Human-Centric Sensing Technology and Systems

Dear Colleagues,

Human-centric sensing plays a crucially important role in the domains of smart-home and office environments, including safety protection, well-being monitoring/management, healthcare, and smart-appliance interaction. Various physical or physiological sensors are interconnected and designed to sense a broad spectrum of contexts for human beings, laying the foundation of pervasive computing. However, sensor technologies have several limitations relating to deployment cost, usability, and adherence issues, which render them unacceptable for practical use.

Consequently, the pursuit of convenience in human perception necessitates a wireless, sensorless, and contactless sensing paradigm. Recent novel technologies have shown the potential of reusing wireless signals (such as WiFi, mmWave, RFID, LoRa, acoustic, light, and radiofrequency) or environmental infrastructures originally designed for lighting or data transmission to sense human activities. Such studies thereby realize a set of emerging applications, ranging from intrusion detection, daily activity recognition, and gesture recognition to monitoring of vital signs and user identification, involving even finer-grained motion sensing. Relevant human-centric sensing technologies and solutions are still in their early stages.

The Guest Editors encourage submissions of papers addressing physical models, technologies, and applications of human-centric sensing. Original research contributions, tutorials, case studies, and review papers are also welcomed. Manuscripts should provide content that is accessible to general audiences working in the field of sensing systems.

Topics of interest for this Special Issue include (but are not limited to):

• Human-centric wireless signal analytic model;
• Intrusion detection;
• Identity recognition;
• Activity recognition;
• Gesture detection and recognition;
• Vital signs monitoring;
• Localization and tracking;
• Learning algorithms and models for human behavior perception;
• Applications and deployment experiences.

Prof. Dr. Feng Hong
Dr. Jiadi Yu
Dr. Yan Wang
Guest Editors

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