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Smart Computing and Sensing Technologies for Animal Welfare: A Systematic Review
Animals play a profoundly important and intricate role in our lives today.
Dogs have been human companions for thousands of years, but they now work
closely with us to assist the disabled, and in combat and search and rescue
situations. Farm animals are a critical part of the global food supply chain,
and there is increasing consumer interest in organically fed and humanely
raised livestock, and how it impacts our health and environmental footprint.
Wild animals are threatened with extinction by human induced factors, and
shrinking and compromised habitat. This review sets the goal to systematically
survey the existing literature in smart computing and sensing technologies for
domestic, farm and wild animal welfare. We use the notion of \emph{animal
welfare} in broad terms, to review the technologies for assessing whether
animals are healthy, free of pain and suffering, and also positively stimulated
in their environment. Also the notion of \emph{smart computing and sensing} is
used in broad terms, to refer to computing and sensing systems that are not
isolated but interconnected with communication networks, and capable of remote
data collection, processing, exchange and analysis. We review smart
technologies for domestic animals, indoor and outdoor animal farming, as well
as animals in the wild and zoos. The findings of this review are expected to
motivate future research and contribute to data, information and communication
management as well as policy for animal welfare
Thirty Years of Machine Learning: The Road to Pareto-Optimal Wireless Networks
Future wireless networks have a substantial potential in terms of supporting
a broad range of complex compelling applications both in military and civilian
fields, where the users are able to enjoy high-rate, low-latency, low-cost and
reliable information services. Achieving this ambitious goal requires new radio
techniques for adaptive learning and intelligent decision making because of the
complex heterogeneous nature of the network structures and wireless services.
Machine learning (ML) algorithms have great success in supporting big data
analytics, efficient parameter estimation and interactive decision making.
Hence, in this article, we review the thirty-year history of ML by elaborating
on supervised learning, unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning and deep
learning. Furthermore, we investigate their employment in the compelling
applications of wireless networks, including heterogeneous networks (HetNets),
cognitive radios (CR), Internet of things (IoT), machine to machine networks
(M2M), and so on. This article aims for assisting the readers in clarifying the
motivation and methodology of the various ML algorithms, so as to invoke them
for hitherto unexplored services as well as scenarios of future wireless
networks.Comment: 46 pages, 22 fig
Cloud Chaser: Real Time Deep Learning Computer Vision on Low Computing Power Devices
Internet of Things(IoT) devices, mobile phones, and robotic systems are often
denied the power of deep learning algorithms due to their limited computing
power. However, to provide time-critical services such as emergency response,
home assistance, surveillance, etc, these devices often need real-time analysis
of their camera data. This paper strives to offer a viable approach to
integrate high-performance deep learning-based computer vision algorithms with
low-resource and low-power devices by leveraging the computing power of the
cloud. By offloading the computation work to the cloud, no dedicated hardware
is needed to enable deep neural networks on existing low computing power
devices. A Raspberry Pi based robot, Cloud Chaser, is built to demonstrate the
power of using cloud computing to perform real-time vision tasks. Furthermore,
to reduce latency and improve real-time performance, compression algorithms are
proposed and evaluated for streaming real-time video frames to the cloud.Comment: Accepted to The 11th International Conference on Machine Vision (ICMV
2018). Project site: https://zhengyiluo.github.io/projects/cloudchaser
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