Program at glance

Room 1 SCW 460 (56)

Room 2 SCE 203 (51)
Room 3 SCE 217 (59)
Room 4 SCW 462 (62)
Room 5 SCW 466 (56)
Room 6 SCW 468 (62)
Room 7 SCW 464 (55)

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MONDAY, 13

Room 1 - BRAIN

BRAIN 2023: 4th Workshop on Blockchain theoRy and ApplicatIoNs

9:00-10:30 - Session 1: Opening and Keynote

9:00-9:15 Workshop opening

9:15-10:30 Keynote

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee break

11:00 - 13:00 - Session 2: Smart contracts Analysis

1. On the Use of Deep Neural Networks for Security Vulnerabilities

Detection in Smart Contracts
Martina Rossini (University of Bologna, Italy); Mirko Zichichi (Universidad
Politécnica de Madrid, Spain); Stefano Ferretti (University of Urbino, Italy)
2. MichelsonLiSA: A Static Analyzer for Tezos
Luca Olivieri (University of Verona, Italy); Thomas Jensen (University of
Rennes 1, France); Luca Negrini (University of Venice, Italy); Fausto Spoto
(University of Verona, Italy)
3. ChoEn: A Smart Contract Based Choreography Enforcer
Francesco Spegni (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy); Lorenzo Fratini
and Massimiliano Pirani (Università Politecnica Delle Marche, Italy); Luca
Spalazzi (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy)
4. An Empirical Study of Impact of Solidity Compiler Updates on
Vulnerabilities
Chihiro Kado and Naoto Yanai (Osaka University, Japan); Jason Paul Cruz
(Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Shingo Okamura (National
Institute of Technology, Nara College, Japan)

13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch Break

14.00 - 15.30 - Session 3: Tutorial

The impact of Distributed ledger Technology on the evolution of electronic voting

systems

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30 - Session 4: DLT theory and applications

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 1. A decentralized approach to award game achievements
Francesco Bruschi, Donatella Sciuto and Tommaso Paulon (Politecnico di
Milano, Italy); Andrea Marchesi (Italy)
2. Soulbound Token for Covid-19 Vaccination certification
Maria Ilaria Lunesu (University of Cagliari, Italy); Roberto Tonelli (Università
degli studi di Cagliari, Italy); Andrea Pinna and Simone Sansoni (University of
Cagliari, Italy)
3. Optimizing Data Distribution to Balance Scalability-Redundancy Trade-
off in Blockchains
Azam Khan and Ashiq Anjum (University of Leicester, United Kingdom (Great
Britain)

17:30 - 17:50 - Session 5: Closing

Room 2 - TELMED

TELMED 2023: 2nd workshop on Telemedicine and e-Health

evolution in the new era of social distancing

09:15 - 09:30 - Introduction to TELMED Workshop

09:30 - 10:30 - Session 1: Health monitoring for Telemedicine Applications I

1. E-Health monitoring using camera: Measurement of vital parameters in a

noisy environment
Bushra Jalil (Scuola Superiore Sant Anna, Italy); Vincenzo Lionetti
(Fondazione Toscana Gabriele Monasterio, Italy); Luca Valcarenghi (Scuola
Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)
2. Detecting an ataxia-type disease from acceleration data
Eileen Kraenzle (University of Tübingen, Germany); Stephan Sigg (Aalto
University, Finland)

10:30 – 11:00 — Break

11:00 – 12:00 — Keynote

"Instrumentation and Measurement in Medical, Biomedical and Healthcare Systems”,

Prof. Eros Pasero, Politecnico di Torino (Italy).

12:00 – 13:00 — Session 2: Systems for telemedicine and e-Health

1. CHARLIE: A Chatbot that Recommends Daily Fitness and Diet Plans

Deepanjali Chowdhury (Texas A&M University, USA); Ahana Roy (Howard
County Public School System, USA); Sreenivasan Ramasamy Ramasamy

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 Ramamurthy (Bowie State University, USA); Nirmalya Roy (University of
Maryland Baltimore County, USA)
2. A perspective of telemedicine videostreaming systems for emergency care
Sujit Kumar Sahu ,Anna Lina Ruscelli, Gabriele Cecchetti, Molka Gharbaoui
and Piero Castoldi (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy)

13:00 – 14:00 — Lunch break

14:00 – 15:00 — Session 3: Health monitoring for Telemedicine Applications II

1. Electrodermal Activity in the Evaluation of Engagement for Telemedicine

Applications
Giulia Masi (Unito, Italy); Gianluca Amprimo (Politecnico di Torino & National
Research Council- IEIIT, Italy); Irene Rechichi (Politecnico di Torino, Italy);
Claudia Ferraris (CNR - IEIIT, Italy); Lorenzo Priano (Unito, Italy)
2. Evaluation of a Depth Camera as e-Health Sensor for Contactless Respiration
Monitoring
Steffen Brinkmann, Jochen Kempfle, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Jonas Pöhler
(Universität Siegen, Germany)

15:00 - 15:15 — Workshop conclusions

Room 3 - PerVehicle and PERSASN

PERVEHICLE 2023: 5th International Workshop on Pervasive

Computing for Vehicular Systems

9:00-9:15 - Session 1: Welcome and introduction

9:15-10:30 Session 2: Traffic estimation and control

1. A Joint Traffic Flow Estimation and Prediction Approach for Urban

Networks
Ruiyuan Jiang (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China); Shangbo Wang
(Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China & School of Advanced Technology,
China); Valerio Selis (University of Liverpool, United Kingdom (Great Britain));
Yuli Zhang (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China)
2. A novel Multi-Agent Deep RL Approach for Traffic Signal Control
Shijie Wang (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong); Shangbo
Wang (Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University, China & School of Advanced
Technology, China)
3. Traffic congestion mitigation by deceleration control with short-term
velocity forecasting using V2X

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 Tetsuya Fukumaru and Hiroaki Morino (Shibaura Institute of Technology,
Japan)

10:30-11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00-11:40 Session 3: Keynote

Keynote: Hirozumi Yamaguchi (Osaka University, Japan) “Location Context and

Knowledge Digitalization for Human-centric Digital Twin”

11:40-13:00 - Session 4: Vehicular Networks

1. Anonymization Use Cases for Data Transfer in the Automotive Domain

Andrea Fieschi (University of Stuttgart & Mercedes-Benz AG, Germany);
Pascal Hirmer (University of Stuttgart, Germany); Rose Sturm and Martin
Eisele (Mercedes-Benz AG, Germany); Bernhard Mitschang (University of
Stuttgart, Germany)
2. Efficient Vehicle-Centric Networking for Ultra Dense Vehicle
Communication in 5G Access
Beichen Yang (The University of Alabama, USA); Xiaoyan Hong and Pawan
Subedi (University of Alabama, USA)
3. Intermittent Multi-hop Video and UAV Control Command Transmission
for Sewer Inspection
Yuki Tsutsumi, Thanh V. Pham and Susumu Ishihara (Shizuoka University,
Japan)

PERSASN 2023: 1st Workshop on Pervasive Computing for Smart

Autonomous Systems and Networks (conducted as a part of
PerVehicle)

14:00-14:55 Session 5: Internet of Things

1. IoT in the Air: Thread-enabled Flying IoT Network for Indoor

Environments
Dheryta Jaisinghani, Tanzeel Rehman, Ryan Mulkey and Andrew Berns
(University of Northern Iowa, USA)
2. PADAAV: Enhancing Perception Systems using GAN-generated
Adversarial Augmented Domains for Autonomous System
Oshin Rawlley (Birla Institute of Technology and Science Pilani, India);
Shashank Gupta (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, Rajasthan,
India)

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 3. Fast and Lightweight UAV-based Road Image Enhancement Under
Multiple Low-Visibility Conditions
Chaitanya Kapoor (Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani, India);
Aadith Warrier and Mohit Singh (Birla Institute of Technology and Science
Pilani, India); Pratik Narang (BITS Pilani, India); Harish Puppala (BML Munjal
University, India); Rallapalli Srinivas and Ajit Pratap Singh (Birla Institute of
Technology and Science Pilani, India)
4. Autonomous Network Slicing and Resource Management for Diverse
QoS in IoT Networks
Sri Harsh Amur (University of Twente, Enschede Netherlands, The
Netherlands); Kamran Zia (University of Twente, The Netherlands);
Alessandro Chiumento (University of Twente, The Netherlands & Katholieke
Universiteit Leuven, Belgium); Paul Havinga (University of Twente, The
Netherlands)

14:55-15:00 - Session 6: Closing remarks

Room 4 - Cloud2Things and *LESS

Cloud2Things 2023: 3rd Workshop on From Cloud to Things:

harnessing pervasive data in the Computing Continuum

9:00 - 9:15 - Welcome from Workshop chairs

9:15 - 10:30 - Keynote

“Harnessing the Computing Continuum for Urgent Science” Prof. Manish Parashar
(University of Utah)

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee break

11:00 - 12:40 - Paper presentations

1. Orchestration of containerized applications in the Cloud continuum

Giuseppe Di Modica (University of Bologna, Italy); Antonino Galletta and
Lorenzo Carnevale (University of Messina, Italy); Ahmad Alkhansa (Italian
Institute for Nuclear Physic, Italy); Alessandro Costantini and Daniele Cesini
(Italian Institute for Nuclear Physics, Italy); Paolo Bellavista (University of
Bologna, Italy); Massimo Villari (University of Messina, Italy)
2. Holistic Life-Cycle Management of Cloud-To-Thing Compute Entities
Simon Volpert, Georg Eisenhart and Jörg Domaschka (Ulm University,
Germany)

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 3. Selective Data Offloading in Edge Computing for Two-Tier Classification
With Local Domain Partitions
Forough Shirin Abkenar (University of California Irvine, USA); Leonardo Badia
(Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy); Marco Levorato (University of
California, Irvine, USA)
4. Smart Computation Offloading for Mobile Clouds
Sergiu-Cristian Toader, Radu-Ioan Ciobanu and Ciprian Dobre (University
Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania)
5. A QoS-Aware 3D Point Cloud Streaming from Real Space for Interaction
in Metaverse
Hiroki Ishimaru (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Yugo
Nakamura (Kyushu University, Japan); Manato Fujimoto (Osaka Metropolitan
University, Japan); Hirohiko Suwa and Keiichi Yasumoto (Nara Institute of
Science and Technology, Japan)

12:40 - 12:50 - Best paper award ceremony

12:50 - 13:00 - Closing from Workshop chairs

*LESS 2023: 2nd workshop on Serverless computing for pervasive

cloud-edge-device systems and services

14.00-14.10 - Welcome and introduction

14.10-15.10 - Keynote

“The Elastic AI Ecosystem – Towards A Holistic Pervasive System for Adaptive

Artificial Intelligence”

Gregor Schiele (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)

15.10-15.30 - Meet-the-author Gabriele Russo Russo (Università Roma Tre,

Italy)

15.30-16.00 - Coffee break

16:00-17:15 - Paper presentations

1. Measuring the Edge: A Performance Evaluation of Edge Offloading

Heiko Bornholdt and Kevin Röbert (Universität Hamburg, Germany); Martin
Breitbach (University of Mannheim, Germany); Mathias Fischer and Janick
Edinger (Universität Hamburg, Germany)
2. OS3: The Art and the Practice of Searching for Open-Source Serverless
Functions

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 Sarvesh Bhatnagar and Zhengquan Li (University of Michigan- Dearborn,
USA); Zheng Song (University of Michigan at Dearborn, USA); Eli Tilevich
(Virginia Tech, USA)
3. Reducing the Cost of GPU Cold Starts in Serverless Deep Learning
Inference Serving
Justin San Juan and Bernard Wong (University of Waterloo, Canada)

17.15-17.55 Interactive session: Serverless at the Edge: Foe or Friend?

17.55-18.00 Closing remarks

Room 5 - BIRD

BIRD 2023: 2nd International Workshop on Behavior analysis and

Recognition for knowledge Discovery

14:00-14:30 - Opening and Keynote

“Collective learning in non-human animals”

Takao Sasaki (University of Georgia, USA)

14:30-15:30 - Oral Presentation Session

1. Event-triggered feedback system using YOLO for optogenetic

manipulation of neural activity
Hayato M Yamanouchi; Ryoya Tanaka; Azusa Kamikouchi (Nagoya
University, Japan)
2. Detecting repetitive human actions by neural networks trained on
composite data only
Yuuki Nishino; Takuya Maekawa; Takahiro Hara (Osaka University, Japan)
3. Estimating Networks of Interaction in Fish Schools with a Minimal Model
Hiroaki Kawashima (University of Hyogo, Japan)

15:30-16:00 - Coffee Break

16:00-16:50 - Award Ceremony of OpenPack Challenge 2022 and Special Talk

16:50-17:50 - Poster Session

1. Prediction of Bat Flight Path During Obstacle Avoidance by Imitation

Learning
Shoko Genda; Yu Teshima; Taku Kawamura; Daichi Ohara (Doshisha

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 University, Japan); Keisuke Fujii (Nagoya University, Japan); Shizuko Hiryu
(Doshisha University, Japan)
2. Work Recognition based on Product States, Processing Parts, and
Skeleton Data
Hirotomo Oshima; Takanori Yoshii; Masamitsu Fukuda (Toshiba Corporation,
Japan); Takuya Maekawa (Osaka University, Japan); Yasuo Namioka
(Toshiba Corporation, Japan)
3. Transformer-based Time Series Classification for the OpenPack
Challenge 2022
Tomoki Uchiyama (Tsukuba University)
4. Exploring Cross Modality Feature Fusion for Activity Recognition at
OpenPack Challenge 2022
Tetsuo Inoshita (NEC, Japan); Yuto Namba (Yamaguchi University, Japan);
Yuichi Nakatani; Kenta Ishihara; Sachio Iwasaki; Kosuke Moriwaki (NEC,
Japan); Xian-Hua Han (Yamaguchi University, Japan)
5. A Spatial-Temporal Graph Convolutional Networks-based Approach for
the OpenPack Challenge 2022
Shurong Chai; Jiaqing Liu; Rahul Kumar Jain; Yinhao Li (Ritsumeikan
University, Japan); Tateyama Tomoko (Fujita Health University, Japan); Yen-
Wei Chen (Ritsumeikan University, Japan)
6. OpenPack Challenge 2022 Report: Impact of Data Cleaning and Time
Alignment on Activity Recognition
Yusuke Matsubayashi (Osaka University, Japan)
7. Precise Human Activity Recognition for the OpenPack Challenge 2022
Shubham Maroti Wagh (Veridium UK Limited)

17:50-18:00 - Closing

Room 6 - EMOTIONAWARE

EMOTIONAWARE 2023: 7th International Workshop on Emotion

Awareness for Pervasive Computing beyond traditional approaches
14:00 - 14:10 - Welcome & Opening

14:10 - 15:10 - Session 1

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 1. Emotional Virtual Reality Stroop Task
Deniz Mevlevioglu (University College Cork, Ireland); Sabin Tabirca (National
University of Ireland at Cork, Ireland); David Murphy (UCC, Ireland)
2. Episodes of Change: Emotion Change in Semantic Trajectories of
Multimodal Sensor Data in Episodes
Thomas William Johnson and Eiman Kanjo (Nottingham Trent University,
United Kingdom (Great Britain))

15:10 - 15:30 - Coffee Break

15:30 - 16:30 - Session 2:

1. Analysis of Accelerometer Data for Personalised Mood Detection in Activities

of Daily Living
Yulith V Altamirano-Flores (Centro de Investigación Científica y de Educación
Superior de Ensenada (CICESE), Mexico); Alexandros Konios (Nottingham
Trent University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Irvin Hussein López-Nava
(Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología & Centro de Investigación
Científica y de Educación Superior de Ensenada, Mexico); Matias Garcia-
Constantino and Idongesit Ekerete (Ulster University, United Kingdom (Great
Britain)); Mustafa Asan Mustafa (University of Manchester, United Kingdom
(Great Britain))
2. Emotions Studied by Computer Scientists and Psychologists - A
Complementary Perspective
Maciej Behnke (Wrocław University of Science and Technology & Adam
Mickiewicz University, Poland); Stanislaw Saganowski (Wroclaw University of
Science and Technology, Poland); Lukasz Kaczmarek (Adam Mickiewicz
University, Poland); Przemysław Kazienko (Wroclaw University of Science
and Technology, Poland)

16:30 - 17:30 - Keynote Session

“Hooked on a Feeling: Challenges and Opportunities of Emotion Research in

Human-Computer Interaction”

Dr. Benjamin Tag (Immersive Analytics Lab, Monash University, Australia)

17:30 - 18:00 - Closing & Discussion.

FRIDAY, 17

Room 1 - CoMoRea

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COMOREA 2023: 19th Workshop on Context and Activity Modeling
and Recognition

09:45 - 10:00 - Session 1: Welcome and introduction

10:00 - 10:30 - Session 2: Human Activity Recognition

1. Evaluation of Regularization-based Algorithms in Human Activity

Recognition
Bonpagna Kann (University of Grenoble Alpes, France); Sandra Castellanos
(UGA, France); Philippe Lalanda (Grenoble University, France)

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee break

11:00 - 12:00 - Session 3: Keynote

“Computational Behavior Analysis - Pushing the Boundaries towards usable Digital Health”
Thomas Plötz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA

12:00 - 13:00- Session 4: Data Cleaning in Context-Aware Systems

1. Context-aware Outlier Detection for Sensor Data Stream Processing

Aboubakr Benabbas (University of Bamberg, Germany); Marco Grawunder
(University of Oldenburg, Germany); Daniela Nicklas (University of Bamberg
& Faculty Information Systems and Applied Computer Science, Germany)
2. RTClean: Context-aware Tabular Data Cleaning using Real-time OFDs
Daniel Del Gaudio and Tim Schubert (University of Stuttgart, Germany);
Mohamed Abdelaal (Software AG, Germany)

13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch break

14:00-15:30 - Session 5: Data management in Context-Aware Systems

1. Mobile Health System using Facial Image for Assessment of Work

Engagement, Recovery and Reattachment
Satoshi Yoshimura (Osaka University, Japan); Hirohiko Suwa (Nara Institute
of Science and Technology, Japan); Teruhiro Mizumoto (Osaka University,
Japan)
2. Validating Quality of Context in Pervasive Computing Systems: Surf Life
Saving Use Case
Kanaka Sai Jagarlamudi, Arkady Zaslavsky, Seng W Loke and Kevin Lee
(Deakin University, Australia)
3. CV-Priv: Towards a Context Model for Privacy Policy Creation for
Connected Vehicles
Yunxuan Li, Pascal Hirmer and Christoph Stach (University of Stuttgart,
Germany)

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15:30 - 15:45 - Session 6: Closing remarks

Room 2 - PerFail and PRIVACOM

PERFAIL 2023: 2nd International Workshop on Negative Results in

Pervasive Computing

8:30-8:35 - Welcome words by chairs

8:35-9:30 - Keynote

Sira Vegas, Technical University of Madrid, Spain: “Importance of Methodology in

Empirical Studies”

9:30-10:30 Session 1

1. On efficacy of Meta-Learning for Domain Generalization in Speech

Emotion Recognition
Raeshak King Gandhi, Vasileios Tsouvalas and Nirvana Meratnia (Eindhoven
University of Technology, The Netherlands)
2. How not to IETF: Lessons Learned From Failed Standardization
Attempts
Michael Welzl (University of Oslo, Norway); Jörg Ott (Technische Universität
München, Germany); Colin Perkins (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
(Great Britain)); Safiqul Islam (Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway); Dirk
Kutscher (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
(Guangzhou), China)

10:30-11:00 - Coffee break

11:00-11:55 - Panel

“Struggles and failures of finding your academic identity”

Panelists: Suman Banerjee (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Sandip Chakraborty

(Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur), Thomas Ploetz (Georgia Institute of
Technology)

11:55 - 12:55 - Session 2

1. TSN Experiments Using COTS Hardware and Open-Source Solutions:

Lessons Learned
Filip Rezabek and Marcin Bosk (Technical University of Munich, Germany);
Georg Carle and Jörg Ott (Technische Universität München, Germany)

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 2. A Deployment-First Methodology to Mechanism Design and Refinement
in Distributed Systems
Martijn De Vos, Georgy Ishmaev and Johan Pouwelse (Delft University of
Technology, The Netherlands); Stefanie Roos (TU Delft, The Netherlands)

12:55-13:00 - Best paper award and final words

PRIVACOM 2023: 1st Workshop on Privacy Preserving

Computation in Pervasive Computing

14:00 - 14:15 - Welcome and Introduction

14:15 - 15:30 - Session 1:

1. Applying Differential Privacy to Medical Questionnaires

Arno Appenzeller (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology & Fraunhofer IOSB,
Germany); Nick Terzer (Fraunhofer IOSB & Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,
Germany); Patrick Philipp and Jürgen Beyerer (Fraunhofer IOSB, Germany)
2. DCFL: Dynamic Clustered Federated Learning under Differential Privacy
Settings
Andrea Augello, Giulio Falzone and Giuseppe Lo Re (University of Palermo,
Italy)

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee break

16:00 - 17:00 - Session 2:

1. Differential Privacy with Weighted ϵ for Privacy-Preservation in Human

Activity Recognition
Ryusei Fujimoto, Yugo Nakamura and Yutaka Arakawa (Kyushu University,
Japan)
2. A Secure Bandwidth-Efficient Treatment for Dropout-Resistant Time-
Series Data Aggregation
Reyhaneh Rabbaninejad, Alexandros Bakas, Eugene Frimpong and Antonis
Michalas (Tampere University, Finland)

17:00 - 17:30 - Closing + Discussion

Room 3 - PDT and PeRConAI

PDT 2023: 1st Workshop on Pervasive Digital Twins

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08:30 - 9:30 - Opening and Keynote 1

“Digital Twins - Nearly 20 years on”

Michael Grieves

09:30 - 10:30 - Session 1

1. NFTs for Trusted Traceability and Management of Digital Twins for

Shipping Containers
Feruz Elmay and Mohammad Moussa Madine (Khalifa University, United
Arab Emirates); Khaled Salah and Raja Jayaraman (Khalifa University of
Science and Technology, United Arab Emirates)
2. How to Change a Light Bulb in Your Smart Home: A Digital-Twin Based
Approach
Peter Zdankin (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Marco Picone
(University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Matthias Schaffeld
(University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany); Marco Mamei (Università di
Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy); Torben Weis (Universität Duisburg-Essen,
Germany)

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:00 - Keynote 2

“Mirror X - Digital Twins at Nokia Bell Labs”

Klaus Doppler

12:00 - 13:00 - Session 2

1. Assessing the Maturity of Digital Twinning Solutions for Ports

Robert Klar (Linköping University & Swedish National Road and Transport
Research Institute (VTI), Sweden); Anna Fredriksson and Vangelis Angelakis
(Linköping University, Sweden)
2. Mobile Robot Control and Autonomy Through Collaborative Twin
Nazish Tahir and Ramviyas Parasuraman (University of Georgia, USA)

13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch

PERCONAI 2023: 2nd Workshop on Pervasive and Resource-

Constrained Artificial Intelligence

14:15 - 15:30 - Opening PerConAI and Keynote 3

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"Decentralized Intelligence: towards collaborative and sustainable learning"
Dr. Paolo Dini

15:30-16:00 Coffee Break

16:00 - 17:00 - Session 3

1. Towards Scalable Resilient Federated Learning: A Fully Decentralised

Approach
Divi De Lacour and Marc Lacoste (Orange Innovation, France); Mario Sûdholt
(IMT Atlantique, France); Jacques Traoré (Orange Innovation, France)
2. Computation Efficient ECG classification on resource constrained
devices
Andrea Arigliano (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy); Andrea
Malagoli (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia & VST SRL, Italy); Luca
Bedogni (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy)

17:00 - 18:00 - Session 4

1. PhiNet-GAN: Bringing real-time face swapping to embedded devices

Alberto Ancilotto (FBK, Italy); Francesco Paissan and Elisabetta Farella
(Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy)
2. Content-Aware Dynamic Resource Allocation Framework for Video
Analytic Applications at Edge
Boonyarith Saovapakhiran; Sorawit Khumnaewnak; Wibhada Naruephiphat;
Chalermpol Charnsripinyo (National Electronics and Computer Technology
Center, Thailand)

18:00 - 18:30 - Closing Remarks with keynote speakers and chairs

Room 4 - PERAWARECITY and WristSense

PERAWARECITY 2023: 8th International Workshop on Pervasive

Context-Aware Smart Cities and Intelligent Transportation Systems

09:15 - 09:30 - Session 1: Welcome and introduction

09:30 - 10:30 - Session 2: Keynote

Daniela Nicklas

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Research and the City: An Experience Report on Launching the Smart City Research Lab
Bamberg

10:30 - 11:00 - Coffee Break

11:00 - 12:30 - Session 3: Smart Travel and Transportation

1. Towards Cheaper Tourists' Emotion and Satisfaction Estimation with

PCA and Subgroup Analysis
Lucas Maris and Yuki Matsuda (Nara Institute of Science and Technology,
Japan); Ramin Sadre (Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium); Keiichi
Yasumoto (Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
2. Bus Ridership Prediction with Time Section, Weather, and Ridership
Trend Aware Multiple LSTM
Tatsuya Yamamura, Ismail Arai and Masatoshi Kakiuchi (Nara Institute of
Science and Technology, Japan); Arata Endo (Information Initiative Center,
Nara Institute of Science and Technology, Japan); Kazutoshi Fujikawa (Nara
Institute of Science and Technology, Japan)
3. Supporting winter road maintenance procedures with the use of
distributed measurements based on IoT
Mirosław Hajder (University of Information Technology and Management,
Poland); Piotr Hajder and Lucyna Hajder (AGH University of Science and
Technology, Poland); Mateusz Liput (University of Information Technology
and Management, Poland); Janusz Kolbusz (University of Information
Technology and Management in Rzeszow, Poland)

12:30 - 12:45 - Session 4: Discussion

WRISTSENSE 2023: 9th Workshop on sensing systems and

applications using wrist worn smart devices

14:00 - 14:05 - Welcome and Introduction

14:05 - 15:30 - Session 1 (Human Actiivty Monitoring):

1. 3D Hand Tracking with Induced Magnetic Field

Sizhen Bian (ETH Zürich, Switzerland); Bo Zhou (German Research Center
for Artificial Intelligence, Germany); Paul Lukowicz (DFKI and University of
Kaiserslautern, Germany); Mengxi Liu (German Research Center for Artificial
Intelligence, Germany); Kexuan Guo (DFKI, Germany)
2. PuffConv: A System for Online and On-device Puff Detection for
Smoking Cessation
Varsha Sharma and Shalini Mukhopadhyay (TCS Research, India); Sakyajit

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 Bhattacharya (TCS Innovation Labs, India); Swarnava Dey (TCS Research &
Tata Consultancy Service Limited, India); Avik Ghose (Tata Consultancy
Services, India)

3. C-HAR: Compressive Measurement-Based Human Activity Recognition

Billy Dawton (Kyushu University, Japan); Shigemi Ishida (Future University
Hakodate, Japan); Yutaka Arakawa (Kyushu University, Japan)

15:30 - 16:00 - Coffee break

16:00 - 18:00 - Session 2 (Cognitive State Monitoring):

Panel Discussion: Future of Wrist-Based wearable sensing for mental health

monitoring

1. Cognitive and Emotional Monitoring with Inexpensive Wrist-Worn

Consumer-Grade Wearables Yunan Wu (Northwestern University, USA);
Roxana Valdez (United States Bowdoin College, USA); Clifton Forlines
(Northeastern University, USA)
2. Wearables for In-Situ Monitoring of Cognitive States: Challenges and
Opportunities
Meeralakshmi Radhakrishnan (Agency for Science, Technology and
Research, Singapore); Thivya Kandappu, Manoj Gulati and Archan Misra
(Singapore Management University, Singapore)

17:45 - 18:00 - Best Paper Award and Closing

Room 5 - UMUM

UMUM 2023: 2nd Workshop on Ubiquitous and Multi-domain User

Modeling

9:00 - 10:00 Opening Talk

“Area2Vec: Modeling Area and Persona from Mobility Big-data”

Nobuo Kawaguchi (Nagoya University, Japan)

10:00 - 11:00 - Coffee break

11:00 - 13:00 - Session 1: Ubiquitous User Modeling

1. An Effective and Efficient Self-Attention Based Model for Next POI

Recommendation

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 Qingxin Xia, Takahiro Hara and Takuya Maekawa (Osaka University, Japan);
Mori Kurokawa and Kei Yonekawa (KDDI Research, Inc., Japan)
2. PresSim: An End-to-end Framework for Dynamic Ground Pressure Profile
Generation from Monocular Videos Using Physics-based 3D Simulation
Lala Shakti Swarup Ray (DFKI & TU Kaiserslautern, Germany); Bo Zhou
(German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Germany); Sungho Suh
(German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Germany); Paul
Lukowicz (DFKI and University of Kaiserslautern, Germany)
3. MSQA: An Unsupervised Domain-Adapted Question Answering Method
Based on Multiple Source Domains
Tao Peng, Xincheng Zhang, Junjie Huang, Junping Liu, Xinrong Hu and
Ruhan He (School of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Wuhan
Textile University, China)
4. CrowdFlowTransformer: Capturing Spatio-Temporal Dependence for
Forecasting Human Mobility (Tomoki Cyoya, Naoki Tamura, Shin Katayama,
Kenta Urano, Takuro Yonezawa, Nobuo Kawaguchi (Nagoya University,
Japan))

13:00 - 14:00 - Lunch break

14:00 - 15:30 - Keynote

”If only we had more data! Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition in

Challenging Scenarios”

Thomas Plötz (Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)

15.30 - 16.00 - Coffee break

16:00 - 17:30 - Session 2: Modeling for Human Activity Recognition

1. Channel State Information for Human Activity Recognition with Low

Sampling Rates
Jeroen Klein Brinke and Paul Havinga (University of Twente, The
Netherlands); Alessandro Chiumento (University of Twente, The Netherlands
& Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium)
2. On Training Strategies for LSTMs in Sensor-Based Human Activity
Recognition
Shuai Shao (Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Yu Guan
(University of Warwick, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Xin Guan and Paolo
Missier (Newcastle University, United Kingdom (Great Britain)); Thomas Plötz
(Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
3. Extraction of Important Temporal Order for eXplainable AI on Time-
series data
Yasutaka Nishimura, Naoto Takeda, Roberto Legaspi and Kazushi Ikeda

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 (KDDI Research Inc., Japan); Thomas Plötz and Sonia Chernova (Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA)

17:30 - 17:45 - Closing Remarks

Mori Kurokawa (KDDI Research Inc., Japan)

Room 6 - ARDUOUS

ARDUOUS 2023: 7th International Workshop on Annotation of useR

Data for UbiquitOUs Systems

8:30-8:40 - Session 1: Welcome by chairs

8:40-9:40 - Keynote 1

Gabriele Civitarese, University of Milan, “Data scarcity in sensor based human

activity recognition”.

9:40-10:30 - Paper session 1: Valid and trustworthy datasets

1. APS: An Auditable Positioning System Based on Angle-of-Arrival Proof

of Location and Graph of Trust
Jakob Schaerer (University of Bern, Switzerland); Antonio Di Maio (University
of Bern, Switzerland); Torsten Ingo Braun (University of Bern, Switzerland)
2. A Tutorial on Dataset Creation for Sensor-based Human Activity
Recognition
Nilah Ravi Nair (Technical University Dortmund, Germany); Christopher
Reining, Friedrich Niemann, Fernando Moya Rueda and Gernot Fink (TU
Dortmund University, Germany)

10:30-11:00 - Coffee break

11:00-12:20 - Paper session 2: Participant as annotator

1. Is Querying Users Acceptable for Human Activity Recognition Based on

Active Learning?
Riccardo Presotto and Gabriele Civitarese (University of Milan, Italy); Claudio
Bettini (Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
2. When the Ground Truth is not True: Modelling Human Biases in
Temporal Annotations
Taku Yamagata (Merchant Venturers Building & University of Bristol, United
Kingdom (Great Britain)); Emma L. Tonkin, Benjamin Arana Sanchez, Ian

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 Craddock, Miquel Perelló Nieto, Raul Santos-Rodriguez, Weisong Yang and
Peter Flach (University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))
3. Experiencing Annotation: Emotion, Motivation and Bias in Annotation
Tasks
Teodor Stoev (University of Greifswald, Germany); Kristina Yordanova
(University of Greifswald & University of Rostock, Germany); Emma L. Tonkin
(University of Bristol, United Kingdom (Great Britain))

12:20-13:00 - Poster session

13:00-14:00 - Lunch break

14:00-16:00 - Practical annotation session: Validity in annotation

Practical 1: "Fine-Grained Annotation for Multi-channel Time-Series HAR"

Practical 2: Data quality in annotation

16:00-16:50 - Keynote 2

“Speech and audio capabilities in our everyday lives - can it be trusted?”

Jennifer Williams, University of Southampton

16:50-17:30 - Closing

Teodor Stoev, University of Greifswald. Summary, discussion and closing.

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