Past news
Our paper "XLearn: Learning Activity Labels Across Heterogeneous Datasets" has been accepted by ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology, 17 Oct, 2019.
Run the AAL summer school at Heriot-Watt University, 6-8 August 2019.
Leo's paper gets accepted by DSSA' 19. 26 July 2019.
Andrea's PerCom extension paper "Representation Learning for Minority and Subtle Activities in a Smart Home Environmen" is accepted by IOS Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments on 5 July 2019.
Our paper on "Lifelong learning in sensor-based human activity recognition" accepted by IEEE Pervasive Magazine. Apr 2019.
Leo's paper on "Distributed self-monitoring sensor networks via Markov switching dynamic linear models" is accepted at SASO '19. April 2019.
Attended the kickoff meeting for our InnovateUK project with Tapoly, 26 Mar 2019.
Presented two papers at PerCom '19, Kyoto, Japan, 12 Mar 2019: Representation Learning and Multi-sound Classification.
Gave a keynote talk at ARDUOUS: 3rd International Workshop on Annotation of useR Data for UbiquitOUs Systems (Kristina Yordanova, Adeline Paiement, Emma Tonkin), hosted at PerCom '19, Kyoto, Japan, 11 Mar 2019.
Congratulations to Esma Mansouri Benssassi to have her paper on "Speech Emotion Recognition With Early Visual Cross-Modal Enhancement Using Spiking Neural Networks" accepted by IJCNN '19: the international conference on neural networks. 8 Mar 2019.
Congratulations to Lei Fang to have his paper on "Discovery and recognition of emerging human activities using a hierarchical mixture of directional statistical models" accepted by IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. 2019.
IEEE SMC Webinar on lifelong learning in human activity recognition. 1 Feb 2019.
Invited talk on new emerging activity recognition at the UK-China Doctoral Academic Forum, December 2018.
Invited talk on lifelong learning in sensor-based human activity recognition in the School of Computer Science and Mathematics. Heriot-Watt University, November 2018.
Esma's paper on "Bio-Inspired Spiking Neural Networks for Facial Expression Recognition: Generalisation Investigation", accepted by TPNC 2018. 07 September 2018.
Submitted the revised paper on "Lifelong learning in sensor-based human activity recognition" to IEEE Pervasive. 31 August 2018.
Promoted to be EPSRC full review college member. 20 August 2018.
Diversity Computing is out on ACM Interactions. August 2018.
Thanks to Amazon to provide us AWS Cloud Credits for our research, 25th July 2018.
Thanks to NVIDIA to provide us another GPU to support our research on lifelong learning in sensor-based human activity recognition, 23rd July 2018.
Juan Ye. SLearn: Share learning human activity labels across multiple datasets. Submitted to PMC. June 2018.
Lei Fang, Juan Ye and Simon Dobson. Discovery and recognition of emerging human activities by hierarchical mixture of directional statistical models. Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering. June 2018.
My paper on “SLearn: Share learning human activity labels across multiple datasets”, accepted by PerCom' 18. 2018.
Our paper on "Wearable assistive technologies for autism: opportunities and challenges" has been accepted by IEEE Pervasive Magazine's special issue on augmenting humans, accepted, 4th September 2017.
Guest editor on the special issue "ambient intelligence environments" of Information, deadline for submission 30 September 2018.
Attended EPSRC ICT prioritisation panel discussion. September 2017.
Congratulations to Esma Mansouri Benssassi (my PhD student) to have her paper on "A decentralised multimodal integration of social signals: a bio-inspired approach" accepted by the ICMI 2017 Doctoral Consortium, 3rd August 2017.
Thanks to NVIDIA to provide us GPU to support our research on bio-inspired multi-modal integration of social signals, 10th July 2017.
Gave a talk on knowledge-driven activity recognition at the EU ACROSS training event held at De Montfort University, June 2017.
Iveta Dulova, my final-year project student, has won the prize for “Best Final Year Student” at the 10th BCSWomen Lovelace Colloquium. Her poster title is “SensorCube: An end-to-end framework for conducting research via mobile sensing“. [link]. May 2017.
Gave a talk on sensor-based human activity recognition at the school of Computing Science and Mathematics at the University of Stirling. 5th May 2017.
Yuchen Zhao, my first PhD student (co-supervised with Tristan Henderson as the main supervisor), has successfully defended his thesis with minor correction, 27th April 2017.
Attend EPSRC Early Career Workshop in Sheffield, Feb 2017.
Serve as a PC for UIC 2017.
Join in EPSRC Review College 2016
Welcome to new PhD students starting on September 2016
Esma: working on multi sensory cue integration with virtual sensory signals
Stuart: co-supervising with Prof. David Borcher from Math on capture-recapture estimation
2016-17 Second Year Induction slides here. 5th September 2016.
Paper "Discovery and recognition of unknown activities" accepted by the international workshop of HASCA 2016, co-hosted with Ubicomp 2016. 30th June 2016.
Paper "Capturing social cues with imaging glasses" accepted by the international workshop of BodySenseUX@Ubicomp 2016. 30th June 2016.
Paper "Detecting Abnormal Events on Binary Sensors in Smart Home Environments" accepted by Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 21st June 2016.
Keynote talk on "New challenges and research trend in human activity recognition" at ECAAS, co-hosted with MDM'16, Porto, Portugal, 16th June 2016, [slides].
Oral presentation and poster at the ENTER Mental Health & SDHI Conference, in St Andrews, 3rd June 2016 [slides].
Give a talk at the School of Computer Science at the University of Glasgow on "Emotion detection on the move" [slides], April 2016.
Give a talk at the Bioinformatics workshop, hosted in the School of Medicine, St Andrews on "Inferring human behaviours from temporal sensor data using various machine learning approaches", January, 2016.
Yuchen Zhao's paper "The effect of privacy concerns on privacy recommenders" accepted to be published at IUI'16.
Thomas Eddie has presented his senior honour project in his paper "Are our mobile phones driving us apart? Divert attention from mobile phones back to physical conversation!" at the International Workshop on Intelligent Attention Management on Mobile Devices, cohosted with MobieHCI, Copenhagen, Denmark, 24th August 2015.
Our paper “Using Temporal Correlation and Time Series to Detect Missing Activity-Driven Sensor Events" has been accepted by CoMoRea (collocated with Percom 2015), 16th Jan 2015.
Our paper "Semantic Web Technologies in Pervasive Computing: A Survey and Research Roadmap" has been accepted by PMC, 27 December 2014.
Present whale behaviour analysis work on MOCHA workshop, St Andrews, December 2014.
Our paper "Fault Detection for Binary Sensors in Smart Home Environments" has been accepted by Percom 2015 (acceptance rate = 15%, 29 out of 196), 25 Nov 2014.
Yuchen's paper "Privacy-Aware Location Privacy Preference Recommendations" has been accepted by Mobiquitous 2014 (acceptance rate = 19.3%, 31 out of 160). 26th September, 2014.
Yuchen's poster "Recommending Location Privacy Preferences in Ubiquitous Computing" has been accepted by ACM WiSec'14. 26th June, 2014.
Submit a paper "Spatial awareness in pervasive ecosystem" to Knowledge Engineering Review. 24th Mar 2014.
Franco Zambonelli, Andrea Omicini, Bernhard Anzengruber, Gabriella Castelli, Francesco DeAngelis, Giovanna di Marzo Serugendo, Simon Dobson, José-Luis Fernandez Marquez, Alois Ferscha, Marco Mamei, Stefano Mariani, Ambra Molesini, Sara Montagna, Jussi Nieminen, Danilo Pianini, Alberto Rosi, Graeme Stevenson, Mirko Viroli and Juan Ye (2015). Developing pervasive multiagent systems with nature-inspired co-ordination. Submitted to Pervasive and Mobile Computing.
Start working with CREEM St Andrews on analysing tagged whale behaviour data, Summer 2014.
Our paper "KCAR: A knowledge-driven approach for concurrent activity recognition" has been accepted by Pervasive and Mobile Computing. 17th Jan 2014.