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A main challenge in target localization arises from the lack of reliable distance measures. This issue is especially pronounced in indoor settings due to the presence of walls, floors, furniture, and other dynamically changing conditions…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-07 Mahesh K. Banavar , Shandeepa Wickramasinghe , Monalisa Achalla , Jie Sun

Acoustic reflector localization is an important issue in audio signal processing, with direct applications in spatial audio, scene reconstruction, and source separation. Several methods have recently been proposed to estimate the 3D…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-01-06 Luca Remaggi , Philip J. B. Jackson , Philip Coleman , Wenwu Wang

We present an indoor acoustic simulation framework that supports both ultrasonic and audible signaling. The framework opens the opportunity for fast indoor acoustic data generation and positioning development. The improved…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-22 Daan Delabie , Chesney Buyle , Bert Cox , Liesbet Van der Perre , Lieven De Strycker

Locating the persons moving through an environment without the necessity of them being equipped with special devices has become vital for many applications including security, IoT, healthcare, etc. Existing device-free indoor localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-04 Mohamed Mohsen , Hamada Rizk , Hirozumi Yamaguch , Moustafa Youssef

The abstract discusses the significance of Visible Light Communication (VLC) as an efficient and cost-effective solution in the era of green technology. VLC not only provides illumination but also high-speed data transmission through…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-09-19 Vailet Hikmat Faraj Al Khattat , Siti Barirah Ahmad Anas , Abdu Saif

Room impulse response (RIR), which measures the sound propagation within an environment, is critical for synthesizing high-fidelity audio for a given environment. Some prior work has proposed representing RIR as a neural field function of…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Susan Liang , Chao Huang , Yapeng Tian , Anurag Kumar , Chenliang Xu

An accurate room localization system is a powerful tool for providing location-based services. Considering that people spend most of their time indoors, indoor localization systems are becoming increasingly important in designing smart…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-04-25 Jose Luis Carrera V. , Zhongliang Zhao , Torsten Braun

Indoor localization is a long-standing challenge in mobile computing, with significant implications for enabling location-aware and intelligent applications within smart environments such as homes, offices, and retail spaces. As AI…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-26 Amod K. Agrawal

Indoor localization is a cornerstone of mobile services. Until now most of the research effort has focused on achieving sub-meter localization accuracy because many mobile applications depend on precise localization measurements. In some…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-12-06 Qingzhi Liu , Wieger IJntema , Anass Drif , Przemysław Pawełczak , Marco Zuniga

During the performance of sound source localization which uses both visual and aural information, it presently remains unclear how much either image or sound modalities contribute to the result, i.e. do we need both image and sound for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-14 Takashi Oya , Shohei Iwase , Ryota Natsume , Takahiro Itazuri , Shugo Yamaguchi , Shigeo Morishima

WiFi technology has been used pervasively in fine-grained indoor localization, gesture recognition, and adaptive communication. Achieving better performance in these tasks generally boils down to differentiating Line-Of-Sight (LOS) from…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-06 Sahib Singh Dhanjal , Maani Ghaffari , Ryan M. Eustice

People spend a significant amount of time in indoor spaces (e.g., office buildings, subway systems, etc.) in their daily lives. Therefore, it is important to develop efficient indoor spatial query algorithms for supporting various…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-05-27 Bo Hui , Wenlu Wang , Jiao Yu , Zhitao Gong , Wei-Shinn Ku , Min-Te Sun , Hua Lu

In real-world acoustic scenarios, there often are multiple sound sources present in a room. These sources are situated in various locations and produce sounds that reach the listener from multiple directions. The presence of multiple…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Kyungyun Lee , Jeonghun Seo , Keunwoo Choi , Sangmoon Lee , Ben Sangbae Chon

The detection of the environment where user is located, is of extreme use for the identification of Activities of Daily Living (ADL). ADL can be identified by use of the sensors available in many off-the-shelf mobile devices, including…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Ivan Miguel Pires , Nuno M. Garcia , Nuno Pombo , Francisco Flórez-Revuelta

We present \emph{SmartLoc}, a localization system to estimate the location and the traveling distance by leveraging the lower-power inertial sensors embedded in smartphones as a supplementary to GPS. To minimize the negative impact of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-31 Cheng Bo , Xiang-Yang Li , Taeho Jung , Xufei Mao

With the advent of Internet of Thing (IoT), and ubiquitous data collected every moment by either portable (smart phone) or fixed (sensor) devices, it is important to gain insights and meaningful information from the sensor data in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-12 Mohammadhossein Toutiaee

This paper presents a multifunctional interdisciplinary framework that makes four scientific contributions towards the development of personalized ambient assisted living, with a specific focus to address the different and dynamic needs of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Nirmalya Thakur , Chia Y. Han

Indoor localization has become increasingly important due to its wide-ranging applications in indoor navigation, emergency services, the Internet of Things (IoT), and accessibility for individuals with special needs. Traditional…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Mohamed I. Hany , Hamada Rizk , Moustafa Youssef

The estimation of room impulse responses (RIRs) between static loudspeaker and microphone locations can be done using a number of well-established measurement and inference procedures. While these procedures assume a time-invariant acoustic…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-11-14 Kathleen MacWilliam , Thomas Dietzen , Randall Ali , Toon van Waterschoot

Knowing the geometry of a space is desirable for many applications, e.g. sound source localization, sound field reproduction or auralization. In circumstances where only acoustic signals can be obtained, estimating the geometry of a room is…

Sound · Computer Science 2019-07-03 Linh Nguyen , Jaime Valls Miro , Xiaojun Qiu