
Suhas Mathur, Robert Miller, Alexander Varshavsky, Wade Trappe, Narayan Mandayam
ProxiMate: Proximity-based Secure Pairing using Ambient Wireless Signals
Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Mobile systems, applications, and services (MobiSys 2011)
3) ICT for Green: High Frequency Sensing and Analysis of Residential Power Consumption
4) Smart Thermostats: How much can one really save?
- [Yang2013]
Rayoung, Yang, and Newman, Mark W.
Learning from a learning thermostat: lessons for intelligent systems for the home
Proceedings of UbiComp ‘13
- [Lam2014]
Lam, A. H., and Yuan, Y., and Wang D.
An occupant-participatory approach for thermal comfort enhancement and energy conservation in buildings
Proceedings of e-Energy ‘14
- [Scott2011]
Scott, J., Bernheim Brush, A. J., Krumm, J., Meyers, B., Hazas, M., Hodges, S., & Villar, N.
PreHeat: controlling home heating using occupancy prediction
Proceedings of UbiComp ‘11
5) Gesture recognition for smartphones/wearables
- [Song2014]
Song,Jie and Soros, Gabor and Pece ,Fabrizio and Ryan, Fanello Sean and Izadi,Shahram,and Keskin,Cem and Hilliges Otmar
In-air gestures around unmodified mobile devices
Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST 2014)
- [Mistry2014]
Mistry,Pranav and Maes Pattie.
SixthSense: a wearable gestural interface
ACM SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009 Sketches(SIGGRAPH ASIA 2009)
- [Harrison2011]
Harrision,Chris and Benko,Hrvoje and Wilson,Andrew D.
OmniTouch: wearable multitouch interaction everywhere
Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology (UIST 2011)
6) Inside a Smart Thermostat: What influences savings?
- [Mozer1997]
Mozer, M. C., Vidmar, L., & Dodier, R. H.
The neurothermostat: Predictive optimal control of residential heating systems
Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems
- [Erickson2011]
Erickson, V. L., Carreira-Perpinan, M. A., & Cerpa, A. E.
OBSERVE: Occupancy-based system for efficient reduction of HVAC energy
Proceedings of IPSN ‘11
- [Oldewurtel2012]
F. Oldewurtel, A. Parisio, C. N. Jones, D. Gyalistras, M. Gwerder, V. Stauch, B. Lehmann, and M. Morari
Use of model predictive control and weather forecasts for energy efficient building climate control
Energy Build., vol. 45, pp. 15–27
7) Digital Content Creation for Seamless Augmented Reality
- [Langlotz2014]
T. Langlotz, N. Thanhm D. Schmalstieg, R. Grasset
Next
Generation Augmented Reality Browsers, Rich, Seamless, and
Adaptive
Proceedings of the IEEE, 2014
- [Rohmer2014]
K. Rohmer, W. Bueschel, R. Dachselt, T. Grosch
Interactive
Near-Field Illumination for Photorealistic Augmented Reality on Mobile
Devices
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed
and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2014
- [Meilland2013]
M. Meilland, C. Barat, A. Comport
3D High Dynamic Range Dense Visual SLAM and its application to
real-time object re-lighting
Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed
and Augmented Reality (ISMAR), 2013
- [Park2012]
Y. Park, V. Lepetit, W. Woo
Handling
Motion-Blur in 3D Tracking and Rendering for Augmented Reality
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol.
18, No. 9, Sep. 2012
- [Klein2010]
G. Klein, D. W. Murray
Simulating
Low-Cost Cameras for Augmented Reality Compositing
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol.
16, No. 3, May 2010
8) Hand Pose Estimation for Continuous Input Applications
- [Keskin2012]
Keskin, Cem and Kirac, Furkan and Kara, Yunus Emre and Akarun, Lale
Hand Pose Estimation and Hand Shape Classification Using Multi-layered Randomized Decision Forests
Proceedings of the 12th European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2012)
- [Oikonomidis2014]
Oikonomidis, Iason and Lourakis, Manolis I. A. and Argyros, Antonis A.
Evolutionary Quasi-Random Search for Hand Articulations Tracking
Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2014)
- [Tompson2014]
Tompson, Jonathan and Stein, Murphy and Lecun, Yann and Perlin, Ken
Real-Time Continuous Pose Recovery of Human Hands Using Convolutional Networks
ACM Transaction on Graphics (ToG)
9) Computer Vision for mobile robots in GPS denied Areas
10) Shape-Changing Interfaces: Paper-like
- [Lee2008]
Lee, Johnny C. and Hudson, Scott E. and Tse, Edward
Foldable Interactive Displays
Proceedings of the 21st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2008)
- [Steimle2013]
Steimle, Jürgen and Jordt, Andreas and Maes, Pattie
Flexpad: Highly Flexible Bending Interactions for Projected Handheld Displays
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013)
- [Lahey2011]
Lahey, Byron and Girouard, Audrey and Burleson, Winslow and Vertegaal, Roel
PaperPhone: Understanding the Use of Bend Gestures in Mobile Devices with Flexible Electronic Paper Displays
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013)
11) Semantic Localization of Indoor Places
12) Context-aware Intelligent Assistant
- [Petersen2013]
Petersen, N. and Pagani, A. and Stricker, D
Real-time modeling and tracking manual workflows from first-person vision
2013 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR)
- [Miller2012]
Miller, A. and White, B. and Charbonneau, E. and Kanzler, Z. and LaViola, J.J.
Interactive 3D Model Acquisition and Tracking of Building Block Structures
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, Vol. 18, No. 4, APRIL 2012
- [Gupta2012]
Ankit Gupta, Dieter Fox, Brian Curless, and Michael Cohen
DuploTrack: a real-time system for authoring and guiding duplo block assembly
UIST '12 Proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
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