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Alois Ferscha is affiliated with Johannes Kepler University of Linz in Austria. Their research focuses primarily on fields within computer science and engineering with a strong emphasis on context-aware and safety-critical systems.

Their main research fields include:

  • Computer Science
  • Engineering

In these domains, they have contributed extensively to several subfields, notably:

  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Social Psychology
  • Radiological and Ultrasound Technology
  • Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine

The topics they frequently investigate cover diverse areas such as:

  • Context-Aware Activity Recognition Systems
  • Occupational Health and Safety Research
  • Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
  • Winter Sports Injuries and Performance
  • Cryospheric studies and observations
  • Anomaly Detection Techniques and Applications
  • Human Pose and Action Recognition

Alois Ferscha has published numerous articles in several journals and conference venues, with a notable concentration in the journal Sensors. Other publication venues include PeerJ Computer Science, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Applied Sciences, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Recent scientific papers authored or co-authored by Alois Ferscha include:

  • Alpine Skiing Activity Recognition Using Smartphone's IMUs, 2022, Sensors
  • Robust Feature Representation Using Multi-Task Learning for Human Activity Recognition, 2024, Sensors
  • Counting Activities Using Weakly Labeled Raw Acceleration Data: A Variable-Length Sequence Approach with Deep Learning to Maintain Event Duration Flexibility, 2023, Sensors
  • Sustainability Through Cognition Aware Safety Systems -- Next Level Human-Machine-Interaction, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • On the effectiveness of multi-feature evacuation systems: an agent-based exploratory simulation study, 2021, PeerJ Computer Science

Throughout their career, Alois Ferscha has frequently collaborated with other researchers, including coauthors such as:

  • Michael Haslgrübler
  • Behrooz Azadi
  • Georgios Sopidis
  • Martin Schobesberger
  • Bernhard Anzengruber-Tanase

Best Publications

  • Collecting complex activity datasets in highly rich networked sensor environments

    Daniel Roggen;Alberto Calatroni;Mirco Rossi;Thomas Holleczek

  • Parallel and distributed simulation of discrete event systems

    Alois Ferscha;Satish K. Tripathi

  • Augmented reality navigation systems

    Wolfgang Narzt;Gustav Pomberger;Alois Ferscha;Dieter Kolb

  • From Context Awareness to Socially Aware Computing

    P. Lukowicz;S. Pentland;A. Ferscha

  • Probabilistic adaptive direct optimism control in Time Warp

    Alois Ferscha

  • OPPORTUNITY: Towards opportunistic activity and context recognition systems

    Daniel Roggen;Kilian Forster;Alberto Calatroni;Thomas Holleczek

  • Recognizing and Predicting Context by Learning from User Behavior 1

    Rene Mayrhofer;Harald Radi;Alois Ferscha

  • Developing pervasive multi-agent systems with nature-inspired coordination

    Franco Zambonelli;Andrea Omicini;Bernhard Anzengruber;Gabriella Castelli

  • Tactor placement in wrist worn wearables

    Michael Matscheko;Alois Ferscha;Andreas Riener;Manuel Lehner

  • On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems: OTM 2012

    Robert Meersman;Hervé Panetto;Tharam Dillon;Stefanie Rinderle-Ma

  • Context awareness for group interaction support

    Alois Ferscha;Clemens Holzmann;Stefan Oppl

  • Heart on the road: HRV analysis for monitoring a driver's affective state

    Andreas Riener;Alois Ferscha;Mohamed Aly

  • Opportunistic human activity and context recognition

    D. Roggen;Gerhard Troster;P. Lukowicz;A. Ferscha

  • Self-aware Pervasive Service Ecosystems

    Franco Zambonelli;Gabriella Castelli;Laura Ferrari;Marco Mamei

  • Standardization of the in-car gesture interaction space

    A. Riener;A. Ferscha;F. Bachmair;P. Hagmüller

  • Constructing Ambient Intelligence

    Alois Ferscha;Erwin Aitenbichler;Max Mühlhäuser

  • Distributed simulation of Petri nets

    G. Chiola;A. Ferscha

  • A petri net approach for performance oriented parallel program design

    Alois Ferscha

  • A light-weight component model for peer-to-peer applications

    A. Ferscha;M. Hechinger;R. Mayrhofer;R. Oberhauser

  • Estimating rollback overhead for optimism control in Time Warp

    A. Ferscha;J. Luthi

  • Parallel and Distributed Simulation

    A. Ferscha

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Lukowicz
Paul Lukowicz German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
Daniel Roggen
Daniel Roggen University of Sussex
Ricardo Chavarriaga
Ricardo Chavarriaga École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
José del R. Millán
José del R. Millán The University of Texas at Austin
Franco Zambonelli
Franco Zambonelli University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Andrea Gaggioli
Andrea Gaggioli Catholic University of the Sacred Heart
Richard M. Fujimoto
Richard M. Fujimoto Georgia Institute of Technology
Stephan Olariu
Stephan Olariu Old Dominion University

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