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In this paper, we present ViTag to associate user identities across multimodal data, particularly those obtained from cameras and smartphones. ViTag associates a sequence of vision tracker generated bounding boxes with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) data and Wi-Fi Fine Time Measurements (FTM) from smartphones. We formulate the problem as association by sequence to sequence (seq2seq) translation. In this two-step process, our system first performs cross-modal translation using a multimodal LSTM encoder-decoder network (X-Translator) that translates one modality to another, e.g. reconstructing IMU and FTM readings purely from camera bounding boxes. Second, an association module finds identity matches between camera and phone domains, where the translated modality is then matched with the observed data from the same modality. In contrast to existing works, our proposed approach can associate identities in multi-person scenarios where all users may be performing the same activity. Extensive experiments in real-world indoor and outdoor environments demonstrate that online association on camera and phone data (IMU and FTM) achieves an average Identity Precision Accuracy (IDP) of 88.39% on a 1 to 3 seconds window, outperforming the state-of-the-art Vi-Fi (82.93%). Further study on modalities within the phone domain shows the FTM can improve association performance by 12.56% on average. Finally, results from our sensitivity experiments demonstrate the robustness of ViTag under different noise and environment variations.
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ViFiT: Reconstructing Vision Trajectories from IMU and Wi-Fi Fine Time Measurements
Tracking subjects in videos is one of the most widely used functions in camera-based IoT applications such as security surveillance, smart city traffic safety enhancement, vehicle to pedestrian communication and so on. In computer vision domain, tracking is usually achieved by first detecting subjects, then associating detected bounding boxes across video frames. Typically, frames are transmitted to a remote site for processing, incurring high latency and network costs. To address this, we propose ViFiT, a transformerbased model that reconstructs vision bounding box trajectories from phone data (IMU and Fine Time Measurements). It leverages a transformer’s ability of better modeling long-term time series data. ViFiT is evaluated on Vi-Fi Dataset, a large-scale multimodal dataset in 5 diverse real world scenes, including indoor and outdoor environments. Results demonstrate that ViFiT outperforms the state-of-the-art approach for cross-modal reconstruction in LSTM Encoder-Decoder architecture X-Translator and achieves a high frame reduction rate as 97.76% with IMU and Wi-Fi data.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1901355
- PAR ID:
- 10545840
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACM
- Date Published:
- ISBN:
- 9798400703645
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 13 to 18
- Subject(s) / Keyword(s):
- IoT smart city vehicle to pedestrian communication computer vision
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Madrid Spain
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.1145/3615984.3616503
