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Tefnut: An accurate smartphone based rain detection system in vehicles

  • Hansong Guo
  • , He Huang
  • , Jianxin Wang
  • , Shaojie Tang
  • , Zhenhua Zhao
  • , Zehao Sun
  • , Yu E. Sun
  • , Liusheng Huang
  • , Hengchang Liu
  • University of Science and Technology of China
  • Soochow University

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Abstract

Real-time and fine-grained rain information is crucial not only for climate research, weather prediction, water resources management, agricultural production, urban planning and natural disasters monitoring, but also for applications in our daily lives. However, because of the lack of rain detection systems and the high variable attribute of rain, both in time and space, the rain detection today is still not precise enough. In such context, we propose and implement Tefnut (Tefnut is the rain deity in Ancient Egyptian religion.), a novel system that exploits opportunistically crowdsourced in-vehicle audio clips from an alternative, nowadays omnipresent source, smartphones, to achieve precise detection of rain leveraging a supervised recognizer constructed from a series of refined features. We conduct extensive experiments, and evaluation results demonstrate that Tefnut can detect the rain with 96.0% true positive rate, when deciding with a one-second-long in-vehicle audio segment only.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationWireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications - 11th International Conference, WASA 2016, Proceedings
EditorsYacine Challal, Qing Yang, Wei Yu
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages13-23
Number of pages11
ISBN (Print)9783319428352
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
Event11th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2016 - Bozeman, United States
Duration: Aug 8 2016Aug 10 2016

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9798 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Wireless Algorithms, Systems, and Applications, WASA 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBozeman
Period08/8/1608/10/16

Keywords

  • Rain detection
  • Signal processing
  • Smartphone
  • Supervised classification

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