Seminar Purpose (Spring 2020)
The main purpose of this seminar is to function as a "curated reading group." Each week everyone will read either a single paper or a few papers loosely related by topic area, and we will discuss the papers and common themes together. This helps us be more aware of what other researchers are doing, and see examples of successful papers that get published in top venues. Papers in this reading group generally make use of, or enhance, embedded networked systems research.
To ensure quality we will restrict ourselves to the top conferences such as SenSys, IPSN, MobiSys, and ASPLOS. We will also look at interesting papers from related conferences such as SIGMETRICS, PLDI, UbiComp, SOSP/OSDI, Mobicom, SIGCOMM, OOPSLA, UIST, Oakland, etc.
Expectations
All seminar participants are required to read "How to Read a Paper" before the seminar starts.This invaluable text details a practical and efficient three-pass method for reading research papers, saving time and helping with comprehension.
It is expected that each person will have read each paper enough to grasp core concepts / contributions, identify weaknesses and strengths, be able to place the paper in the literature, and compare against other papers read. Come with questions and comments on the paper's insights, novelty, significance, assumptions, methodology, flaws, etc. You specifically want to look for the following:
- One positive insight into each work; for example a novel evaluation method that could be used in your own research.
- One negative insight into each work; for example pointing out a flaw in methodology.
- One general observation about overall topic area of the papers; this could be identifying major problems, talking about holes in the literature, or forecasting the future of the field.
To help you organize your thoughts on the paper, please use this review form (similar to what you would use if you were reviewing for a conference). If you're taking the seminar for credit, please submit your review form by 8 AM the day before we meet.
Readings
- Assigned for 15 January
- Topic: Welcome to Seminar - Spring 2020
- How to Read a Paper
- Assigned for 22 January
- Topic: Smartphone Sensing - Part I (SenSys 2019)
- VitaMon: Measuring Heart Rate Variability Using Smartphone Front Camera
- SenseHAR: A Robust Virtual Activity Sensor for Smartphones and Wearables
- Assigned for 29 January
- Topic: Smartphone Sensing - Part II (SenSys 2019)
- ALT: Towards Automating Driver License Testing using Smartphones
- HyperSight: Boosting Distant 3D Vision on a Single Dual-camera Smartphone
- Assigned for 5 February
- Topic: Power - Part I (SenSys 2019)
- Intermittent Asynchronous Peripheral Operations
- SkinnyPower: Enabling Battery-less Wearable Sensors via Intra-Body Power Transfer
- Assigned for 12 February
- Topic: Power - Part II (SenSys 2019)
- SHEPHERD: A Portable Testbed for the Batteryless IoT
- Frugal Following: Power Thrifty Object Detection and Tracking for Mobile Augmented Reality
- Assigned for 19 February
- Topic: Deep Learning (SenSys 2019)
- Neuro.ZERO: A Zero-Energy Neural Network Accelerator for Embedded Sensing and Inference Systems
- Moving Target Defense for Embedded Deep Visual Sensing against Adversarial Examples
- Assigned for 26 February
- Topic: Communication (SenSys 2019)
- LuxLink: Creating a Wireless Link from Ambient Light
- FTrack: Parallel Decoding for LoRa Transmissions
- Parallel Inclusive Communication for Connecting Heterogeneous IoT Devices at the Edge
- Assigned for 4 March
- Topic: Infrastructure Sensing (SenSys 2019)
- WISDOM: Watering Intelligently at Scale with Distributed Optimization and Modeling
- SmrtFridge: IoT-based, User Interaction-Driven Food Item and Quantity Sensing
- WideSee: Towards Wide-Area Contactless Wireless Sensing
- Assigned for 11 March
- Topic: Canceled - No Seminar
- No readings assigned this week. (no link)
- Assigned for 18 March
- Topic: Spring Break - No Seminar
- No readings this week. Have a safe and productive break! (no link)
- Assigned for 25 March
- Topic: No Seminar
- No readings this week. Stay safe! (no link)
- Assigned for 1 April
- Topic: Wearable Sensing - Part I (SenSys 2019)
- A Closer Look at Quality-Aware Runtime Assessment of Sensing Models in Multi-Device Environments
- HandSense: Capacitive coupling-based Dynamic, Micro Finger Gesture Recognition
- Assigned for 8 April
- Topic: Wearable Sensing - Part II (SenSys 2019)
- RFID Based Real-time Recognition of ongoing Gesture with Adversarial Learning
- U-Verse: A Miniaturized Platform for End-to-end Closed-Loop Implantable Internet of Medical Things Systems
- Assigned for 15 April
- Topic: RFID and mmWave (SenSys 2019)
- BEST PAPER Award.. FerroTag: A Paper-based mmWave-Scannable Tagging Infrastructure
- Tagtag: Material Sensing with Commodity RFID
- Assigned for 22 April
- Topic: Jacob Suggestions
- Orbital Edge Computing: Nanosatellite Constellations as a New Class of Computer System
- Assigned for 29 April
- Topic: Exam Week
- No readings this week. Good luck during exams! (no link)