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How Much Does It Cost to Answer My Question? Benchmarking Cloud VLM-based VQA Systems
Henri Vanhuynegem, Weitao Xu, Yiran Shen +1
Vision-language models (VLMs) are becoming a practical backend for mobile visual question answering (VQA) systems, enabling smartphones and smart glasses to answer users' questions…
Towards Battery-Free Wireless Sensing via Radio-Frequency Energy Harvesting
Tao Ni, Zehua Sun, Mingda Han +5
Diverse Wi-Fi-based wireless applications have been proposed, ranging from daily activity recognition to vital sign monitoring. Despite their remarkable sensing accuracy, the high…
Leveraging Foundation Models for Zero-Shot IoT Sensing
Dinghao Xue, Xiaoran Fan, Tao Chen +2
Deep learning models are increasingly deployed on edge Internet of Things (IoT) devices. However, these models typically operate under supervised conditions and fail to recognize u…
FreeGaze: Resource-efficient Gaze Estimation via Frequency Domain Contrastive Learning
Lingyu Du, Guohao Lan
Gaze estimation is of great importance to many scientific fields and daily applications, ranging from fundamental research in cognitive psychology to attention-aware mobile systems…
Simultaneous Energy Harvesting and Gait Recognition using Piezoelectric Energy Harvester
Dong Ma, Guohao Lan, Weitao Xu +2
Piezoelectric energy harvester, which generates electricity from stress or vibrations, is gaining increasing attention as a viable solution to extend battery life in wearables. Rec…
SolarGest: Ubiquitous and Battery-free Gesture Recognition using Solar Cells
Dong Ma, Guohao Lan, Mahbub Hassan +4
We design a system, SolarGest, which can recognize hand gestures near a solar-powered device by analyzing the patterns of the photocurrent. SolarGest is based on the observation th…
EnTrans:Leveraging Kinetic Energy Harvesting Signal for Transportation Mode Detection
Guohao Lan, Weitao Xu, Dong Ma +3
Monitoring the daily transportation modes of an individual provides useful information in many application domains, such as urban design, real-time journey recommendation, as well…
Capacitor Based Activity Sensing for Kinetic Powered Wearable IoTs
Guohao Lan, Dong Ma, Weitao Xu +2
We propose a novel use of the conventional energy storage component, i.e., capacitor, in kinetic-powered wearable IoTs as a sensor to detect human activities. Since different activ…