Balz Maag

ETH Zurich | ETH Zürich · Department Information Technology and Electrical Engineering

With the rapid development of sharing economy and mobile Internet in recent years, a wide range of applications of the Two-sidedOnlineBipartiteMatching (TOBM) problem in spatial data are gaining increasing popularity. To be specific, given a group of workers and tasks that dynamically appear in a 2D space, the TOBM problem aims to find a matching w...

Great public speakers are made, not born. Practicing a presentation in front of colleagues is common practice and results in a set of subjective judgements what could be improved. In this paper we describe the design and implementation of a mobile app which estimates the quality of speaker's delivery in real time in a fair, repeatable and privacy-p...

Air pollution is a major concern for public health and urban environments. Conventional air pollution monitoring systems install a few highly accurate, expensive stations at representative locations. Their sparse coverage and low spatial resolution are insufficient to quantify urban air pollution and its impacts on human health and environment. Adv...

Accurate, portable and personal air pollution sensing devices enable quantification of individual exposure to air pollution, personalized health advice and assistance applications. Wearables are promising (e.g., on wristbands, attached to belts or backpacks) to integrate commercial off-the-shelf gas sensors for personal air pollution sensing. Yet p...

Sensing tongue movements enables various applications in hands-free interaction and alternative communication. We propose BARTON, a BARometer based low-power and robust TONgue movement sensing system. Using a low sampling rate of below 50 Hz, and only extracting simple temporal features from in-ear pressure signals, we demonstrate that it is plausi...

Urban air pollution monitoring with mobile, portable, low-cost sensors has attracted increasing research interest for their wide spatial coverage and affordable expenses to the general public. However, low-cost air quality sensors not only drift over time but also suffer from cross-sensitivities and dependency on meteorological effects. Therefore c...

Over the past few years, many low-cost pollution sensors have been integrated into measurement platforms for air quality monitoring. However, using these sensors is challenging: concentrations of toxic gases in ambient air often lie at sensors' sensitivity boundaries, environmental conditions affect the sensor signal, and the sensors are cross-sens...