Browsing by Author "Singhal, Pradyumann"
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- Affordable Housing In Washington D.C.Singhal, Pradyumann; Stahl, Dexter (Virginia tech, 2021-12-08)There is an affordable housing issue in our capital, Washington D.C. There needs to be intervention to create affordable housing to those that live under the poverty lines. In this we explain tools, technology and action plans to help solve this issue.
- Small-scale location identification in natural environments with deep learning based on biomimetic sonar echoesZhang, Liujun; Farabow, Andrew; Singhal, Pradyumann; Mueller, Rolf (IOP, 2023-01-20)Many bat species navigate in complex, heavily vegetated habitats. To achieve this, the animal relies on a sensory basis that is very different from what is typically done in engineered systems that are designed for outdoor navigation. Whereas the engineered systems rely on data-heavy senses such as lidar, bats make do with echoes triggered by short, ultrasonic pulses. Prior work has shown that "clutter echoes" originating from vegetation can convey information on the environment they were recorded in -- despite their unpredictable nature. The current work has investigated the spatial granularity that these clutter echoes can convey by applying deep-learning location identification to an echo data set that resulted from the dense spatial sampling of a forest environment. The GPS location corresponding to the echo collection events was clustered to break the survey area into the number of spatial patches ranging from two to 100. A convolutional neural network (Resnet 152) was used to identify the patch associated with echo sets ranging from one to ten echoes. The results demonstrate a spatial resolution that is comparable to the accuracy of recreation-grade GPS operating under foliage cover. This demonstrates that fine-grained location identification can be accomplished at very low data rates.