Publications

Doctoral Dissertations (6):

  1. Wencan Mao. Capacity planning for vehicular fog computing. 2023. Public defence on Nov 2, 2023.

  2. Emmi Pouta. Touch Interwoven – role of textile thinking in woven eTextile exploration. 2023. Public defence on June 19, 2023.

  3. Petr Byvshev, Motion and Appearance Representation Learning of Human Activities from Videos and Wearable Sensors. 2023. Public defence on April 19, 2023.

  4. Clayton Leite. Enabling Cost Efficiency in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition. 2022

  5. Chao Zhu. Task allocation and resource scheduling in vehicular fog computing. 2020.

  6. Marius Noreikis. Enabling Ubiquitous Augmented Reality with Crowdsourced Indoor Mapping and Localization. 2019.

Technical reports:

  1. C. Leite, P. Byvshev, H. Mauranen, and Y. Xiao, “Simulation-driven design of smart gloves for gesture recognition“, SSRN, Jan 2022

Peer-reviewed journal articles (41):

  1. Structure from Motion-Based Mapping for Autonomous Driving: Practice and Experience
    A. Zhanabatyrova, C. Leite, and Y. Xiao
    ACM Transactions on Internet of Things (accepted for publication), 2023

  2. On-demand Vehicular Fog Computing for Beyond 5G Networks
    W. Mao, O. Akgul, Byungjin, C., Y. Xiao and A. Ylä-Jääski
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (accepted for publication), 2023

  3. VFogSim: a data-driven platform for simulating vehicular fog computing environment
    O. Akgul, W. Mao, Byungjin, C., and Y. Xiao
    IEEE Systems Journal (accepted for publication), 2023

  4. Quantum bandit with amplitude amplification exploration in an adversarial environment
    B. Cho, Y. Xiao, P. Hui, and D. Dong
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (accepted for publication), 2023.

  5. A repeated unknown game: Decentralized task offloading in vehicular fog computing
    B. Cho and Y. Xiao
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology (accepted for publication), 2023

  6. Automatic Map Update using Dashcam Videos
    A. Zhanabatyrova, C. Leite, and Y. Xiao
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal (early access), 2023

  7. A human mobility dataset collected via LBSLab
    Y. Zhang, Q. Gong, Y. Chen, Y. Xiao, X. Wang, P. Hui, X. Fu.
    Data in Brief, 2023

  8. ARiana: Augmented Reality based In-Situ Annotation of Assembly Videos
    T-A. Pham; T. Moesgen; S. Siltanen; J. Bergström; Y. Xiao
    IEEE Access, 2022

  9. Artemis: A Latency-Oriented Naming and Routing System
    X. Li; Y. Chen; M. Zhou; T. Guo; C. Wang; Y. Xiao; J. Wang; X. Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2022

  10. Are 3D Convolutional Networks Inherently Biased towards Appearance?
    P. Byvshev; P. Mettes and Y. Xiao
    Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2022

  11. Resource-Efficient Continual Learning for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition
    C. F. S. Leite and Y. Xiao
    ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems, 2022

  12. A UAV-assisted Multi-task Allocation Method for Mobile Crowd Sensing
    H. Gao, J. Feng, Y. Xiao, B. Zhang and W. Wang
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2022

  13. Data-Driven Capacity Planning for Vehicular Fog Computing
    W. Mao, O.U. Akgul, A. Mehrabidavoodabadi, B. Cho, Y. Xiao and A. Ylä-Jääski
    IEEE Internet of Things, 14 pages, Jan 2022

  14. Learning-based decentralized offloading decision making in an adversarial environment
    Cho, B. and Xiao, Y.
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, November 2021

  15. Ajalon: Simplifying the Authoring of Wearable Cognitive Assistants
    Pham, T., Wang, W., Xiao, Y., Pillai, P., Iyengar, R., Klatzky, R., Satyanarayanan, M.
    Journal of Software: Practice and Experience, 25 pages, May 2021

  16. Cross-site prediction on social influence for cold-start users in emerging online social networks
    Gong, Q., Chen, Y., He, X., Xiao, Y., Hui, P., Wang, X., and Fu, X.
    ACM Transactions on the Web. 23 pages. May 2021. 

  17. FlexSensing: A QoI and latency aware task allocation scheme for vehicle-based visual crowdsourcing via deep Q-network
    Zhu, C., Chiang, Y., Xiao, Y., Ji, Y.
    IEEE Internet of Things, 2020

  18. 5G Beyond 3GPP Release 15 for Connected Automated Mobility in Cross-Border Contexts
    Velez, G., Martín, Á., Pastor, G., Mutafungwa, E.
    Sensors, 2020

  19. Constructing Measures of Sparsity
    Pastor, G., Mora-Jimenez, I., Jantti, R., Caamano, A.
    IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, doi: 10.1109/TKDE.2020.3029851

  20. Improving Cross-Subject Activity Recognition via Adversarial Learning
    Leite, Clayton ;Xiao, Yu
    IEEE Access, 13 pages. DOI: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.2993818

  21. Understanding the User Behavior of Foursquare: A Data-driven Study based on the Entire Network
    Chen, Y., Hu, J., Xiao, Y., Li, X., and Hui, P.
    IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems. 14 pages. 2020. 

  22. Understanding the Working Time of Developers in IT Companies in China and the United States
    Zhang, J., Chen, Y., Gong, Q., Ding, A., Xiao, Y., Wang, X., and Hui, P.
    IEEE Software. 2020. 

  23. A Learning-based Credible Participant Recruitment Strategy for Mobile Crowd Sensing
    Gao, H., Xiao, Y., Han, Y., Tian, Y., Wang, W.
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal. 2020

  24. Does Augmented Reality Affect Sociability, Entertainment, and Learning? A Field Experiment.
    Savela, N., Oksanen, A., Kaakinen, M., Noreikis, M., Xiao, Y.
    Journal of Applied Sciences, 10 (4), Feb 2020.

  25. Effects of gamified augmented reality in public spaces
    Noreikis, M., Savela, N., Kaakinen, M., Xiao, Y., Oksanen A.
    IEEE Access (early access), 12 pages, October 2019

  26. Chameleon: Latency and Resolution Aware Task Offloading for Visual-based Assisted Driving
    Zhu, C    ., Chiang, Y., Mehrabi, A., Xiao, Y., Ylä-Jääski, A., Ji, Y.
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 11 pages, July 2019

  27. Applying Embodied Design Improvisation for Physical Interaction in Augmented and Virtual Reality
    Lee, J., Diaz-Kommonen, L., Xiao, Y.
    Archives of Design Research, vol 32, no. 2, 2019

  28. Folo: Latency and Quality Optimized Task Allocation in Vehicular Fog Computing
    C. Zhu, J. Tao, G. Pastor, Y. Xiao, Y. Ji, Q. Zhou, Y. Li, and A. Ylä-jääski
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 6, issue 3, pp. 4150-4161, June 2019

  29. Neurophysiological correlates of collective perceptual decision-making
    Baumgart, K. G., Byvshev, P., Sliby, A. N., Strube, A., König, P., & Wahn, B.
    European Journal of Neuroscience. 2019.

  30. Vehicular fog computing for video crowdsourcing: Applications, feasibility and challenges
    C. Zhu, G. Pastor, Y. Xiao, and A. Ylä-Jääski
    IEEE Communications Magazine, pp. 58-63, vol.56, no.10, 2018

  31. We know your preferences in new cities: Mining and modeling the behavior of travelers
    R. Xie, Y. Chen, Q. Xie, Y. Xiao, and X. Wang
    IEEE Communications Magazine, vol. 56, no. 11, pp. 28-35, November 2018

  32. Exploring the power of social hub services
    Q. Gong, Y. Chen, X. Yu, C. Xu, Z. Guo, Y. Xiao, F.B. Abdesslem, X. Wang, and P. Hui
    World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems (WWW), 2018 |   pdf

  33. ViNav: A vision-based indoor navigation system for smartphones
    J. Dong, M. Noreikis, Y. Xiao, and A. Ylä-Jääski
    IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, vol., no., 2018  |   pdf

  34. A low-rank tensor model for imputation of missing vehicular traffic volume
    G. Pastor
    IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, vol. 67, no. 9, 2018  |  pdf

  35. A survey on security, privacy and trust in mobile crowdsourcing
    W. Feng, Z. Yan, H. Zhang, K. Zeng, Y. Xiao, and Y.T. Hou
    IEEE Internet of Things Journal, vol. 5, no. 4, August 2018 |   pdf

  36. Understanding skout users’ mobility patterns on a global scale: A data-driven study     
    R. Xie, Y. Chen, S. Lin, T. Zhang, Y. Xiao, and X. Wang,
    World Wide Web: Internet and Web Information Systems, 2018  |   pdf

  37. CTS: A cellular-based trajectory tracking system with GPS-level accuracy
    X. Huang, Y. Li, Y. Wang, Y. Xiao, and L. Zhang
    ACM Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), vol. 1, no. 4, 2018  |   pdf

  38. Measurement and analysis of the swarm social network with tens of millions of nodes
    Y. Chen, J. Hu, H. Zhang, Y. Xiao, and P. Hui
    IEEE Access, vol. PP, no. 99, 2018  |   pdf

  39. Diamond: Nesting the data center network with wireless rings in 3-D space
    Y. Cui, S. Xiao, X. Wang, Z. Yang, S. Yan, C. Zhu, X. Li, and N. Ge.
    IEEE/ACM Transactions on Networking, vol. PP, no. 99, 2016  |   pdf

  40. Modeling, profiling, and debugging the energy consumption of mobile devices
    M.A. Hoque, M. Siekkinen, K.N. Khan, Y. Xiao, and S. Tarkoma
    ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR), vol. 48, no. 3, 2016  |   pdf

  41. Asymptotic expansions for heavy-tailed data
    G. Pastor, I. Mora-Jimenez, A.J. Caamano, and R. Jäntti
    IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 23, no. 4, 2016  |   pdf

Peer-reviewed conference proceedings (34):

  1. Beyond Hot and Cold – Exploring the Design Space of Full-Body Thermal Experiences
    T. Moesgen, R. Gowrishankar, and Y. Xiao
    to appear in the Proceedings of ACM International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI) 2024

  2. Detecting and Classifying Changes in Traffic Rules using Induction Loop Data
    A. Zhanabatyrova, C. Leite, and Y. Xiao
    to appear in the Proceedings of 2023 IEEE Conference on Big Data

  3. Woven Variables – Investigating the Influence of Conductive Float Arrangements on the Performance of Woven Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors
    J. Ma, R. Gowrishankar, E. Pouta, and Y. Xiao.
    Proceedings of the 3rd edition of Textile Intersections Conference. 2023.

  4. Benchmarking Edge Devices Using Serverless Computing
    K. Rajput, C. Kulkarni, B. Cho, W. Wang, and I. Kim.
    IEEE EDGE 2022. July 2022.

  5. Designing vibrotactile motion guidance for stroke rehabilitation
    T. Moesgen, A. Salovaara, E. Pouta, R. Pyykkö, Y. Xiao
    ICMHI 2022. May 2022.

  6. Energy-Efficient Multi-Task Allocation for Antenna Array Empowered Vehicular Fog Computing
    X. Xie, R. Zhang, C. Zhu, R. Li, X. Bu, Y. Xiao
    IEEE VTC2022-Spring, 6 pages

  7. Balancing latency and accuracy on deep video analytics at the edge
    X. Li, B. Cho and Y. Xiao
    IEEE CCNC 2022. 8 pages.

  8. Optimal sensor channel selection for resource-efficient deep activity recognition.
    Leite, C., Xiao, Y.
    ACM IPSN 2021. 13 pages. May 2021.

  9. Arpilleras Parlantes: Designing Educational Material for the Creation of Interactive Textile Art based on a Traditional Chilean Craft
    Guridi, S., Vicencio T., Gajardo R.
    ACM TEI 2021. 11 pages.

  10. Dataset: A video set of wooden box assembly
    Zhang, J., Byvshev, P., Xiao, Y.
    3rd Workshop on Data Acquisition to Analysis (DATA’20)
    http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4040605

  11. VIMES: A wearable memory assistance system for automatic information retrieval
    Fernandez, C., Braud, T., Yang, J., Mirjafari, S., Shi, B., Xiao, Y., Hui, P.
    28th ACM International Conference on Multimedia (MM’20), 10 pages

  12. Heterogeneous Non-local Fusion for Multimodal Activity Recognition
    Byvshev, Petr    ; Mettes, Pascal; Xiao, Yu
    Annual ACM International Conference on Multimedia Retrieval (ICMR 2020). Video Presentation

  13. Image-based Renovation Progress Inspection with Deep Siamese Networks.
    Byvshev, P., Pham, T., Xiao, Y.
    12th International Conference on Machine Learning and Computing (ICMLC 2020). June, 2020. Shenzhen, China. 10 pages.
  14. Deep graph convolutional networks for incident-driven traffic speed prediction
    Xie, Q., Guo, T., Chen, Y., Xiao, Y., Wang, X., and Zhao, B.
    29th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’20)

  15. Improving Resource Efficiency of Deep Activity Recognition via Redundancy Reduction     
    Leite, C., Xiao, Y.
    21st International workshop on mobile computing systems and applications (HotMobile 2020). March 3-4, 2020. Austin Texas, US. 6 pages.    (Presentation on YouTube)


  16. DeepLoc: Deep Neural Network-based Telco Localization     (Best Paper Award)
    Zhang, Y.,  Xiao, Y., Zhao, K., and Rao, W.
    16th EAI International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Systems: Computing, Networking and Services (Mobiquitous 2019), pp. 258-267, November 12–14, 2019, Houston, United States. ACM, New York, NY, USA.

  17. Detecting Malicious Accounts in Online Developer Communities Using Deep Learning
    Gong, Q., Zhang, J., Chen, Y., Li, Q., Xiao, Y., Wang, X. and Hui, P.
    28th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM’19), 10 pages, Nov. 2019.

  18. CrowParking: Crowdsourcing based parking navigation in autonomous driving era
    Zhu, C., Mehrabi, A.,  Xiao, Y., Wen, Y.
    International Conference on Electromagnetics in Advanced Applications (ICEAA 2019), 5 pages, September 2019

  19. Artemis: A Practical Low-Latency Naming and Routing System
    Li, X., Liu, B., Chen, Y.,  Xiao, Y., Tang, J., Wang, X.
    48th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP’19), 10 pages, August 2019

  20. Edge Capacity Planning for Real Time Compute-Intensive Applications
    M. Noreikis, Y. Xiao, Y. Jiang
    IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC), 10 pages, June 2019

  21. Traffic Congestion Prediction by Spatiotemporal Propagation Patterns
    Di, X., Xiao, Y., Zhu, C., Deng, Y., Zhao, Q., Rao, W.
    20th IEEE International Conference on Mobile Data Management (MDM’19), 6 pages, June 2019.

  22. Reasonable Weirdness: Integrating Machine Perspective in Visual Creativity
    Min, S., Lee, J.
    International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), pp. 233-239, 2019

  23. Low-cost mapping of RFID tags using reader-equipped smartphones
    Y. Sato, M. Noreikis, and Y. Xiao
    IEEE International Conference on Mobile Ad-hoc and Sensor Systems (MASS), pp. 299-307, 2018

  24. An empirical study of the usage of the swarm app’s cross-site sharing feature
    S. Lin, R. Xie, Y. Chen, Y. Xiao, and P. Hui
    Workshop on Mining and Learning from Smartphones Apps for Users (AppLens, In conjunction with ACM UbiComp), pp. 823-832, 2018

  25. Identification of influential users in emerging online social networks using cross-site linking
    Q. Gong, Y. Chen, X. He, F. Li, Y. Xiao, P. Hui, X. Wang, and X. Fu
    Chinese Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (ChineseCSCW), 2018

  26. SnapTask: towards efficient visual crowdsourcing for indoor mapping
    M. Noreikis, Y. Xiao    , J. Hu, and  Y. Chen,
    IEEE Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS), 2018

  27. Fog following me: Latency and quality balanced task allocation in vehicular fog computing
    C. Zhu, G. Pastor, Y. Xiao, L. Yong, and A. Ylä-Jääski
    Annual IEEE International Conference on Sensing, Communication, and Networking (SECON), 2018  |   
    pdf

  28. A 5G-V2X Based Collaborative Motion Planning for Autonomous Industrial Vehicles at Road Intersections
    Y. Shi, Y. Pan, Z. Zhang, Y. Li and Y. Xiao
    2018 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC)

  29. Measurement and analysis of the reviews in Airbnb
    Q. Zhou, Y. Chen, C. Ma, F. Li, Y. Xiao, X. Wang, and X. Fu
    IFIP Networking Conference (Networking), 2018

  30. Unsupervised workflow extraction from first-person video of mechanical assembly
    T. Pham    , and Y. Xiao
    ACM International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), 2018  |   
    pdf

  31. SeeNav: Seamless and energy-efficient indoor navigation using augmented reality
    M. Noreikis, Y. Xiao, and A. Ylä-Jääski
    ACM Multimedia – Thematic Workshops, 2017  |   
    pdf

  32. QoS-oriented capacity planning for edge computing
    M. Noreikis    , Y. Xiao, and A. Ylä-Jääski
    IEEE International Conference on Communications (ICC), 2017  |   
    pdf

  33. Vehicular fog computing: Vision and challenges
    Y. Xiao    , and C. Zhu
    IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops (PerCom Workshops), 2017  |   
    pdf

  34. Indoor tracking using crowdsourced maps
    J. Dong, Y. Xiao, Z. Ou, Y. Cui, and A. Ylä-Jääski
    ACM/IEEE International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), 2016  |   
    pdf

Invited papers:

  1. Understanding the behavioural differences between American and German users: A data-driven study
    C. Yang, Y. Chen, Q. Gong, X. He, Y. Xiao, Y. Huang, and X. Fu
    Big Data Mining and Analytics, vol. 1, no. 4, 2018  |   
    pdf

Extended abstracts:

  1. Deep Neural Network-based Telco Outdoor Localization
    Y. Zhang, W. Rao, Y. Xiao.
    The 16th ACM Conference on Embedded Networked Sensor Systems (SenSys), 2018

  2. Crowdsourced geocaching for indoor maps reconstruction
     M. Noreikis, Y. Xiao
    The 19th International Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), 2018