Thomas Ploetz - RankMe

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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Editors' Introduction to the Issue, March 2026. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. Thomas Ploetz, Lena Mamykina, Laura E. Barnes, Sarah Clinch, Franca Delmastro, Uichin Lee, Alanson P. Sample, Stephan Sigg, Edison Thomaz, Kristof Van Laerhoven, Nadir Weibel, Chenren Xu, Fusang Zhang
2026	J	`jnl`	Fine-grained Motion Retrieval via Joint-Angle Motion Images and Token-Patch Late Interaction. CoRR Yao Zhang, Zhuchenyang Liu, Yanlan He, Thomas Ploetz, Yu Xiao
2025	J	`jnl`	Layout-Agnostic Human Activity Recognition in Smart Homes through Textual Descriptions Of Sensor Triggers (TDOST). Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. Megha Thukral, Sourish Gunesh Dhekane, Shruthi K. Hiremath, Harish Haresamudram, Thomas Ploetz
2025	A*	`conf`	Limitations in Employing Natural Language Supervision for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition - And Ways to Overcome Them. AAAI Harish Haresamudram, Apoorva Beedu, Mashfiqui Rabbi, Sankalita Saha, Irfan Essa, Thomas Ploetz
2025	J	`jnl`	Models Got Talent: Identifying High Performing Wearable Human Activity Recognition Models Without Training. CoRR Richard Goldman, Varun Komperla, Thomas Ploetz, Harish Haresamudram
2025	—	`conf`	Thou Shalt Not Prompt: Zero-Shot Human Activity Recognition in Smart Homes via Language Modeling of Sensor Data & Activities. UbiComp Companion Sourish Gunesh Dhekane, Thomas Ploetz
2025	J	`jnl`	Thou Shalt Not Prompt: Zero-Shot Human Activity Recognition in Smart Homes via Language Modeling of Sensor Data & Activities. CoRR Sourish Gunesh Dhekane, Thomas Ploetz
2025	J	`jnl`	Transfer Learning in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition: A Survey. ACM Comput. Surv. Sourish Gunesh Dhekane, Thomas Ploetz
2024	J	`jnl`	Game of LLMs: Discovering Structural Constructs in Activities using Large Language Models. CoRR Shruthi K. Hiremath, Thomas Ploetz
2024	J	`jnl`	Large Language Models Memorize Sensor Datasets! Implications on Human Activity Recognition Research. CoRR Harish Haresamudram, Hrudhai Rajasekhar, Nikhil Murlidhar Shanbhogue, Thomas Ploetz
2024	J	`jnl`	Layout Agnostic Human Activity Recognition in Smart Homes through Textual Descriptions Of Sensor Triggers (TDOST). CoRR Megha Thukral, Sourish Gunesh Dhekane, Shruthi K. Hiremath, Harish Haresamudram, Thomas Ploetz
2024	J	`jnl`	Limitations in Employing Natural Language Supervision for Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition - And Ways to Overcome Them. CoRR Harish Haresamudram, Apoorva Beedu, Mashfiqui Rabbi, Sankalita Saha, Irfan Essa, Thomas Ploetz
2024	J	`jnl`	Maintenance Required: Updating and Extending Bootstrapped Human Activity Recognition Systems for Smart Homes. CoRR Shruthi K. Hiremath, Thomas Ploetz
2024	J	`jnl`	Past, Present, and Future of Sensor-based Human Activity Recognition using Wearables: A Surveying Tutorial on a Still Challenging Task. CoRR Harish Haresamudram, Chi Ian Tang, Sungho Suh, Paul Lukowicz, Thomas Ploetz
2024	J	`jnl`	Transfer Learning in Human Activity Recognition: A Survey. CoRR Sourish Gunesh Dhekane, Thomas Ploetz
2023	Misc	`conf`	Challenges in Using Skin Conductance Responses for Assessments of Information Worker Productivity. ISWC Anam Ahmad, Thomas Ploetz
2023	J	`jnl`	ConvBoost: Boosting ConvNets for Sensor-based Activity Recognition. CoRR Shuai Shao, Yu Guan, Bing Zhai, Paolo Missier, Thomas Ploetz
2023	J	`jnl`	Cross-Domain HAR: Few Shot Transfer Learning for Human Activity Recognition. CoRR Megha Thukral, Harish Haresamudram, Thomas Ploetz
2023	A	`conf`	FingerSpeller: Camera-Free Text Entry Using Smart Rings for American Sign Language Fingerspelling Recognition. ASSETS David Martin, Zikang Leng, Tan Gemicioglu, Jon Womack, Jocelyn Heath, William C. Neubauer, HyeokHyen Kwon, Thomas Ploetz, Thad Starner
2023	Misc	`conf`	Generating Virtual On-body Accelerometer Data from Virtual Textual Descriptions for Human Activity Recognition. ISWC Zikang Leng, HyeokHyen Kwon, Thomas Ploetz
2023	Misc	`conf`	On the Utility of Virtual On-body Acceleration Data for Fine-grained Human Activity Recognition. ISWC Zikang Leng, Yash Jain, HyeokHyen Kwon, Thomas Ploetz
2023	—	`conf`	Solving the Sensor-based Activity Recognition Problem (SOAR): Self-supervised, Multi-modal Recognition of Activities from Wearable Sensors. UbiComp/ISWC Adjunct Harish Haresamudram, Chi Ian Tang, Sungho Suh, Paul Lukowicz, Thomas Ploetz
2023	J	`jnl`	Towards Learning Discrete Representations via Self-Supervision for Wearables-Based Human Activity Recognition. CoRR Harish Haresamudram, Irfan Essa, Thomas Ploetz
2022	Misc	`conf`	A Personalized Approach for Developing a Snacking Detection System using Earbuds in a Semi-Naturalistic Setting. ISWC Mehrab Bin Morshed, Harish Kashyap Haresamudram, Dheeraj Bandaru, Gregory D. Abowd, Thomas Ploetz
2022	Misc	`conf`	Clustering of Human Activities from Wearables by Adopting Nearest Neighbors. ISWC Abrar Ahmed, Harish Haresamudram, Thomas Ploetz
2022	J	`jnl`	Finding Islands of Predictability in Action Forecasting. CoRR Daniel Scarafoni, Irfan Essa, Thomas Ploetz
2022	J	`jnl`	Guest Editorial Special Issue on Computational Intelligence for IoT-based Human Activity Recognition. IEEE Trans. Emerg. Top. Comput. Intell. Xiaoli Li, Huanhuan Chen, Thomas Ploetz, Min Wu, Zhenghua Chen
2022	J	`jnl`	Investigating Enhancements to Contrastive Predictive Coding for Human Activity Recognition. CoRR Harish Haresamudram, Irfan Essa, Thomas Ploetz
2022	—	`conf`	On the Effectiveness of Virtual IMU Data for Eating Detection with Wrist Sensors. UbiComp/ISWC Adjunct Yash Jain, HyeokHyen Kwon, Thomas Ploetz
2022	Misc	`conf`	Reinforcement Learning Based Online Active Learning for Human Activity Recognition. ISWC Yulai Cui, Shruthi Kashinath Hiremath, Thomas Ploetz
2022	J	`jnl`	Simple Yet Surprisingly Effective Training Strategies for LSTMs in Sensor-Based Human Activity Recognition. CoRR Shuai Shao, Yu Guan, Xin Guan, Paolo Missier, Thomas Ploetz
2021	J	`jnl`	Can You See It?: Good, So We Can Sense It! GetMobile Mob. Comput. Commun. HyeokHyen Kwon, Catherine Tong, Harish Haresamudram, Yan Gao, Gregory D. Abowd, Nicholas D. Lane, Thomas Ploetz
2021	J	`jnl`	Explainable Activity Recognition for Smart Home Systems. CoRR Devleena Das, Yasutaka Nishimura, Rajan P. Vivek, Naoto Takeda, Sean T. Fish, Thomas Ploetz, Sonia Chernova
2021	Misc	`conf`	On the Role of Context Length for Feature Extraction and Sequence Modeling in Human Activity Recognition. ISWC Shruthi Kashinath Hiremath, Thomas Ploetz
2021	J	`jnl`	PLAN-B: Predicting Likely Alternative Next Best Sequences for Action Prediction. CoRR Dan Scarafoni, Irfan Essa, Thomas Ploetz
2021	J	`jnl`	Ubi-SleepNet: Advanced Multimodal Fusion Techniques for Three-stage Sleep Classification Using Ubiquitous Sensing. CoRR Bing Zhai, Yu Guan, Michael Catt, Thomas Ploetz
2020	J	`jnl`	Contrastive Predictive Coding for Human Activity Recognition. CoRR Harish Haresamudram, Irfan A. Essa, Thomas Ploetz
2020	J	`jnl`	IMUTube: Automatic extraction of virtual on-body accelerometry from video for human activity recognition. CoRR HyeokHyen Kwon, Catherine Tong, Harish Haresamudram, Yan Gao, Gregory D. Abowd, Nicholas D. Lane, Thomas Ploetz
2020	Misc	`ed.`	ISWC '20: 2020 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, Virtual Event, Mexico, September 12-17, 2020 ISWC Kristof Van Laerhoven, Monica Tentori, Nadir Weibel, Jennifer Healey, Thomas Ploetz
2020	J	`jnl`	Transfer Learning for Activity Recognition in Mobile Health. CoRR Yuchao Ma, Andrew T. Campbell, Diane J. Cook, John C. Lach, Shwetak N. Patel, Thomas Ploetz, Majid Sarrafzadeh, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Hassan Ghasemzadeh
2019	—	`conf`	Recognition Of Atypical Behavior In Autism Diagnosis From Video Using Pose Estimation Over Time. MLSP Kathan Vyas, Rui Ma, Behnaz Rezaei, Shuangjun Liu, Michael Neubauer, Thomas Ploetz, Ronald Oberleitner, Sarah Ostadabbas
2019	J	`jnl`	Towards Reliable, Automated General Movement Assessment for Perinatal Stroke Screening in Infants Using Wearable Accelerometers. CoRR Yan Gao, Yang Long, Yu Guan, Anna Basu, Jessica Baggaley, Thomas Ploetz
2019	J	`jnl`	Towards Reliable, Automated General Movement Assessment for Perinatal Stroke Screening in Infants Using Wearable Accelerometers. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. Yan Gao, Yang Long, Yu Guan, Anna Basu, Jessica Baggaley, Thomas Ploetz
2018	J	`jnl`	A Unified Model for User Identification on Multi-Touch Surfaces: A Survey and Meta-Analysis. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. Ahmed Kharrufa, Thomas Ploetz, Patrick Olivier
2018	J	`jnl`	Adaptive App Design by Detecting Handedness. CoRR Kriti Nelavelli, Thomas Ploetz
2018	J	`jnl`	Assessing the quality of home detection from mobile phone data for official statistics. CoRR Maarten Vanhoof, Fernando Reis, Thomas Ploetz, Zbigniew Smoreda
2018	J	`jnl`	Detecting home locations from CDR data: introducing spatial uncertainty to the state-of-the-art. CoRR Maarten Vanhoof, Fernando Reis, Zbigniew Smoreda, Thomas Ploetz
2018	A*	`conf`	FingerPing: Recognizing Fine-grained Hand Poses using Active Acoustic On-body Sensing. CHI Cheng Zhang, Qiuyue Xue, Anandghan Waghmare, Ruichen Meng, Sumeet Jain, Yizeng Han, Xinyu Li, Kenneth A. Cunefare, Thomas Ploetz, Thad Starner, Omer T. Inan, Gregory D. Abowd
2018	J	`jnl`	Geographical veracity of indicators derived from mobile phone data. CoRR Maarten Vanhoof, Thomas Ploetz, Zbigniew Smoreda
2018	J	`jnl`	ISWC 2017: Riding the Waves of Wearables. IEEE Pervasive Comput. Thomas Ploetz, Jennifer Healey
2018	J	`jnl`	On Attention Models for Human Activity Recognition. CoRR Vishvak S. Murahari, Thomas Ploetz
2018	J	`jnl`	Robust Cross-View Gait Identification with Evidence: A Discriminant Gait GAN (DiGGAN) Approach on 10000 People. CoRR Bingzhang Hu, Yan Gao, Yu Guan, Yang Long, Nicholas D. Lane, Thomas Ploetz
2018	Misc	`conf`	Seesaw: rapid one-handed synchronous gesture interface for smartwatches. UbiComp Jason Wu, Cooper Colglazier, Adhithya Ravishankar, Yuyan Duan, Yuanbo Wang, Thomas Ploetz, Thad Starner
2017	J	`jnl`	Designing Future Ubiquitous Homes with OUI Interiors: Possibilities and Challenges. IxD&A Sara Nabil, David S. Kirk, Thomas Ploetz, Peter C. Wright
2017	J	`jnl`	Ensembles of Deep LSTM Learners for Activity Recognition using Wearables. CoRR Yu Guan, Thomas Ploetz
2017	Misc	`conf`	FingOrbits: interaction with wearables using synchronized thumb movements. ISWC Cheng Zhang, Xiaoxuan Wang, Anandghan Waghmare, Sumeet Jain, Thomas Ploetz, Omer T. Inan, Thad E. Starner, Gregory D. Abowd
2017	J	`jnl`	FingerSound: Recognizing unistroke thumb gestures using a ring. Proc. ACM Interact. Mob. Wearable Ubiquitous Technol. Cheng Zhang, Anandghan Waghmare, Pranav Kundra, Yiming Pu, Scott M. Gilliland, Thomas Ploetz, Thad E. Starner, Omer T. Inan, Gregory D. Abowd
2017	Misc	`ed.`	Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, ISWC 2017, Maui, HI, USA, September 11-15, 2017 ISWC Seungyon Claire Lee, Leila Takayama, Khai N. Truong, Jennifer Healey, Thomas Ploetz
2017	A	`conf`	Prototyping Ubiquitous Imaging Surfaces. Conference on Designing Interactive Systems Kyle Montague, Daniel Jackson, Tobias Brühwiler, Tom Bartindale, Gerard Wilkinson, Patrick Olivier, Otmar Hilliges, Thomas Ploetz
2016	J	`jnl`	Automated video-based assessment of surgical skills for training and evaluation in medical schools. Int. J. Comput. Assist. Radiol. Surg. Aneeq Zia, Yachna Sharma, Vinay Bettadapura, Eric L. Sarin, Thomas Ploetz, Mark A. Clements, Irfan A. Essa
2016	J	`jnl`	Deep, Convolutional, and Recurrent Models for Human Activity Recognition using Wearables. CoRR Nils Y. Hammerla, Shane Halloran, Thomas Ploetz
2015	J	`jnl`	Archival Liveness: Designing with Collections Before and During Cataloguing and Digitization. Digit. Humanit. Q. Tom Schofield, David S. Kirk, Telmo Amaral, Marian Dörk, Mitchell Whitelaw, Guy Schofield, Thomas Ploetz
2015	—	`conf`	CueS: cueing for upper limb rehabilitation in stroke. BCS HCI Amey Holden, Roisin McNaney, Madeline Balaam, Robin J. Thompson, Nils Y. Hammerla, Thomas Ploetz, Daniel Jackson, Christopher Price, Lianne Brkic, Patrick Olivier
2015	A*	`conf`	PD Disease State Assessment in Naturalistic Environments Using Deep Learning. AAAI Nils Yannick Hammerla, James Fisher, Peter Andras, Lynn Rochester, Richard Walker, Thomas Ploetz
2014	—	`conf`	HomeSys 2014. UbiComp Adjunct Tim Coughlan, Rob Comber, Richard Mortier, Thomas Ploetz, Val Mitchell
2013	A*	`conf`	Augmenting Bag-of-Words: Data-Driven Discovery of Temporal and Structural Information for Activity Recognition. CVPR Vinay Bettadapura, Grant Schindler, Thomas Ploetz, Irfan A. Essa
2013	—	`conf`	Automatic correction of annotation boundaries in activity datasets by class separation maximization. UbiComp (Adjunct Publication) Reuben Kirkham, Aftab Khan, Sourav Bhattacharya, Nils Y. Hammerla, Sebastian Mellor, Daniel Roggen, Thomas Ploetz
2013	Misc	`conf`	Dog's life: wearable activity recognition for dogs. UbiComp Cassim Ladha, Nils Y. Hammerla, Emma Hughes, Patrick Olivier, Thomas Ploetz
2013	Misc	`conf`	FoodBoard: surface contact imaging for food recognition. UbiComp Cuong Pham, Daniel Jackson, Johannes Schöning, Tom Bartindale, Thomas Ploetz, Patrick Olivier
2013	—	`conf`	Methods for studying technology in the home. CHI Extended Abstracts Tim Coughlan, Michael A. Brown, Sarah Martindale, Rob Comber, Thomas Ploetz, Kerstin Leder Mackley, Val Mitchell, Sharon Baurley
2013	Misc	`conf`	On preserving statistical characteristics of accelerometry data using their empirical cumulative distribution. ISWC Nils Y. Hammerla, Reuben Kirkham, Peter Andras, Thomas Ploetz