PUBLICATIONS
2025
Dai, Zhuangzhuang and Zakka, Gbouna Zakka, and Manso, Luis J. and Li, Chen (2025). GazeTarget360: Towards Gaze Target Estimation in 360-Degree for Robot Perception. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).
Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Zhuangzhuang Dai, Luis J. Manso (2025). Action Recognition in Real-World Ambient Assisted Living Environment. Journal of Big Data Mining and Analytics.
Maimunatu Tunau, Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Zhuangzhuang Dai (2025). Enhanced Sparse Point Cloud Data Processing for Privacy-aware Human Action Recognition. International Conference on AI in Healthcare.
Xue Cui, Minhyun Lee, Mohammad Nyme Uddin, Xuange Zhang, Vincent Gbouna Zakka (2025). Analysing different household energy use patterns using clustering and machine learning. Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
Xue Cui, Minhyun Lee, Vincent Gbouna Zakka (2024). A computer vision-based model for occupancy detection using low-resolution thermal images. 6th International Conference on Building Energy and Environment.
2024
Zhuangzhuang Dai, Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Luis J. Manso, Martin Rudorfer, Ulysses Bernardet, Johanna Zumer, Manolya Kavakli-Thorne (2024). Sensors, Techniques and Future Trends of Human Engagement Enabled Applications: A Review. Algorithms, 17(12).
Darras, Kevin; Balle, Marcel; Xu, Wenxiu; Yan, Yang; Zakka Gbouna, Vincent; Toletdo, Manuel; Sheng, Dong; Lin, Wei; Zhang, Boyu; Lan, Zhenzhong; Fupeng, Li; Wanger, Thomas (2024). Eyes on nature: Embedded vision cameras for terrestrial biodiversity monitoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Minhyun Lee, Ruxiaoxiao Zhang, Lijie Huang, Seunghoon Jung, Taehoon Hong (2024). Non-invasive vision-based personal comfort model using thermographic images and deep learning. Automation in Construction.
Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Minhyun Lee (2024). A generalized thermal comfort model using thermographic images and compact convolutional transformers: Towards scalable and adaptive occupant comfort optimization. Building and Environment.
Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Zhuangzhuang Dai, Luis J. Manso (2024). Multi-Head Adaptive Graph Convolution Network for Sparse Point Cloud-Based Human Activity Recognition. Submitted to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems.
2023
Kexin Xie, Minhyun Lee, Rihab Khalid, Vincent Gbouna Zakka (2023). The impact of personal environmental control on the performance of thermal systems: Building energy consumption, occupant thermal comfort and productivity. Energy and Buildings.
Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Zhuangzhuang Dai, Luis J. Manso (2023). Hierarchical Temporal Convolution Network: Towards Privacy-Centric Activity Recognition. 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence.
Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Zhuangzhuang Dai, Luis J. Manso (2023). Action Recognition for Privacy-Preserving Ambient Assisted Living. International Conference on AI in Healthcare. Best Paper Award
2022
Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Minhyun Lee (2022). An Integrated Design of Energy and Indoor Environmental Quality System for Effective Building Performance Management. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Construction Applications of Virtual Reality. Best Paper Award
2021
Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Gaoyang Pang, Geng Yang, Zeyang Hou, Honghao Lv, Zhangwei Yu, Zhibo Pang (2021). User-interactive robot skin with large-area scalability for safer and natural human-robot collaboration in future telehealthcare. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics. Featured on Cover Paper
Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Zeyang Hou, Gaoyang Pang, Huayong Yang, Geng Yang (2021). IoT-Enabled Robot Skin System for Enhancement of Safe Human-Robot Collaboration. International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Applications.
2019
Wenzhou Heng, Gaoyang Pang, Vincent Gbouna Zakka, Zhibo Pang, Kang Yi, Huayong Yang, Geng Yang (2019). Facile Fabrication of Highly Soft Tactile Sensor based on Porous Sponge with Geometry Effect on Sensing Characteristics. 2nd IEEE International Flexible Electronics Technology Conference.
