Dr. Venet Osmani

Senior Researcher

Telecommunications Software and Systems Group [TSSG]
ArcLabs Carriganore West Campus,
Waterford Institute of Technology,
Cork Road, Waterford, Ireland

phone: +353 51 30 2902

email: vosmani (at) tssg (dot) org

http://www.tssg.org/people/vosmani
 

My research interests are focused primarily in the area of Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing. I am particularly interested in developing novel concepts and methods to monitor user behaviour within Pervasive Computing environments and techniques to recognise human activities. Human activity recognition can be applied to a number of domains; however, my particular interests lie in the healthcare application. The aim is to enable patients suffering from diseases that cause cognitive impairment, such as Alzheimer’s disease, to live independently. Through recognising patients’ intentions, various audio/visual clues can be provided to help these patients complete their activities and live without needing a carer, for as long as possible. Other interests within activity recognition research include sensor networks self-organisation techniques and machine learning.

I’m currently working on the PERSIST project.

Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, and Dmitri Botvich, "Human activity recognition in pervasive health-care: Supporting efficient remote collaboration", Accepted for publication in Elsevier Journal of Network and Computer Applications (JNCA), ISSN: 1084-8045, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2007.11.002, to appear, 2008

Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, Dmitri Botvich, Thomas Stair, and William Donnelly, "A novel approach for monitoring and analysing behaviour of Alzheimer's patients", IEEE Transactions of Information Technology in BioMedicine (T-ITB), under review, 2007

Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, and Dmitri Botvich, "A Bayesian Network and Rule-base Approach Towards Activity Inference", In Proc. of IEEE 66th Vehicular Technology Conference (VTC2007-Fall), doi:10.1109/VETECF.2007.67, pp. 254-258, Washington DC, USA, 2007

Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, and Dmitri Botvich, "Self-Organising Object Networks using Context Zones for Distributed Activity Recognition", In Proc. of Second International Conference on Body Area Networks (BodyNets'07), in cooperation with ACM SIGCHI, ISBN: 978-963-06-2193-9, id. 152, Florence, Italy, 2007

Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, and Tao Gu, "A Distributed Hierarchical Structure for Object Networks Supporting Human Activity Recognition", In Proc. of 9th IFIP/IEEE International Conference on Management of Multimedia and Mobile Networks and Services, MMNS 2006, doi:10.1007/11907381, LNCS vol. 4267, Dublin, Ireland, 2006

Venet Osmani and Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, "Context Management Support for Activity Recognition in Health-Care", Pervasive 2006 Workshop Proceedings, ISBN 978-3-00-018411-6, pp.453-465 T. Strang, V. Cahill, & A. Quigley, eds, Dublin, Ireland, 2006

Venet Osmani, Sasitharan Balasubramaniam, and Dmitri Botvich, "Challenges for Human Activity Recognition", 4th International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services part of IM 2007, Multicon Lecture Notes, ISBN: 3-930736-07-01, pp. 201-208, Munich, Germany, 2007

Mike White, Brendan Jennings, Venet Osmani, and Sven van der Meer, "Context Driven, User-Centric Access Control for Smart Spaces", The IEE International Workshop on Intelligent Environments (IE 05), pp. 13-19, Colchester, United Kingdom, 2005

Venet Osmani and Sven van der Meer, "Context? Yes but to whom?" International workshop on Context in Mobile HCI in conjunction with MobileHCI'05, Salzburg, Austria, 2005

Venet Osmani, Keara Barrett, Ray Carroll, Brendan Jennings, and Sven van der Meer, "An architecture for User-centric Management of Intelligent Environments", Proc. of 28th IEEE (Region 8) International Convention Mipro (Mipro'05), Opatija, Croatia, May 30 - June 3, 2005

Keara Barrett, Ray Carroll, Venet Osmani, and Sven van der Meer, "User-Centric Management of Ubiquitous Environments - Challenges & Initial Solutions", 2nd International Workshop on Managing Ubiquitous Communications and Services (MUCS 2004), 2004

Reviewer for a number of conferences and journals including:

Elseiver’s JNCA, Troubador’s JPCC, NOMS2008, AmI-07, CODS2007, IEEEVTC 2007, PerCom2007, UIC2007, IPOM2006, MACE2006, MMNS2006, MSN06, Pervasive2006 (LBR), UIC2006, IT&T2005, LoCA2005, WMCS2005, LCN’04, MUCS2004.

Member of IEEE and ACM
 

I have taught the following subjects:


Computer Networks (Basic networking concepts, history, hardware, topologies, protocols, addressing, routing, emerging wireless standards)

Introduction to Programming (computer languages, numbering systems, development environments, introduction to Java, memory concepts, primitive data types, operators, console I/O, control statements, methods, complex data types, simple algorithms)

Advanced Programming (data structures, File I/O, object oriented concepts – inheritance, polymorphism, abstraction, threads, socket programming, graphical user interfaces, database access)

Introduction to Software Engineering (Software evolution, process, complexity, comparison of traditional software development models, requirements analysis, use cases, object-oriented paradigm, ERD, DFD, UML)

I received a first class honours BSc degree in Applied Computing in 2003. I transferred from a Masters course in 2005 and finished my PhD in 2008 in Waterford Institute of Technology. My primary advisor was Dr. Sasitharan Balasubrmaniam and my thesis title was “Recognising Human Activities Through Distributed Self-organising Object Networks with Application to Pervasive Healthcare”.