Colloquia, Seminars and Conference News
Title : Sensory Grammars for Understanding Behaviors
Date : March 24, 2006. (2:00 pm) Tea starts half an hour before each seminar
Location: ITEB 336
Speaker : Andreas Savvides
Abstract:
Understanding behaviors in physical space using small battery operated sensing devices is rapidly becoming a very fundamental attribute of numerous safety and security applications of sensor networks. To be successful in these applications sensor networks should be able to understand a model of the world around them and be able to parse out observable behaviors into a set of recognizable actions, behaviors and intends. To address this problem, our work focuses on the design and specification of a sensory grammar framework. With this framework we aim to provide an efficient means of specifying sensor languages that will allow users to rapidly describe activities of interest. This will result a new generation of sensor networks that will take the form of rule-based systems. Users will be able to describe the desired behavior of a sensor network using a set of rules. By being able to interpret behaviors, the sensor network will be able to enforce the rules and provide services to its users.
In this talk will describe the general sensory grammar framework currently under development at ENALAB including the supporting hardware and middleware infrastructure. A new privacy preserving sensing modality for sensing motion is space will also be presented.
Bio:
Andreas Savvides completed his Ph.D. in the Electrical Engineering Department at UCLA in Fall 2003. Before this he earned his B.S in Computer Engineering from the University of California, San Diego and an M.S in Electrical and Computer Engineering from UMASS, Amherst. During his graduate studies he has been a member of the Networked Embedded Systems Lab (NESL) and the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing (CENS) at UCLA. Prior to joining UCLA, he worked for 6 months as a researcher in ad-hoc networks at the HRL Labs in Malibu, California. Since Fall 2003, Andreas is with the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Departments at Yale University. At Yale Andreas founded the Embedded Networks and Applications Lab (ENALAB) that focuses on smart environments and indoor sensor network applications. Andreas’ research is supported by an NSF CAREER award and industry funding.
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