Jiang Lu
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Dr. Jiang Lu is an Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at University of Houston-Clear Lake. Dr. Lu's research interest draws in all aspects of intelligent sensor systems, including wireless communication, intelligent algorithms and the establishment of biomedical applications with intelligent sensor systems.
Recent Submissions
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Distributed Multiple Human Tracking with Wireless Binary Pyroelectric Infrared (PIR) Sensor Networks
(IEEE, 2010)This paper presents a distributed multiple human tracking system based on binary pyroelectric infrared (PIR) sensors. The goal of our research is to make wireless distributed pyroelectric sensors a low-cost, low-data ... -
Multi-agent Based Wireless Pyroelectric Infrared Sensor Network for Multi-human Tracking and Self-calibration
(IEEE, 2013)This paper presents a multi-agent-based wireless pyroelectric infrared sensor network for human tracking and self-calibration. The goal of this research is to achieve a scalable, reconfigurable multi-agent system (MAS) ... -
Measuring Activities and Counting Steps with Smartsocks - an Unobtrusive and Accurate Method
(IEEE, 2014)Physical inactivity is an important contributor to non-communicable diseases in countries of high income, and increasingly so in those of low and middle income. Physical inactivity is the leading cause of many diseases. ... -
Non-informative Hierarchical Bayesian Inference for Non-negative Matrix Factorization
(Journal of Signal Processing, 2015)Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is an intuitive, non-negative, and interpretable approximation method. Canonical NMF approach could derive some basic components to represent original data, while probabilistic NMF ... -
Space Encoding Based Compressive Multiple Human Tracking with Distributed Binary Pyroelectric Infrared Sensor Networks
(IEEE, 2012)This paper presents a distributed, compressive multiple human tracking system based on binary pyroelectric infrared (PIR) sensor networks. The goal of our research is to develop an energy-efficient, low-data-throughput ... -
Monitoring of Paces and Gaits Using Binary PIR Sensors with Rehabilitation Treadmill
(IEEE, 2016)Recently, rehabilitation treadmills are designed for helping injured persons such as stroke patients and injured athletes in the process of physical therapy. By monitoring the changes of paces and gaits are wearable and/or ... -
Robot-assisted Intelligent Emergency System for Individual Elderly Independent Living
(IEEE, 2016)With the ever-increasing aging population and others in need of close monitoring, there is a profound demand for an efficient and economical counter-emergency system. This paper proposes a smart connected real-time voice ... -
A Smart System for Face Detection with Spatial Correlation Improvememt in IoT Environment
(IEEE Smartworld, 2017)This paper presents an Internet of Things (IoT) based face detection system. The main objective is to build a fully automated human face detection system for images with complex backgrounds. Our system can capture images ... -
Preprocessing Design in Pyroelectric Infrared Sensor Based Human Tracking System: On Sensor Selection and Calibration
(IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, 2016)This paper presents an information-gain-based sensor selection approach as well as a sensor sensing probability model-based calibration process for multi human tracking in distributed binary pyroelectric infrared sensor ... -
Binary Compressive Tracking
(IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, 2017)This paper presents a compressive tracking framework using distributed binary sensors. The goal of this research is to achieve the minimum data throughput for an accurate multitarget tracking system through novel spatial ...