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Predicting smartphone users activity using WiFi fingerprints has been a popular approach for indoor positioning in recent years. However, such a high dimensional time-series prediction problem can be very tricky to solve. To address this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Weizhu Qian , Fabrice Lauri , Franck Gechter

Location is key to spatialize internet-of-things (IoT) data. However, it is challenging to use low-cost IoT devices for robust unsupervised localization (i.e., localization without training data that have known location labels). Thus, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 You Li , Xin Hu , Yuan Zhuang , Zhouzheng Gao , Peng Zhang , Naser El-Sheimy

This paper explores the data cleaning challenges that arise in using WiFi connectivity data to locate users to semantic indoor locations such as buildings, regions, rooms. WiFi connectivity data consists of sporadic connections between…

Radio frequency (RF)-based indoor localization offers significant promise for applications such as indoor navigation, augmented reality, and pervasive computing. While deep learning has greatly enhanced localization accuracy and robustness,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Guosheng Wang , Shen Wang , Lei Yang

The scale of wireless technologies penetration in our daily lives, primarily triggered by the Internet-of-things (IoT)-based smart cities, is beaconing the possibilities of novel localization and tracking techniques. Recently, low-power…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-03 Mahnoor Anjum , Muhammad Abdullah Khan , Syed Ali Hassan , Aamir Mahmood , Hassaan Khaliq Qureshi , Mikael Gidlund

We propose a localization algorithm for wireless sensor networks, which is simple in design, does not involve significant overhead and yet provides acceptable position estimates of sensor nodes. The algorithm uses settled nodes as beacon…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Muhammad Farooq-i-Azam , Muhammad Naeem Ayyaz , Saleem Akhtar

Contrasting to advances in street/outdoor navigation, wall mounted maps and signs continue to be the primary reference indoor navigation in hospitals, malls, museums, etc. The proliferation of mobile devices and the growing demand for…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-05-23 Sagar V. Ramani , Yagnik N. Tank

Fingerprint classification is an effective technique for reducing the candidate numbers of fingerprints in the stage of matching in automatic fingerprint identification system (AFIS). In recent years, deep learning is an emerging technology…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-19 Ruxin Wang , Congying Han , Yanping Wu , Tiande Guo

Indoor localization has recently witnessed an increase in interest, due to the potential wide range of services it can provide by leveraging Internet of Things (IoT), and ubiquitous connectivity. Different techniques, wireless technologies…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-01-18 Faheem Zafari , Athanasios Gkelias , Kin Leung

One major bottleneck in the practical implementation of received signal strength (RSS) based indoor localization systems is the extensive deployment efforts required to construct the radio maps through fingerprinting. In this paper, we aim…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-10-15 Sameh Sorour , Yves Lostanlen , Shahrokh Valaee

Evolving Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications often require the use of sensor-based indoor tracking and positioning, for which the performance is significantly improved by identifying the type of the surrounding indoor environment. This…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-01-08 Mohamed I. AlHajri , Nazar T. Ali , Raed M. Shubair

Human identification plays an important role in human-computer interaction. There have been numerous methods proposed for human identification (e.g., face recognition, gait recognition, fingerprint identification, etc.). While these methods…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2016-08-12 Tong Xin , Bin Guo , Zhu Wang , Mingyang Li , Zhiwen Yu

Fingerprint localization has gained significant attention due to its cost-effective deployment, low complexity, and high efficacy. However, traditional methods, while effective for static data, often struggle in dynamic environments where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jiyu Jiao , Xiaojun Wang , Chengpei Han

Privacy issues related to video camera feeds have led to a growing need for suitable alternatives that provide functionalities such as user authentication, activity classification and tracking in a noninvasive manner. Existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Vinoj Jayasundara , Hirunima Jayasekara , Tharaka Samarasinghe , Kasun T. Hemachandra

In this study, we explore the use of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) in visual place classification for robotic mapping and localization. An open question is how to partition the robot's workspace into places to maximize the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-22 Fei Xiaoxiao , Tanaka Kanji , Inamoto Kouya

Location fingerprint (LF) has been widely applied in indoor positioning. However, the existing studies on LF mostly focus on the fingerprint of WiFi below 6 GHz, bluetooth, ultra wideband (UWB), etc. The LF with millimeter-wave (mmWave) was…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Zhiqing Wei , Yadong Zhao , Xinyi Liu , Zhiyong Feng

Indoor localization systems commonly rely on fingerprinting, which requires extensive survey efforts to obtain location-tagged signal data, limiting their real-world deployability. Recent approaches that attempt to reduce this overhead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Abdelrahman Abdelmotlb , Abdallah Taman , Sherif Mostafa , Moustafa Youssef

In this paper we investigate the problem of localizing a mobile device based on readings from its embedded sensors utilizing machine learning methodologies. We consider a real-world environment, collect a large dataset of 3110 datapoints,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-21 David Mascharka , Eric Manley

Wireless localization is essential for tracking objects in indoor environments. Internet of Things (IoT) enables localization through its diverse wireless communication protocols. In this paper, a hybrid section-based indoor localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Abouzar Ghavami , Ali Abedi

Wi-Fi fingerprinting-based indoor localization faces significant challenges in real-world deployments due to domain shifts arising from device heterogeneity and temporal variations within indoor environments. Existing approaches often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Akhil Singampalli , Danish Gufran , Sudeep Pasricha