Marc Foster

Works (6)

Updated: January 21st, 2025 13:10

2023 article

An Exploration of Machine Learning Methods for Gait Analysis of Potential Guide Dogs

TENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ANIMAL-COMPUTER INTERACTION, ACI 2023.

By: Y. Wu n, C. Nichols n, M. Foster n , D. Martin n, J. Dieffenderfer n, M. Enomoto n , B. Lascelles  n, J. Russenberger ...

author keywords: Guide Dog; Canine Behavior Analysis; Canine Gait Analysis; IMU; Machine Learning
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Added: February 22, 2024

2022 article

Motion-Resilient ECG Signal Reconstruction from a Wearable IMU through Attention Mechanism and Contrastive Learning

NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ANIMAL-COMPUTER INTERACTION, ACI 2022.

By: J. Wang n, M. Foster n , A. Bozkurt n & D. Roberts n

author keywords: ECG; Inertial Measurement Unit; Machine Learning; Deep Neural Network
TL;DR: This study investigated two artificial neural network architectures to overcome severe noise artifacts in the IMU signal resulting from dogs’ movements and environmental factors and proposed and evaluated a machine learning framework that reconstructs ECG signals from IMU signals even under moderate to heavy movements. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: December 18, 2023

2022 journal article

Preliminary Evaluation of a System with On-Body and Aerial Sensors for Monitoring Working Dogs

SENSORS, 22(19).

By: M. Foster n , T. Wu n , D. Roberts n & A. Bozkurt n

author keywords: ECG; heart rate variability; electrodes; machine learning; 3D printing; wearable; drone; UAV; embedded system
MeSH headings : Algorithms; Animals; Dogs; Electrocardiography; Heart Rate; Monitoring, Physiologic; Working Dogs
TL;DR: An initial effort towards deployment of on-body and aerial sensors to monitor the working dogs and their environments during scent detection and search and rescue tasks in order to ensure their welfare, enable novel dog-machine interfaces, and allow for higher success rate of remote and automated task performance is presented. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Sources: Web Of Science, NC State University Libraries, ORCID
Added: October 24, 2022

2022 article

Spatial and Temporal Analytic Pipeline for Evaluation of Potential Guide Dogs Using Location and Behavior Data

NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ANIMAL-COMPUTER INTERACTION, ACI 2022.

By: Y. Wu n, T. Holder n, M. Foster n , E. Williams  n, M. Enomoto n , B. Lascelles  n, A. Bozkurt n, D. Roberts n

author keywords: Guide Dog; Canine Behavior Analysis; Feature Extraction; IMU; Machine Learning; Clustering
TL;DR: A preliminary data analysis workflow is demonstrated that is able to provide detailed information about candidate guide dogs’ day to day physical exercise levels and gait activities using objective environmental and behavioral data collected from a wearable collar-based Internet of Things device. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: March 30, 2023

2021 article

Noncontact Electrophysiology Monitoring Systems for Assessment of Canine-Human Interactions

2021 IEEE SENSORS.

By: P. Ahmmed n , T. Holder n, M. Foster n , I. Castro *, A. Patel *, T. Torfs *, A. Bozkurt n

author keywords: Animal-assisted interactions; canine-assisted therapy; capacitively coupled ECG; noncontact electrodes
TL;DR: A capacitively coupled biopotential recording system custom-designed for animal-human dyads that uses noncontact electrodes to monitor the heart rate and its variability to evaluate the physiological basis of the animal-assisted therapies. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: December 21, 2021

2020 journal article

Preliminary Evaluation of a Wearable Sensor System for Heart Rate Assessment in Guide Dog Puppies

IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, 20(16), 9449–9459.

By: M. Foster n , R. Brugarolas n, K. Walker n, S. Mealin n, Z. Cleghern n, S. Yuschak n, J. Clark n, D. Adin n ...

author keywords: ECG; heart rate variability; electrodes; machine learning; 3D printing; wearable
TL;DR: A novel wireless heart rate sensing system for puppies in training as guide dogs that includes a harness with on-board electrocardiography front-end circuit, inertial measurement unit and a micro-computer with wireless capability is developed. (via Semantic Scholar)
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Added: August 10, 2020

Education

Updated: June 24th, 2019 16:09

2016 - present

North Carolina State University Raleigh, NC, US
Graduate Student Researcher Electrical and Computer Engineering

2008 - 2013

University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, US
BS Electrical and Computer Engineering

2008 - 2013

University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA, US
BS Bioengineering

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