Fusing WiFi and video sensing for accurate group detection in indoor spaces

Kasthuri Jayarajah, Zaman Lantra, Archan Misra

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Abstract

Understanding one's group context in indoor spaces is useful for many reasons - e.g., at a shopping mall, knowing a customer's group context can help in offering context-specific incentives, or estimating taxi demand for customers exiting the mall. Group detection and monitoring using WiFi-based indoor location traces fails when users are invisible (either because they don't carry smartphones, or because their WiFi is turned OFF) or when location tracking is inaccurate. In this paper, we propose a multi-modal group detection system that fuses two independent modes: video and WiFi, for detecting groups with low latency and high accuracy. We present preliminary results from a micro-study with 20 group episodes and report an overall precision of 0.81 and recall of 0.9, an improvement of over ≈20% over WiFi-based group detection.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationWPA 2016 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Physical Analytics, co-located with MobiSys 2016
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages49-54
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450343282
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 26 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event3rd International Workshop on Physical Analytics, WPA 2016 - Singapore, Singapore
Duration: Jun 26 2016 → …

Publication series

NameWPA 2016 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Physical Analytics, co-located with MobiSys 2016

Conference

Conference3rd International Workshop on Physical Analytics, WPA 2016
Country/TerritorySingapore
CitySingapore
Period6/26/16 → …

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Information Systems
  • Software
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications

Keywords

  • Group Monitoring;
  • Multi-Modal Sensing;
  • Sensor Fusion

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