Pub Date : 2014-04-21DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827631
Biswas Jit, Zhu Yongwei, Z. Haihong, J. Maniyeri, C. Zhihao, G. Cuntai
We have made use of the microbending fiber optic sensor to capture ballistocardiographic signals or data for vital signs monitoring in ambient settings, with applications ranging from serious games to ambient assistive living for ageing at home for the elderly. To remove noise and extract the vital signs, the first step of the signal data processing is filtering the signal. In this paper we consider the properties of the digital filter for filtering ballistocardiographic signals. The vital signs waveforms are derived from raw data captured by optical transducers that are placed in ambient locations that are in contact with, but not worn by the subject. Data has been collected from various locations and positions and a detailed trial has been conducted for one of these positions. We iteratively improve the filter design so as to lead to the best parameters. The baseline filter performed reasonably well on data collected in a trial study, with a mean error rate less than 10% for half of the subjects and below 20% for three quarters of the subjects. We also present results of an improved filter that improves the performance both in terms of responsiveness and sensitivity. The improved filter demonstrates consistently less than 12% mean error rate. Principles gleaned from this study may also be applied in designing filters for other types of sensors and for other applications in healthcare.
{"title":"Information processing of optical sensor data in ambient applications","authors":"Biswas Jit, Zhu Yongwei, Z. Haihong, J. Maniyeri, C. Zhihao, G. Cuntai","doi":"10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827631","url":null,"abstract":"We have made use of the microbending fiber optic sensor to capture ballistocardiographic signals or data for vital signs monitoring in ambient settings, with applications ranging from serious games to ambient assistive living for ageing at home for the elderly. To remove noise and extract the vital signs, the first step of the signal data processing is filtering the signal. In this paper we consider the properties of the digital filter for filtering ballistocardiographic signals. The vital signs waveforms are derived from raw data captured by optical transducers that are placed in ambient locations that are in contact with, but not worn by the subject. Data has been collected from various locations and positions and a detailed trial has been conducted for one of these positions. We iteratively improve the filter design so as to lead to the best parameters. The baseline filter performed reasonably well on data collected in a trial study, with a mean error rate less than 10% for half of the subjects and below 20% for three quarters of the subjects. We also present results of an improved filter that improves the performance both in terms of responsiveness and sensitivity. The improved filter demonstrates consistently less than 12% mean error rate. Principles gleaned from this study may also be applied in designing filters for other types of sensors and for other applications in healthcare.","PeriodicalId":269784,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124400605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-04-21DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827619
Masaaki Yamamoto, T. Ohtsuki
In regard to achieving accurate WLAN positioning, a model of the power absorption by a person was experimentally devised. Parameters of the model are estimated using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), and the angle of power absorption is measured by a magnetic sensor built into a smartphone. On the basis of the measured angle, the proposed method compensates the power absorption and the influence of multipath fading. According to evaluations by experiment and simulation, positioning error of the proposed method is 28% to 32% lower than that of the conventional method, and the proposed method achieves RMSE of 2.26 m for sparse deployment of access points.
{"title":"Power compensation in WLAN positioning using a smartphone","authors":"Masaaki Yamamoto, T. Ohtsuki","doi":"10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827619","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827619","url":null,"abstract":"In regard to achieving accurate WLAN positioning, a model of the power absorption by a person was experimentally devised. Parameters of the model are estimated using maximum likelihood estimation (MLE), and the angle of power absorption is measured by a magnetic sensor built into a smartphone. On the basis of the measured angle, the proposed method compensates the power absorption and the influence of multipath fading. According to evaluations by experiment and simulation, positioning error of the proposed method is 28% to 32% lower than that of the conventional method, and the proposed method achieves RMSE of 2.26 m for sparse deployment of access points.","PeriodicalId":269784,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114407418","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-04-21DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827632
Tie Qiu, Zhiping Lin, Y. Shan, Y. S. Meng
The effects of different adaptors on microwave power sensor calibration using direct comparison transfer technique have been investigated in this paper. The calibrations are implemented with a mathematical model developed recently. To verify its accuracy in calculating the calibration factor, a comparison is carried out between the mathematical model developed and those reported by other researchers. The comparison indicates that the model is suitable for microwave power sensor calibrations. For its implementations, a 0 dB adaptor, 10 dB, 20 dB and 30 dB attenuators are used to evaluate the effects from different adaptors. Preliminary results show that when the attenuation of an adaptor increases, the expanded uncertainty of the calibration factor increases correspondingly, following the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM). Moreover, the results of GUM are also verified with the Monte Carlo Method.
{"title":"Microwave power sensor calibration using direct comparison technique with different adaptors","authors":"Tie Qiu, Zhiping Lin, Y. Shan, Y. S. Meng","doi":"10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827632","url":null,"abstract":"The effects of different adaptors on microwave power sensor calibration using direct comparison transfer technique have been investigated in this paper. The calibrations are implemented with a mathematical model developed recently. To verify its accuracy in calculating the calibration factor, a comparison is carried out between the mathematical model developed and those reported by other researchers. The comparison indicates that the model is suitable for microwave power sensor calibrations. For its implementations, a 0 dB adaptor, 10 dB, 20 dB and 30 dB attenuators are used to evaluate the effects from different adaptors. Preliminary results show that when the attenuation of an adaptor increases, the expanded uncertainty of the calibration factor increases correspondingly, following the Guide to the Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM). Moreover, the results of GUM are also verified with the Monte Carlo Method.","PeriodicalId":269784,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129504582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-04-21DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827658
Thomas Pötsch, Lei Pei, K. Kuladinithi, C. Görg
The increasing interest and utilization of Wireless Sensor Networks has increased the requirements of energy saving for battery powered sensor nodes. Even in modern sensor nodes, communication causes the largest part of energy consumption and therefore ways to reduce the amount of data sending are widely concerned. One solution to reduce data transmission is a model-driven data acquisition technique called Derivative-Based Prediction (DBP). Instead of transmitting every measured sample, a sensor node uses algorithms to compute approximated models to represent the measured data. In this work, we developed an algorithm to monitor temperature samples in different environmental scenarios. We also evaluated the algorithm with regard to its efficiency and classified the recorded temperature patterns to enhance the precision. In our tests, the algorithm successfully suppressed up to 99% of data transmissions while the average error of prediction has been kept below 0.1°C.
{"title":"Model-driven data acquisition for temperature sensor readings in Wireless Sensor Networks","authors":"Thomas Pötsch, Lei Pei, K. Kuladinithi, C. Görg","doi":"10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827658","url":null,"abstract":"The increasing interest and utilization of Wireless Sensor Networks has increased the requirements of energy saving for battery powered sensor nodes. Even in modern sensor nodes, communication causes the largest part of energy consumption and therefore ways to reduce the amount of data sending are widely concerned. One solution to reduce data transmission is a model-driven data acquisition technique called Derivative-Based Prediction (DBP). Instead of transmitting every measured sample, a sensor node uses algorithms to compute approximated models to represent the measured data. In this work, we developed an algorithm to monitor temperature samples in different environmental scenarios. We also evaluated the algorithm with regard to its efficiency and classified the recorded temperature patterns to enhance the precision. In our tests, the algorithm successfully suppressed up to 99% of data transmissions while the average error of prediction has been kept below 0.1°C.","PeriodicalId":269784,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128342773","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-04-21DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827618
Yanxu Zheng, S. Rajasegarar, C. Leckie, M. Palaniswami
A major challenge for modern cities is how to maximise the productivity and reliability of urban infrastructure, such as minimising road congestion by making better use of the limited car parking facilities that are available. To achieve this goal, there is growing interest in the capabilities of the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), which enables a wide range of physical objects and environments to be monitored in fine detail by using low-cost, low-power sensing and communication technologies. While there has been growing interest in the IoT for smart cities, there have been few systematic studies that can demonstrate whether practical insights can be extracted from real-life IoT data using advanced data analytics techniques. In this work, we consider a smart car parking scenario based on real-time car parking information that has been collected and disseminated by the City of San Francisco. We investigate whether useful trends and patterns can be automatically extracted from this rich and complex data set. We demonstrate that by using automated clustering and anomaly detection techniques we can identify potentially interesting trends and events in the data. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first such analysis of the scope for clustering and anomaly detection on real-time car parking data in a major urban city.
{"title":"Smart car parking: Temporal clustering and anomaly detection in urban car parking","authors":"Yanxu Zheng, S. Rajasegarar, C. Leckie, M. Palaniswami","doi":"10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827618","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827618","url":null,"abstract":"A major challenge for modern cities is how to maximise the productivity and reliability of urban infrastructure, such as minimising road congestion by making better use of the limited car parking facilities that are available. To achieve this goal, there is growing interest in the capabilities of the emerging Internet of Things (IoT), which enables a wide range of physical objects and environments to be monitored in fine detail by using low-cost, low-power sensing and communication technologies. While there has been growing interest in the IoT for smart cities, there have been few systematic studies that can demonstrate whether practical insights can be extracted from real-life IoT data using advanced data analytics techniques. In this work, we consider a smart car parking scenario based on real-time car parking information that has been collected and disseminated by the City of San Francisco. We investigate whether useful trends and patterns can be automatically extracted from this rich and complex data set. We demonstrate that by using automated clustering and anomaly detection techniques we can identify potentially interesting trends and events in the data. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first such analysis of the scope for clustering and anomaly detection on real-time car parking data in a major urban city.","PeriodicalId":269784,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128770980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-04-21DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827608
Nicholas Chong, Shanhung Wong, B. Vo, S. Nordholm, I. Murray
The "cocktail party problem" has always been a challenging problem to solve and many blind source separation algorithms have been proposed as solutions. This problem has mainly been discussed for non-moving sound sources but it still remains for moving sound sources and high acoustic reverberations. The ability to localise and track multiple moving speakers is a pre-requisite to solving this problem. The aim of this paper is to show that a combination of Degenerate Unmixing Estimation Technique and a Cardinality Balanced Multitarget Multi-Bernoulli Filter provides a viable way to track multiple sound sources and subsequently address the problem of sound separation for moving targets.
{"title":"Multiple moving speaker tracking via degenerate unmixing estimation technique and Cardinality Balanced Multi-target Multi-Bernoulli Filter (DUET-CBMeMBer)","authors":"Nicholas Chong, Shanhung Wong, B. Vo, S. Nordholm, I. Murray","doi":"10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827608","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827608","url":null,"abstract":"The \"cocktail party problem\" has always been a challenging problem to solve and many blind source separation algorithms have been proposed as solutions. This problem has mainly been discussed for non-moving sound sources but it still remains for moving sound sources and high acoustic reverberations. The ability to localise and track multiple moving speakers is a pre-requisite to solving this problem. The aim of this paper is to show that a combination of Degenerate Unmixing Estimation Technique and a Cardinality Balanced Multitarget Multi-Bernoulli Filter provides a viable way to track multiple sound sources and subsequently address the problem of sound separation for moving targets.","PeriodicalId":269784,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)","volume":"84 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126208211","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-04-21DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827628
C. Ledermann, H. Pauer, H. Woern, M. Seyfried, G. Domann, H. Wolter
In robot assisted minimally invasive surgery, flexible instruments are a highly interesting research topic, as they promise more flexibility and new possibilities for surgical interventions. Shape sensors are needed in order to retrieve information about the geometry and especially the tip position of the instrument. Those shape sensors are usually based on Fiber Bragg Gratings. In contrast to other research groups, which e.g. use nitinol wires as a core for their fibers, we follow the approach of casting the fibers in soft materials. For our latest prototype, a special ORMOCER® material has been used, which is an inorganic-organic hybridpolymer with adjustable properties. The fabrication of the sensor is described in detail. The reproducibility of the wavelength measurements has been validated for several shapes, proving the reasonableness of our approach.
{"title":"Using ORMOCER®s as casting material for a 3D shape sensor based on Fiber Bragg gratings","authors":"C. Ledermann, H. Pauer, H. Woern, M. Seyfried, G. Domann, H. Wolter","doi":"10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827628","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827628","url":null,"abstract":"In robot assisted minimally invasive surgery, flexible instruments are a highly interesting research topic, as they promise more flexibility and new possibilities for surgical interventions. Shape sensors are needed in order to retrieve information about the geometry and especially the tip position of the instrument. Those shape sensors are usually based on Fiber Bragg Gratings. In contrast to other research groups, which e.g. use nitinol wires as a core for their fibers, we follow the approach of casting the fibers in soft materials. For our latest prototype, a special ORMOCER® material has been used, which is an inorganic-organic hybridpolymer with adjustable properties. The fabrication of the sensor is described in detail. The reproducibility of the wavelength measurements has been validated for several shapes, proving the reasonableness of our approach.","PeriodicalId":269784,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)","volume":"615 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116470334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-04-21DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827638
H. Johansen, Wei Zhang, J. Hurley, D. Johansen
Data from affordable body-sensor devices that monitor personal metrics like heart-rate, weight, and movements are changing how athletes train and perform. Existing sport-analytic tools are, however, mostly monolithic proprietary systems where athletes have little control over how their data is used and managed over time. This paper describes Girji, security centered body-sensor data acquisition and management system that embeds a novel form of an active and operational type of computational consent, which gives athletes a high level of control of how their data can be used. This security architecture is implemented using a novel combination of object capabilities that embed executable code and individual meta-code execution containers for flexible consent policies.
{"title":"Management of body-sensor data in sports analytic with operative consent","authors":"H. Johansen, Wei Zhang, J. Hurley, D. Johansen","doi":"10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827638","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827638","url":null,"abstract":"Data from affordable body-sensor devices that monitor personal metrics like heart-rate, weight, and movements are changing how athletes train and perform. Existing sport-analytic tools are, however, mostly monolithic proprietary systems where athletes have little control over how their data is used and managed over time. This paper describes Girji, security centered body-sensor data acquisition and management system that embeds a novel form of an active and operational type of computational consent, which gives athletes a high level of control of how their data can be used. This security architecture is implemented using a novel combination of object capabilities that embed executable code and individual meta-code execution containers for flexible consent policies.","PeriodicalId":269784,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)","volume":"283 2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121140044","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-04-21DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827696
Xiaochao Qu, Hyoung-Joong Kim
Linear Discriminant regression classification (L-DRC) embeds the fisher criterion into the linear regression classification (LRC) and can achieve more robust classification performance for face recognition. In this paper, we propose an enhanced discriminant linear regression classification (EDLRC) algorithm to further improve the discriminant power of LDRC. When calculating the between-class reconstruction error (BCRE), only those classes that are more easily to be misclassified into are considered. After maximizing the ratio of BCRE and within-class reconstruction error (WCRE), the obtained projection matrix in EDLRC is more effective than the projection matrix in LDRC, which is verified by extensive experiments.
{"title":"Enhanced discriminant linear regression classification for face recognition","authors":"Xiaochao Qu, Hyoung-Joong Kim","doi":"10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827696","url":null,"abstract":"Linear Discriminant regression classification (L-DRC) embeds the fisher criterion into the linear regression classification (LRC) and can achieve more robust classification performance for face recognition. In this paper, we propose an enhanced discriminant linear regression classification (EDLRC) algorithm to further improve the discriminant power of LDRC. When calculating the between-class reconstruction error (BCRE), only those classes that are more easily to be misclassified into are considered. After maximizing the ratio of BCRE and within-class reconstruction error (WCRE), the obtained projection matrix in EDLRC is more effective than the projection matrix in LDRC, which is verified by extensive experiments.","PeriodicalId":269784,"journal":{"name":"2014 IEEE Ninth International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP)","volume":"71 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122790368","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2014-04-21DOI: 10.1109/ISSNIP.2014.6827702
Fang-jing Wu, Tie Luo
Participatory sensing has become a promising data collection approach to crowdsourcing data from multi-modal data sources. This paper proposes a generic participatory sensing framework that consists of a set of well-defined modules in support of diverse use cases. This framework incorporates a concept of “human-as-a-sensor” into participatory sensing and allows the public crowd to contribute human observations as well as sensor measurements from their mobile devices. We specifically address two issues: incentive and extensibility, where the former refers to motivating participants to contribute high-quality data while the latter refers to accommodating heterogeneous and uncertain data sources. To address the incentive issue, we design an incentive engine to attract high-quality contributed data independent of data modalities. This engine works together with a novel social network that we introduce into participatory sensing, where participants are linked together and interact with each other based on data quality and quantity they have contributed. To address the extensibility issue, the proposed framework embodies application-agnostic design and provides an interface to external datasets. To demonstrate and verify this framework, we have developed a prototype mobile application called imReporter, which crowdsources hybrid (image-text) reports from participants in an urban city, and incorporates an external dataset from a public data mall. A pilot study was also carried out with 15 participants for 3 consecutive weeks, and the result confirms that our proposed framework fulfills its design goals.
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