English
Related papers

Related papers: A Visible Light Based Indoor Positioning System

200 papers

Visible Light Communication (VLC) is emerging as a means to network computing devices that ameliorates many hurdles of radio-frequency (RF) communications, for example, the limited available spectrum. Enabling VLC in wearable computing,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-03-26 Ambuj Varshney , Luca Mottola , Thiemo Voigt

Visually impaired people usually find it hard to travel independently in many public places such as airports and shopping malls due to the problems of obstacle avoidance and guidance to the desired location. Therefore, in the highly dynamic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Yanbaihui Liu

Visible light communication (VLC) systems are promising candidates for future indoor access and peer-to-peer networks. The performance of these systems, however, is vulnerable to the line of sight (LOS) link blockage due to objects inside…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2020-09-10 Hamid Hosseinianfar , Maite Brandt-Pearce

Visible light communication (VLC) utilizes light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to transmit wireless data. A VLC network can also be used to localize mobile users in indoor environments, where the global positioning system (GPS) signals are weak.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Yusuf Eroglu , Fatih Erden , Ismail Guvenc

Estimating the precise location of a camera using visual localization enables interesting applications such as augmented reality or robot navigation. This is particularly useful in indoor environments where other localization technologies,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Donghwan Lee , Soohyun Ryu , Suyong Yeon , Yonghan Lee , Deokhwa Kim , Cheolho Han , Yohann Cabon , Philippe Weinzaepfel , Nicolas Guérin , Gabriela Csurka , Martin Humenberger

We propose a real-time method to estimate spatiallyvarying indoor lighting from a single RGB image. Given an image and a 2D location in that image, our CNN estimates a 5th order spherical harmonic representation of the lighting at the given…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-11 Mathieu Garon , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Sunil Hadap , Nathan Carr , Jean-François Lalonde

Illuminating a scene with artificial light is a prerequisite for seeing in dark environments. However, nonuniform and dynamic illumination can deteriorate or even break computer vision approaches, for instance when operating a robot with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-30 Yifan Song , Furkan Elibol , Mengkun She , David Nakath , Kevin Köser

Domestic service robots such as lawn mowing and vacuum cleaning robots are the most numerous consumer robots in existence today. While early versions employed random exploration, recent systems fielded by most of the major manufacturers…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-05-26 James Mount , Michael Milford

The positioning of users using their smartphones represents interesting service for various areas. Position of users can represent valuable information for various service providers. In industry 4.0 smart devices such as smartphone or…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-09-27 Jan Racko , Juraj Machaj , Peter Brida

Visible light communications (VLC) that use the infrastructure of the indoor illumination system have been envisioned as a compact, safe, and green alternative to WiFi for the downlink of an indoor wireless mobile communication system.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-15 Mohammad Noshad , Maite Brandt-Pearce

Nowadays, indoor localization has received extensive research interest due to more and more applications' needs for location information to provide a more precise and effective service [1], [2]. There are various wireless techniques and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Taolei Shi , Wei Gong

Integrated visible light positioning and communication (VLPC), capable of combining advantages of visible light communications (VLC) and visible light positioning (VLP), is a promising key technology for the future Internet of Things. In…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Shuai Ma , Ruixin Yang , Chun Du , Hang Li , Youlong Wu , Naofal Al-Dhahir , Shiyin Li

Visible light communication (VLC) has become a promising research topic in recent years, and finds its wide applications in indoor environments. Particularly, for location based services (LBS), visible light also provides a practical…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-18 Wenjun Gu , Mohammadreza A. Kashani , Mohsen Kavehrad

Accurate indoor positioning for wireless communication systems represents an important step towards enhanced reliability and security, which are crucial aspects for realizing Industry 4.0. In this context, this paper presents an…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-06-07 Ivo Bizon , Zhongju Li , Ahmad Nimr , Marwa Chafii , Gerhard P. Fettweis

Indoor Positioning System (IPS) is a crucial technology that enables medical staff and hospital managements to accurately locate and track persons or assets inside the medical buildings. Among other technologies, Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-24 Silvano Cortesi , Marc Dreher , Michele Magno

Indoor human positioning has become increasingly important for applications such as health monitoring, breath monitoring, human identification, safety and rescue operations, and security surveillance. However, achieving robust indoor human…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-08 Amala Sonny , Abhinav Kumar , Linga Reddy Cenkeramaddi

Indoor visible light communication (VLC) is a promising sixth-generation (6G) technology, as its directional and sensitive optical signals are naturally suited for integrated sensing and communication (ISAC). However, current research…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-27 Xinyan Xie , Xuesong Wang , Xin Lai , Yongheng Wen , Fengrui Yang , Haoyang He , Lai Zhang , Dong Zhao

Inferring the location of a mobile device in an indoor setting is an open problem of utmost significance. A leading approach that does not require the deployment of expensive infrastructure is fingerprinting, where a classifier is trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Erez Peterfreund , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Ariel Jaffe

The increasing demand for wireless sensing systems has led to the exploration of alternative technologies to overcome the spectrum scarcity of traditional approaches based on radio frequency (RF) waves or microwaves. Incoherent light…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-21 Md Zobaer Islam , Sabit Ekin , John F. O'Hara

Indoor navigation remains a complex challenge due to the absence of reliable GPS signals and the architectural intricacies of large enclosed environments. This study presents an indoor localization and navigation approach that integrates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Keyan Rahimi , Md. Wasiul Haque , Sagar Dasgupta , Mizanur Rahman