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While fingerprinting localization is favored for its effectiveness, it is hindered by high data acquisition costs and the inaccuracy of static database-based estimates. Addressing these issues, this letter presents an innovative indoor…

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Existing fingerprinting-based localization methods often require extensive data collection and struggle to generalize to new environments. In contrast to previous environment-unknown MetaLoc, we propose GenMetaLoc in this paper, which first…

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