A state of art review on methodologies of occupancy estimating in buildings from 2011 to 2021

L Zhao, Y Li, R Liang, P Wang - Electronics, 2022 - mdpi.com
Occupancy information is important to building facility managers in terms of building energy
efficiency, indoor environmental quality, comfort conditions, and safety management of …

On the gap between domestic robotic applications and computational intelligence

J Zhong, C Ling, A Cangelosi, A Lotfi, X Liu - Electronics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Aspired to build intelligent agents that can assist humans in daily life, researchers and
engineers, both from academia and industry, have kept advancing the state-of-the-art in …

Adaptive thermal sensor array placement for human segmentation and occupancy estimation

A Naser, A Lotfi, J Zhong - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Thermal sensor array (TSA) offers privacy-preserving, low-cost, and non-invasive features,
which makes it suitable for various indoor applications such as anomaly detection, health …

Privacy-preserving, thermal vision with human in the loop fall detection alert system

A Naser, A Lotfi, MD Mwanje… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
To support the independent living of older adults in their own homes, it is essential to identify
their abnormal behaviors before triggering an automated alert system. Existing normal vision …

Multiple thermal sensor array fusion toward enabling privacy-preserving human monitoring applications

A Naser, A Lotfi, J Zhong - IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Human-centric applications of a single thermal sensor array (TSA) have performed
extremely well in many areas. However, most of these works have not yet reached the real …

A novel privacy-preserving approach for physical distancing measurement using thermal sensor array

A Naser, A Lotfi, J Zhong - … of the 14th PErvasive Technologies Related …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Physical distancing measurements are accepted to be critical strategies to slow the spread
of COVID-19 disease. Most of the recent works to measure the physical distancing between …

Usage of IR sensors in the HVAC systems, vehicle and manufacturing industries: A review

MA Altaf, J Ahn, D Khan, MY Kim - IEEE Sensors Journal, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The use of thermal sensors is increasing in response to dealing with the problems of the
visible light spectrum. These sensors measure the temperature of the object and convert it to …

Towards human distance estimation using a thermal sensor array

A Naser, A Lotfi, J Zhong - Neural Computing and Applications, 2023 - Springer
Human distance estimation is essential in many vital applications, specifically, in human
localisation-based systems, such as independent living for older adults applications, and …

Collection and utilization of indoor environmental quality information using affordable image sensing technology

J Lee, DO Woo, J Jang, L Junghans, SB Leigh - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Incorporating Internet of Things (IoT) technology into the operation of buildings is expected
to generate immense synergy, thereby saving energy and improving occupant comfort by …

Human activity of daily living recognition in presence of an animal pet using thermal sensor array

A Naser, A Lotfi, J Zhong, J He - Proceedings of the 13th ACM …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The recognition of human activities of daily living has gained increasing attention in recent
years due to its potential to promote autonomy for elderly people in their own homes and its …