Supporting Home Quarantine with Smart Speakers

Abrar S. Alrumayh, Chiu C. Tan

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Abstract

The outbreak of COVID-19 has been lead many countries to ask their citizens to home quarantine. Smart speakers, like the Google Home or Amazon Alexa, that continuously listen for voice commands, can potentially be used to help in monitoring adherence to quarantine rules. This paper proposes a monitoring solution to count the number of occupants in a home. Our technique is sufficiently lightweight to avoid using backend cloud computing facility so as to protect privacy, and is robust against common background noises such as television. To evaluate the performance of our technique, we perform experiments on real-world traces recorded from five different families. Our results show that the proposed algorithm is able to count the family member reliably across different home environments.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHealthDL 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Deep Learning for Wellbeing Applications Leveraging Mobile Devices and Edge Computing
Pages3-8
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450380126
DOIs
StatePublished - 19 Jun 2020
Event2020 Deep Learning for Wellbeing Applications Leveraging Mobile Devices and Edge Computing, HealthDL 2020 - Toronto, Canada
Duration: 19 Jun 2020 → …

Publication series

NameHealthDL 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Deep Learning for Wellbeing Applications Leveraging Mobile Devices and Edge Computing

Conference

Conference2020 Deep Learning for Wellbeing Applications Leveraging Mobile Devices and Edge Computing, HealthDL 2020
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityToronto
Period19/06/20 → …

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • Home Quarantine
  • Smart Speakers

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