Ubiquitous Computing

September 14, 2015 / Last updated : September 2, 2020 irfan Presentations

Presentation at Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrücken (2015): "Video Analysis and Enhancement"

Video Analysis and Enhancement: Spatio-Temporal Methods for Extracting Content from Videos and Enhancing Video Output Irfan Essa (prof.irfanessa.com) Georgia Institute of Technology School of Interactive Computing Hosted by Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik in Saarbrucken (Bernt Schiele, Director of Computer Vision and Multimodal Computing) Abstract  In this talk, I will start with describing the pervasiveness of image and video content, […]
September 8, 2015 / Last updated : March 25, 2023 irfan Ubicomp

Paper in Ubicomp 2015: "A Practical Approach for Recognizing Eating Moments with Wrist-Mounted Inertial Sensing"

Paper Abstract Recognizing when eating activities take place is one of the key challenges in automated food intake monitoring. Despite progress over the years, most proposed approaches have been largely impractical for everyday usage, requiring multiple onbody sensors or specialized devices such as neck collars for swallow detection. In this paper, we describe the implementation […]
September 14, 2013 / Last updated : February 21, 2021 irfan Ubicomp

Paper in ACM Ubicomp 2013 "Technological approaches for addressing privacy concerns when recognizing eating behaviors with wearable cameras"

[bibtex file=IrfanEssaWS.bib key=2013-Thomaz-TAAPCWREBWWC]  Abstract First-person point-of-view (FPPOV) images taken by wearable cameras can be used to better understand people’s eating habits. Human computation is a way to provide effective analysis of FPPOV images in cases where algorithmic approaches currently fail. However, privacy is a serious concern. We provide a framework, the privacy-saliency matrix, for understanding […]
October 14, 2000 / Last updated : February 21, 2021 irfan Publications

Paper in IEEE Personal Communications (2000) on “Ubiquitous sensing for smart and aware environments”

Abstract As computing technology continues to become increasingly pervasive and ubiquitous, we envision the development of environments that can sense what we are doing and support our daily activities. In this article, we outline our efforts toward building such environments and discuss the importance of a sensing and signal-understanding infrastructure that leads to awareness of […]