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EagleSense: Tracking People and Devices in Interactive Spaces using Real-Time Top-View Depth-Sensing

Wu, CJ; Houben, S; Marquardt, N; (2017) EagleSense: Tracking People and Devices in Interactive Spaces using Real-Time Top-View Depth-Sensing. In: Fussell, S and Mark, G and Lampe, C and Schraefel, MC and Hourcade, JP and Appert, C and Wigdor, D, (eds.) CHI '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. pp. 3929-3942). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM): New York, NY, USA. Green open access

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Abstract

Real-time tracking of people's location, orientation and activities is increasingly important for designing novel ubiquitous computing applications. Top-view camera-based tracking avoids occlusion when tracking people while collaborating, but often requires complex tracking systems and advanced computer vision algorithms. To facilitate the prototyping of ubiquitous computing applications for interactive spaces, we developed EagleSense, a real-time human posture and activity recognition system with a single top-view depth-sensing camera. We contribute our novel algorithm and processing pipeline, including details for calculating silhouette-extremities features and applying gradient tree boosting classifiers for activity recognition optimized for top-view depth sensing. EagleSense provides easy access to the real-time tracking data and includes tools for facilitating the integration into custom applications. We report the results of a technical evaluation with 12 participants and demonstrate the capabilities of EagleSense with application case studies.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: EagleSense: Tracking People and Devices in Interactive Spaces using Real-Time Top-View Depth-Sensing
Event: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '17)
Location: Denver, USA
Dates: 06 May 2017 - 11 May 2017
ISBN-13: 9781450346559
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1145/3025453.3025562
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025562
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Depth-infrared sensing; real-time top-view tracking; posture and activity recognition; phone and tablet recognition
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1537634
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