Workshop on Wireless Motion Capture and Fine-Scale Localization

8 October 2020 — Interactive Sessions!

This workshop will host researchers and engineers interested in the emerging technologies and applications for wireless motion capture and fine-scale wireless localization. Workshop presentations will explore technical issues relevant to new wireless motion capture, fine-scale localization, gesture recognition, tomography, and related technologies.

Invited Workshop Speakers

Prof. Antonis Dimitriou
Aristotle U. of
Thessaloniki
3D RFID localization

with robots
Prof. Matt Reynolds
U. of Washington

ThruWave Inc
mm-wave imaging
James Stratigos
Cognosis LLC
low-power, wide-area

tag location
Prof. Edwin Kan
Cornell U.
passive, ultra-precise

localization
Prof. William Kihei
Kennesaw State U.
identifying vehicles
in V2X networks

Prof. Arjuna
Madanayake
Florida Int. U.
UAV Doppler ID
Dr. Jet Zhu
Polaris Wireless
commercial handset
localization
Prof. Reza Zekavat
WPI
localization in body
complex media
Andrea Motroni
U. of Pisa

robot localization
with RFID
Ryan Bahr
Georgia Tech
Luneberg lens for
point localization
Prof Alanson Sample
U of Michigan

RFID tomography pose
reconstruction/tracking

Check the IEEE RFID 2020 conference website (2020.ieee-rfid.org) for announcements, student travel grant opportunities, conference program, and more.  Participation and attendance in the Workshop on MoCap is included for IEEE RFID 2020 registrations.

Workshop Topics and Tracks

– Wireless Motion Capture Systems 
– Fine-scale Localization & Apps
– Tomography and Imaging
– Tracking Applications
– Hardware Demos Welcome
– Gesture Recognition
– RFID-based Positioning
– Micro-Doppler Sensing
– Robotic RFID and RF Sensing
– RF Imaging & Tomography

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Assistant Professor, University of Pisa. Andrea has served in many roles for the council as CRFID Publicity Chair as well on several conference organizing committees. Currently, he is one of the Special Session Chair Organizers for the upcoming IEEE RFID 2026 conference taking place June 16 – 18 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA. He was also instrumental in assisting with the council website. You can connect with him on LinkedIn. Outside of his commitment to helping the council, he enjoys rock climbing, hiking, guitar, and music. His favorite quote is “Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need roads.”

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