In recent years, we have witnessed a rapid surge in assisted living technologies due to a
rapidly aging society. The aging population, the increasing cost of formal health care, the …

Context-aware systems are pervading everyday life, therefore context modeling is becoming
a relevant issue and an expanding research field. This survey has the goal to provide a …

Context-awareness is emerging as a central issue in ubiquitous computing research.
Context-aware computing refers to the idea that computing devices can sense and react to …

Human pose estimation refers to accurately estimating the position of the human body from
a single RGB image and detecting the location of the body. It serves as the basis for several …

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) involve various emerging technologies and
applications. This paper presents a comprehensive review of recent advances on …

In this article we present a review of selected literature of context-aware pervasive
computing while integrating theory and practice from various disciplines in order to construct …

The technologies underpinning smart homes offer promising solutions in the realm of
assistive living. At present, there are a number of smart home applications being developed …

The aim of the EU-funded project SOPRANO is to assist older Europeans to lead a more
independent life in their familiar environment by means of a next generation smart home …

Recognising human activities is a problem characteristic of a wider class of systems in which
algorithms interpret multi-modal sensor data to extract semantically meaningful …

In this paper, we propose a security system for secure transmission of medical images in
telemedicine applications. The system couples an IWT-LSB watermarking and an encryption …