Crane charades

Abstract

The Whooping Crane is an endangered species native to North America and there are approximately 575 in existence. There have been recent efforts to provide ecologists with a tool to study the multifaceted behavior of the endangered species. Like many species, cranes display distinctly identifiable movements while being threatened, acting territorial, migrating, or preening. The preliminary experiments described in this poster provide evidence that sensor data presented by a novel sensing platform, the CraneTracker, can be used to identify crane behaviors on-board. With the ability to identify these behaviors, ecologists will have a more granular insight on what occurs during a crane's life on a daily basis.

Semi-supervised near-miss fall detection for ironworkers with a wearable inertial measurement unit

“…Alternatively, one promising technology is WIMUs, which can document subtle body movements (i.e., acceleration, angular velocity) with a 3-axis accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer. In previous studies, WIMUs were widely used in fall detection [22][23][24][25][26], activity recognition [27][28][29][30][31][32][33], and gait analysis [34][35][36]. Due to its small size, a WIMU can be easily attached to the body of a subject and can transmit kinematic data through wireless communication.…”