One of the greatest challenges in Ambient Assisted Living is to design health smart homes
that anticipate the needs of its inhabitant while maintaining their safety and comfort. It is thus …

In this paper an automated bathroom activity monitoring system based on acoustics is
described. The system is designed to recognize and classify major activities occurring within …

Imagine a common movie scene: a hero confronts a villain. Captioning such a moment
would at first glance seem as basic as transcribing the dialogue. But consider the choices …

This paper describes how we recognize activities of daily living (ADLs) with our designed
sensor device, which is equipped with heterogeneous sensors such as a camera, a …

The human activity that takes place in meeting rooms or classrooms is reflected in a rich
variety of acoustic events (AE), produced either by the human body or by objects handled by …

This chapter presents the AUDITHIS system which performs real-time sound analysis from
eight microphone channels in Health Smart Home associated to the autonomous speech …

The objective of this research is to develop feature extraction and classification techniques
for the task of sound event recognition (SER) in unstructured environments. Although this …

Until recently few research has been performed in the area of animal sound retrieval. The
authors identify state-of-the-art techniques in general purpose sound recognition by a broad …

This paper presents a new method for evaluating tooth brushing performance using audio
collected from a smartphone. To do this, we use hidden Markov models (HMMs) to …

Fine-grained awareness on how and where energy is spent is being increasingly
recognized as the key to conserve energy. While several solutions to monitor the energy …