Selected Publications

2001
o A. Acquaviva, L. Benini, B. Ricco', "Software-Controlled Processor Speed-Setting for Low-power streaming multimedia,'' IEEE Transaction on Computer-Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, vol. 20, no. 11 pp. 1283--1292, November 2001.
o A. Acquaviva, L. Benini, B. Ricco', "Energy Characterization of Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems,'' ACM Computer Architecture News, vol. 29, no. 5 pp. 13--18, December 2001.
o A. Acquaviva, L. Benini, B. Ricco', "Processor Frequency Setting for Energy Minimization for Streaming Multimedia Application'', IEEE International Symposium on Hardware/Software Codesign, pp. 249--253, April 2001.
o A. Acquaviva, L. Benini, B. Ricco', "An Adaptive Algorithm for Low-Power Streaming Multimedia Processing'', IEEE Design, Automation and Test in Europe, pp. 273--279, March 2001.
o T. Simunic, L. Benini, A. Acquaviva, P. Glynn, G. De Micheli, "Dynamic Voltage Scaling and Power Management for Portable Systems'', IEEE Design Automation Conference, pp.~249--253, April 2001. 2002
o L. Benini, Bonfigli M.E., Brunelli D., E. Farella, Gaiani M., Riccò B.; "Using Palmtop Computers and Immersive Virtual Reality for Cooperative Archaeological Analysis: the Appian Way Case Study"; in Proceeding of the 8th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia(VSMM02) Korea, September 2002.
o Brunelli D., E. Farella, Bonfigli M.E., "Unthetered Interaction for Immersive Virtual Environments Through Handheld Devices" in Proceedings of Eurographics Italian Chapter Annual Conference, Milano Italy, July 2002.
o L. Benini, Bonfigli M.E., Calori L., E. Farella, Riccò B. "Palmtop Computers for managing Interaction with Immersive Virtual Heritage", in Proceedings of EUROMEDIA2002, pp. 183-189.
o A. Acquaviva, L. Benini, A. Ricco', ``Energy Characterization of Embedded Real-Time Operating Systems,'' Book chapter in Compiler and Operating Systems for Low Power, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
2003
o Farella E., Brunelli D., Bonfigli M.E., Benini L., Riccò B., Multi-client Cooperation and Wireless PDA Interaction in Immersive Virtual Environment; in Proceedings of EUROMEDIA2003, Plymouth, UK.
o Barbieri R., Farella E., Benini L. MOCA Project: MOtion Capture with Accelerometers, April 2003 in Design-In, VII- 5/2003, pp. 9-10.
2004
o A. Acquaviva, T. Simunic, S. Roy, V. Deolalikar, "Remote Power Control of Wireless Network Interfaces," Journal of Embedded Computing, 2004.
o A. Acquaviva, E. Lattanzi, A. Bogliolo, “Power Aware Network Swapping for Wireless Palmtop PCs”, IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, to be published, 2004
o Barbieri R., Farella E., Acquaviva A., Benini L., Riccò B. "A Low-Power Motion Capture System with Integrated Accelerometers" in Proceedings of Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, 2004. CCNC 2004. First IEEE, 5-8 Jan. 2004 Pages: 418- 423
o E. Farella, D. Brunelli, L. Benini, B. Riccò, M.E. Bonfigli, Visiting Virtual Heritage through Mobile Systems in Science and Supercomputing at CINECA, 2004 Technical Report, pp. 268-274
o L. Benini, A. Acquaviva, "Adaptive Algorithmic Power Optimization for Multimedia Workload in Mobile Environments", to appear in Handbook of Mobile Computing, CRC press, 2004.
2005
o Farella, E.; Brunelli, D.; Bonfigli, M.E; Benini, L.; Ricco, B. "Pervasive Computing for Interactive Virtual Heritage", Multimedia, IEEE, Vol.12, Iss.3, July-Sept. 2005 Pages: 46- 58
o Farella E., Acquaviva A., Benini L., Riccò B."A wearable gesture recognition system for natural navigation interfaces" in Proceedings of EUROMEDIA2005, Toulouse, 11-13 April 2005 pages 110-115
o Cucchiara, R.; Prati, A.; Benini, L.; Farella, E., "T-Park: ambient intelligence for security in public parks", in Proceedings of Intelligent Environments, 2005. The IEE International Workshop on (Ref. No. 2005/11059), 29 June 2005 Pages: 243- 251
o E. Farella, A. Pieracci, D. Brunelli, , A. Acquaviva, L. Benini, B. Riccó "Design and Implementation of WiMoCA Node for a Body Area Wireless Sensor Network" In proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Sensor Networks (SENET). Montreal, Canada. August, 2005, pages 342-347
o A. Prati, R. Vezzani and L. Benini, E. Farella, P. Zappi "An Integrated MultiModal Sensor Network for Video Surveillance" accepted at 3rd ACM International Workshop on Video Surveillance & Sensor Networks (VSSN05) Nov.11, 2005, Singapore, pages 95-102
2006
o Michele Sama, Vincenzo Pacella, Elisabetta Farella, Luca Benini, Bruno Ricco' "3dID: a Low-power, Low-cost Hand Motion Capture Device" accepted for publication (DATE06 - Designers' Forum)
o D. Brunelli, E. Farella, L. Rocchi, M. Dozza, L. Chiari, L. Benini, "Bio-feedback System for Rehabilitation Based on Wireless Body Area Network" in Proceedings of Fourth IEEE international Conference on Pervasive Computing (Percom06) - Ubicare 2006 Workshop, pp 527-531
o Elisabetta Farella, Sile O'Modhrain, Luca Benini, Bruno Ricco' "Gesture Signature for Ambient Intelligence Applications: a Feasibility Study" accepted for publication (PERVASIVE06)
o P. Zappi, E. Farella, L. Benini "A PIR based wireless sensor node prototype for surveillance applications" to be published in Proc. Of European Workshop on Wireless Sensor Networks (EWSN 06), Zurich - CH, 13-15 Feb. 2006
o L. Benini, E. Farella, C. Guiducci "Wireless Sensor Networks: enabling technology for Ambient Intelligence" to be published in MEJ - Special issue on IWASI
o Rita Cucchiara, Andrea Prati, Roberto Vezzani, Luca Benini, Elisabetta Farella, Piero Zappi "Using a Wireless Sensor Network to Enhance Video Surveillance" to be published in Journal of Ubiquitous Computing and Intelligence (JUCI)
o E. Farella, A. Pieracci, A. Acquaviva, L. Benini "A Wireless Body Area Sensor Network for Posture Detection" to be published in Proceedings of ISCC06
o C. Moser, D. Brunelli, L. Thiele and L. Benini"Lazy Scheduling for Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes"In The Fifth IFIP Working Conference on Distributed and Parallel Embedded Systems (DIPES 06), Braga, Portugal, October 13-15, 2006.

2007

C. Moser, D. Brunelli, L. Thiele and L. Benini "Adaptive Power Management in Energy Harvesting Systems" in Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe conference, DATE 2007 Nice, France, April 16-19, 2007.

C. Moser, D. Brunelli, L. Thiele and L. Benini "Real-time Scheduling for Energy Harvesting Sensor Nodes" Int. Journal Real-Time Systems, January 2007.

D. Dondi, D. Brunelli, L. Benini, P. Pavan, A. Bertacchini and L. Larcher "Photovoltaic Cell Modeling for Solar Energy Powered Sensor Networks" in Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces, IWASI 2007.

E. Farella, A. Pieracci, A. Acquaviva, L. Benini "Inertial sensors for Wireless Body Area Networks: the WiMoCA Solution" ST Journal of Research, Volume 4, Number 1 - April 2007 - Wireless Sensor Networks ISSN 1828-2105

Elisabetta Farella, Luca Benini, Bruno Riccò, and Andrea Acquaviva, "MOCA: A Low-Power, Low-Cost Motion Capture System Based on Integrated Accelerometers," Advances in Multimedia, vol. 2007, Article ID 82638, 11 pages, 2007.

Piero Zappi, Elisabetta Farella, Luca Benini "A Novel Algorithm for Human Tracking Based on Pyroelectric Infrared Detectors" Advanced Video and Signal Based Surveillance, 2007. AVSS 2007. IEEE Conference on , vol., no., pp.295-300, 5-7 Sept. 2007

L.Rocchi, E.Farella, M.Benocci, E.Santarmou, L.Benini, L.Chiari "Modular architecture for a wireless bio-feedback system for balance control" Poster, PHealth 2007, Porto Carras, Greece June 2007

Elisabetta Farella, Luca Benini, contribution to Book Chapter 4 "Human-Robot Cognitive Interaction", Case Study: Gesture and posture recognition using WSN, CS 4.8 in "Wearable Robots: Biomechatronic Exoskeletons", Wiley & Sons editors

Stefano Baraldi, Alberto Del Bimbo, Lea Landucci, Nicola Torpei, Omar Cafini, Elisabetta Farella, Augusto Pieracci, Luca Benini "Introducing TANGerINE: A Tangible Interactive Natural Environment" in Proceedings of the 15th international Conference on Multimedia (Augsburg, Germany, September 25 - 29, 2007). MULTIMEDIA '07. ACM, New York, NY, 831-834

Piero Zappi, Thomas Stiefmeier, Elisabetta Farella, Daniel Roggen, Luca Benini, Gerhard Tröster "Activity recognition from on-body sensors by classifier fusion: sensor scalability and robustness" in Proceedings of The Third International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP) 2007, pages 281-286, Melbourne, 3-6 December 2007

M.Gaiani, E.Gamberini, G.Tonelli, M.E.Bonfigli, L.Calori, A.Guidazzoli, D.Brunelli, E.Farella, L.Benini, B.Riccò,. (2007). Realtà Virtuale come strumento di lavoro per il restauro Architettonico e Archeologico: il 3D Virtual GIS "La Via Appia antica". UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia. Studi e Scavi (22). 'UT NATURA ARS. Virtual Reality e archeologia'. Bologna. 2002. (pp. 107 - 114). ISBN: 88-86946-80-5. IMOLA: University Press Bologna (ITALY).

A. E. SUSU, M. MAGNO, A. ACQUAVIVA, D. ATIENZA, G. DE MICHELI Exploration of Reconfiguration Strategies for Environmentally Powered Devices. TRANSACTIONS ON HIPEAC-1, LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE (LNCS), SPRINGER-VERLAG BERLING HEIDELBERG NEW YORK. VOL. 4050, pp. 341-360 February 2007.

A.KERHET, F. LEONARDI, A.BONI, P. LOMBARDO, MAGNO M., L. BENINI. (2007). DISTRIBUTED VIDEO SURVEILLANCE USING HARDWARE-FRIENDLY SPARSE LARGE MARGIN CLASSIFIERS. Advanced Video and Signal based Surveillance. London. 5-7 September

MAGNO M., L. BENINI. (2007). A Low-Power Configurable Wireless Video Sensor Node for Distributed Vision Applications. International Conference on Distributed Smart Cameras. Vienna - Austria. September 25-28, 2007

KERHET A., MAGNO M., F. LEONARDI, A.BONI, L. BENINI. A low-power wireless video sensor node for distributed object detection. JOURNAL OF REAL-TIME IMAGE PROCESSING. ISSN: 1861-8200.

2008

Marco Gaiani, Fausto Brevi, Elisabetta Farella, Alice Pignatel, Luca Benini "The use of a palm computer for design review interaction in a virtual room" in proceedings of the 16-th International Conference in Central Europe on Computer Graphics, Visualization and Computer Vision' 2008, pages 127-134, ISBN 978-86943-15-2

Piero Zappi, Elisabetta Farella, Luca Benini and Clemens Lombriser, Thomas Stiefmeier, Daniel Roggen, Gerhard Tröster "Activity recognition from on-body sensors: accuracy-power trade-off by dynamic sensor selection" in proceedings of EWSN08 pp.17-33- Best Paper

Laura Rocchi, Marco Benocci, Elisabetta Farella, Luca Benini, Lorenzo Chiari "Validation of a Wireless Portable Biofeedback System for Balance Control: Preliminary Results" Tampere Finland January 2008, Pervasive Health Conference

Stefano Baraldi, Luca Benini, Omar Cafini, Alberto Del Bimbo, Elisabetta Farella, Giulia Gelmini, Lea Landucci, Augusto Pieracci, Nicola Torpei "Evolving TUIs with Smart Objects for multi-context interaction" accepted as Work In Progress at CHI 2008

Elisabetta Farella, Augusto Pieracci, Andrea Acquaviva, Luca Benini, Laura Rocchi "Interfacing Human and Computer with Wireless Body Area Sensor Networks: The WiMoCA Solution" to be published in Special Issue "Natural Interaction" on Multimedia Tools and Applications (MTAP) DOI 10.1007/s11042-007-0189-5.

C. Moser, L. Thiele, D. Brunelli and L. Benini "Approximate Control Design for Solar Driven Sensor Nodes"
accepted for The 11th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC'08).

D. Brunelli, C. Moser, L. Benini and L. Thiele "An Efficient Solar Energy Harvester for Wireless Sensor Nodes" in Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe conference, DATE 2008 Munich, Germany, March 10-14, 2008.

C. Moser, L. Thiele, D. Brunelli and L. Benini" Robust and Low Complexity Rate Control for Solar Powered Sensors" in Proceedings of Design, Automation and Test in Europe conference, DATE 2008 Munich, Germany, March 10-14, 2008.

D. Brunelli, M. Maggiorotti, L Benini and F.L. Bellifemine "Analysis of Audio Streaming Capability of Zigbee Networks" in Proceedings of the Fifth European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2008, Bologna, Italy

A. Bertacchini, D. Dondi, L. Larcher, P. Pavan, D. Brunelli and L. Benini "Solar harvesting per reti di sensori wireless" Design-In 2008, January

D. Brunelli, L. Benini, C. Moser and L. Thiele "Real-time scheduling for Energy Harvesting Sensor Networks" PhD forum at Design, Automation and Test in Europe conference, DATE 2008, Munich, Germany, March 10-14, 2008.

D. Brunelli, V. Bella and F.L. Bellifemine "Microsolar Scavengers for Ultra-low Power Wireless Sensor Nodes" in poster session of the Fifth European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2008, Bologna, Italy

M. Magno, D. Brunelli, P. Zappi and L. Benini "A Self-powered Video Node Triggered by PIR Sensors" in poster session of the Fifth European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2008, Bologna, Italy

S. Di Pompeo and D. Brunelli "Radio Frequency Power Transfer for Wireless Sensor Networks" in poster session of the Fifth European conference on Wireless Sensor Networks, EWSN 2008, Bologna, Italy