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Video scene analysis is a well-investigated area where researchers have devoted efforts to detect and classify people and objects in the scene. However, real-life scenes are more complex: the intrinsic states of the objects (e.g., machine operating states or human vital signals) are often overlooked by vision-based scene analysis. Recent work has proposed a radio frequency (RF) sensing technique, wireless vibrometry, that employs wireless signals to sense subtle vibrations from the objects and infer their internal states. We envision that the combination of video scene analysis with wireless vibrometry form a more comprehensive understanding of the scene, namely "rich scene analysis". However, the RF sensors used in wireless vibrometry only provide time series, and it is challenging to associate these time series data with multiple real-world objects. We propose a real-time RF-vision sensor fusion system, Capricorn, that efficiently builds a cross-modal correspondence between visual pixels and RF time series to better understand the complex natures of a scene. The vision sensors in Capricorn model the surrounding environment in 3D and obtain the distances of different objects. In the RF domain, the distance is proportional to the signal time-of-flight (ToF), and we can leverage the ToF to separate the RF time series corresponding to each object. The RF-vision sensor fusion in Capricorn brings multiple benefits. The vision sensors provide environmental contexts to guide the processing of RF data, which helps us select the most appropriate algorithms and models. Meanwhile, the RF sensor yields additional information that is originally invisible to vision sensors, providing insight into objects' intrinsic states. Our extensive evaluations show that Capricorn real-timely monitors multiple appliances' operating status with an accuracy of 97%+ and recovers vital signals like respirations from multiple people. A video (https://youtu.be/b-5nav3Fi78) demonstrates the capability of Capricorn.
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Demo abstract: Towards Real-Time Rich Scene Analysis Using Vision-Guided Wireless Vibrometry
Intelligent systems commonly employ vision sensors like cameras to analyze a scene. Recent work has proposed a wireless sensing technique, wireless vibrometry, to enrich the scene analysis generated by vision sensors. Wireless vibrometry employs wireless signals to sense subtle vibrations from the objects and infer their internal states. However, it is difficult for pure Radio-Frequency (RF) sensing systems to obtain objects' visual appearances (e.g., object types and locations), especially when an object is inactive. Thus, most existing wireless vibrometry systems assume that the number and the types of objects in the scene are known. The key to getting rid of these presumptions is to build a connection between wireless sensor time series and vision sensor images. We present Capricorn, a vision-guided wireless vibrometry system. In Capricorn, the object type information from vision sensors guides the wireless vibrometry system to select the most appropriate signal processing pipeline. The object tracking capability in computer vision also helps wireless systems efficiently detect and separate vibrations from multiple objects in real time.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1705135
- PAR ID:
- 10494741
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACM
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Proceedings of the 20th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems
- ISBN:
- 9781450398862
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 786 to 787
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- Conference Paper:
- https://doi.org/10.1145/3560905.3568060
