Balancing thermal comfort datasets: We GAN, but should we?

M Quintana, S Schiavon, KW Tham… - Proceedings of the 7th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Thermal comfort assessment for the built environment has become more available to
analysts and researchers due to the proliferation of sensors and subjective feedback …

Towards class-balancing human comfort datasets with gans

M Quintana, C Miller - Proceedings of the 6th ACM International …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Human comfort datasets are widely used in smart buildings. From thermal comfort prediction
to personalized indoor environments, labelled subjective responses from participants in an …

Heterogeneous transfer learning for thermal comfort modeling

W Hu, Y Luo, Z Lu, Y Wen - Proceedings of the 6th ACM international …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
For decades, the Predicted Mean Vote (PMV) model has been adopted to evaluate building
occupants' thermal comfort. However, recent studies argue that the PMV model is inaccurate …

A hybrid deep transfer learning strategy for thermal comfort prediction in buildings

N Somu, A Sriram, A Kowli, K Ramamritham - Building and Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
Since the thermal condition of living spaces affects the occupants' productivity and their
quality of life, it is important to design effective heating, ventilation and air conditioning …

Unsupervised personal thermal comfort prediction via adversarial domain adaptation

HP Das, S Schiavon, CJ Spanos - Proceedings of the 8th ACM …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Personal thermal comfort models aim to predict an individual's thermal comfort response,
instead of the average response of a large group. However, conducting large-scale …

Addressing data inadequacy challenges in personal comfort models by combining pretrained comfort models

T Zhang, J Gu, O Ardakanian, J Kim - Energy and Buildings, 2022 - Elsevier
Occupant thermal-comfort complaints are the biggest operational headache of facilities
managers. Many of the complaints can be attributed to the diverse nature of individuals' …

Transfer learning for thermal comfort prediction in multiple cities

N Gao, W Shao, MS Rahaman, J Zhai, K David… - Building and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract The HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) system is an important part of
a building, which constitutes up to 40% of building energy usage. The main purpose of …

Time series-based deep learning model for personal thermal comfort prediction

A Chennapragada, D Periyakoil, HP Das… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Personal thermal comfort models are crucial for the future of human-in-the-loop HVAC
control in energy-efficient buildings. Individual comfort models, compared to average …

Review on occupant-centric thermal comfort sensing, predicting, and controlling

J Xie, H Li, C Li, J Zhang, M Luo - Energy and Buildings, 2020 - Elsevier
Ensuring occupants' thermal comfort and work performance is one of the primary objectives
for building environment conditioning systems. In recent years, there emerged many …

Demystifying thermal comfort in smart buildings: An interpretable machine learning approach

W Zhang, Y Wen, KJ Tseng, G Jin - IEEE Internet of Things …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thermal comfort is a key consideration in smart buildings and a number of comfort models
are available nowadays to evaluate the comfort level of occupants. However, the models are …