The emergence of water-proof mobile and wearable devices (e.g., Garmin Descent and Apple Watch Ultra) designed for underwater activities like professional scuba diving, opens up opportunities for underwater networking and localization capabilities on these devices. Here, we present the first underwater acoustic positioning system for smart devices. Unlike conventional systems Read More ...
Justin will be joining Carnegie Mellon University as an assistant professor in the School of Computer Science in Software and Societal Systems and in Electrical and Computer Engineering in Fall 2024. Congrats Justin!
We present NeuriCam, a novel deep learning-based system to achieve video capture from low-power dual-mode IoT camera systems. Our idea is to design a dual-mode camera system where the first mode is low power (1.1 mW) but only outputs grey-scale, low resolution and noisy video and the second mode consumes Read More ...
We present the first neural network model to achieve real-time and streaming target sound extraction. To accomplish this,we propose Waveformer, an encoder-decoder architecture witha stack of dilated causal convolution layers as the encoder, anda transformer decoder layer as the decoder. This hybrid archi-tecture uses dilated causal convolutions for processing large Read More ...
The tech giant acquired Sound Life Sciences, a small University of Washington spinout that developed an app to monitor breathing, GeekWire has learned. https://www.geekwire.com/2022/exclusive-google-quietly-acquired-a-seattle-digital-health-startup-that-built-an-app-to-monitor-breathing/ Gollakota founded the company in 2018. Sound Life Sciences’ app monitored breathing using sonar technology to detect movement. The app had the potential to ease the Read More ...
Check out our large effort to helping enable new born hearing screening in Kenya. https://tune.cs.washington.edu/Home.html
Check out our Nature biomedical engineering paper on detecting otoacoustic emissions using smartphones and earphones and using it for new-born hearing screenin. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-022-00947-6
Ex-Ph.D. student, Vikram Iyer, was awarded the SIGMOBILE Doctoral Dissertation Award for “creative and inspiring work that shows how low-power sensing, computing and communication technologies can be used to emulate naturally-occurring biological capabilities.” Congrats Vikram on an inspiring Ph.D. thesis and joining UW CSE as professor Vikram is the third Read More ...
Since its inception, underwater digital acoustic communication has required custom hardware that neither has the economies of scale nor is pervasive. We present the first acoustic system that brings underwater messaging capabilities to existing mobile devices like smartphones and smart watches. Our software-only solution leverages audio sensors, i.e., microphones and Read More ...
Middle ear disorders are one of the most common causes of preventable hearing loss. Unfortunately, while the developing world bears a disproportionate burden of these disorders, it often lacks access to diagnostic tools. Tympanometry is a key test to measure middle ear function, but remains available only on expensive test Read More ...