Abstract

Radio sensing has seen significant advances over the recent decade. I will provide an overview of recent advances, open challenges and new research opportunities. Particularly, as the technology is increasingly integrated with communication platforms, a ubiquitous, connected sensing system is possible. But will such a system indeed be anticipated, given its privacy, ethical and still also technical challenges? On the other hand, new advances towards Quantum RF sensing have been proposed as well as the integration into medical devices and the perception of sentiment, while holographic sensing techniques promise unprecedented imaging capabilities.

About the speaker

Stephan Sigg is a Professor at Aalto University in the Department of Information and Communications Engineering. With a background in the design, analysis and optimisation of algorithms for distributed and ubiquitous systems, he focuses on sensing systems for environmental perception and Usable (perception-based) Security. Especially, his work covers proactive computing, distributed adaptive beamforming, context-based secure key generation and device-free passive activity recognition. Stephan is an editor for the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT). He has served on the organizing and technical committees numerous prestigious conferences including IEEE PerCom, ACM Ubicomp, IEEE ICDCS.