Neuroplex

Abstract

Despite the remarkable success in a broad set of sensing applications, state-of-the-art deep learning techniques struggle with complex reasoning tasks across a distributed set of sensors. Unlike recognizing transient complex activities (e.g., human activities such as walking or running) from a single sensor, detecting more complex events with larger spatial and temporal dependencies across multiple sensors is extremely difficult, e.g., utilizing a hospital's sensor network to detect whether a nurse is following a sanitary protocol as they traverse from patient to patient. Training a more complicated model requires a larger amount of data-which is unrealistic considering complex events rarely happen in nature. Moreover, neural networks struggle with reasoning about serial, aperiodic events separated by large quantities in the spatial-temporal dimensions.