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Activity recognition has applications in a variety of human-in-the-loop settings such as smart home health monitoring, green building energy and occupancy management, intelligent transportation, and participatory sensing. While fine-grained activity recognition systems and approaches help enable a multitude of novel applications, discovering them with non-intrusive ambient sensor systems pose challenging design, as well as data processing, mining, and activity recognition issues. In this paper, we develop a low-cost heterogeneous Radar based Activity Monitoring (RAM) system for recognizing fine-grained activities. We exploit the feasibility of using an array of heterogeneous micro-doppler radars to recognize low-level activities. We prototype a short-range and a long-range radar system and evaluate the feasibility of using the system for fine-grained activity recognition. In our evaluation, using real data traces, we show that our system can detect fine-grained user activities with 92.84% accuracy.
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Generative, High-Fidelity Network Traces
Recently, much attention has been devoted to the development of generative network traces and their potential use in supplementing real-world data for a variety of data-driven networking tasks. Yet, the utility of existing synthetic traffic approaches are limited by their low fidelity: low feature granularity, insufficient adherence to task constraints, and subpar class coverage. As effective network tasks are increasingly reliant on raw packet captures, we advocate for a paradigm shift from coarse-grained to fine-grained traffic generation compliant to constraints. We explore this path employing controllable diffusion-based methods. Our preliminary results suggest its effectiveness in generating realistic and fine-grained network traces that mirror the complexity and variety of real network traffic required for accurate service recognition. We further outline the challenges and opportunities of this approach, and discuss a research agenda towards text-to-traffic synthesis.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1662487
- PAR ID:
- 10483618
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACM
- Date Published:
- ISBN:
- 9798400704154
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 131 to 138
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Cambridge MA USA
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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Accepted Manuscript1.0
- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3626111.3628196
