HCCS Program

March 21, 2022

(All the time slots are reported with CET timezone)

2:15-2:30 pm Welcome remarks

Chair: Cecilia O. Alm (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

2:30-3:30 pm Keynote and Q&A: Claudio Bettini (University of Milan, Italy)
Sensing Human Activities: Challenges and Opportunities

Chair: Franca Delmastro (IIT-CNR, Italy)


Break 3:30-3:45 pm


3:45-4:30 pm Session I: HUMAN SENSING - EDGE AND ML ARCHITECTURES (15 min talk + 5 min Q&A)

Chair: Michele Girolami (ISTI-CNR, Italy)

  • An Energy Efficient and Elastic Edge-Cloud for Computational Sensing in Smart Geriatric Homes, Amit Swain (TCS Research and Innovation, India); Rajat Das (TCS Innovation Lab, India); Avik Ghose (Tata Consultancy Services, India); Smriti Rani (Tata Consultancy Services, India); Chirabrata Bhaumik (Tata Consultancy Services & TCS Research, India,)

  • WeMoD: A Machine Learning Approach for Wearable and Mobile Physical Activity Prediction, Dimitrios Vasdekis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Sofia Yfantidou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Stefanos Efstathiou (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece); Athena Vakali (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece).


Break 4:30-4:45 pm


4:45-5:45 pm Session 2: HUMAN SENSING - EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES (15 min talk + 5 min Q&A)

Chair: Reynold Bailey (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

  • Tracking Daily Routines of Elderly Users through Acoustic Sensing: An unsupervised Learning Approach, Pavlos Nicolaou (University of Kent, United Kingdom/Great Britain); Christos Efstratiou (University of Kent, United Kingdom/Great Britain)

  • Sleep Sound Event Detection Using ANC-Enabled Earbuds, Kenneth Christofferson (University of Toronto, Canada); Alex Mariakakis (University of Toronto, Canada); Xuyang Chen (Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China); Zeyu Wang (Tsinghua University, China); Yuntao Wang (Tsinghua University, China & University of Washington, USA)

  • Detecting Screen Presence with Activity-oriented RGB Camera in Egocentric Videos, Amit Adate (Northwestern University, USA); Soroush Shahi (Northwestern University, USA); Rawan Alharbi (Northwestern University, USA); Sougata Sen (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Goa, India); Yang Gao (Northwestern University, USA); Aggelos K. Katsaggelos (Northwestern University, USA); Nabil Alshurafa (Northwestern University, USA)


5:45-6:45 pm Roundtable Discussion and Concluding Remarks

Chairs: Cecilia O. Alm (Rochester Institute of Technology, USA)

Franca Delmastro (IIT-CNR, Italy)