Dinesh Vaithyalingam Gangatharan

Mr. Dinesh Vaithyalingam Gangatharan

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Academic Career Length

9Years (2018-Present)

(Calculated once Scilit publication data is synced: current year − year of first publication + 1)

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4 May 2018 in Informatics
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BFBiying Fu
Biying Fu
FKFlorian Kirchbuchner
Florian Kirchbuchner
Arjan KuijperArjan Kuijper
Arjan Kuijper
ABAndreas Braun
Andreas Braun
DGDinesh Vaithyalingam Gangatharan
Dinesh Vaithyalingam Gangatharan
Quantified Self has seen an increased interest in recent years, with devices including smartwatches, smartphones, or other wearables that allow you to monitor your fitness level. This is often combined with mobile apps that use gamification aspects to motivate the user to perform fitness activities, or increase the amount of sports exercise. Thus far, most applications rely on accelerometers or gyroscopes that are integrated into the devices. They have to be worn on the body to track activities. In this work, we investigated the use of a speaker and a microphone that are integrated into a smartphone to track exercises performed close to it. We combined active sonar and Doppler signal analysis in the ultrasound spectrum that is not perceivable by humans. We wanted to measure the body weight exercises bicycles, toe touches, and squats, as these consist of challenging radial movements towards the measuring device. We have tested several classification methods, ranging from support vector machines to convolutional neural networks. We achieved an accuracy of 88% for bicycles, 97% for toe-touches and 91% for squats on our test set.