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Estimating vehicles' locations is one of the key components in intelligent traffic management systems (ITMSs) for increasing traffic scene awareness. Traditionally, stationary sensors have been employed in this regard. The development of…
Localization in indoor environments is essential to further support automation in a wide array of scenarios. Moreover, direction-of-arrival knowledge is essential to supporting high speed millimeter-wave (mmWave) links in indoor…
Tracking locations is practical and speditive with smartphones, as they are omnipresent devices, relatively cheap, and have the necessary sensors for positioning and networking integrated in the same box. Nowadays recent models have GNSS…
The limited or no protection for civilian Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) signals makes spoofing attacks relatively easy. With modern mobile devices often featuring network interfaces, state-of-the-art signals of opportunity (SOP)…
We propose a novel external indoor positioning system that computes the position and orientation of multiple model-scale vehicles. For this purpose, we use a camera mounted at a height of 3.3m and LEDs attached to each vehicle. We reach an…
Optical camera communication (OCC) exhibits considerable importance nowadays in various indoor camera based services such as smart home and robot-based automation. An android smart phone camera that is mounted on a mobile robot (MR) offers…
Multi-point vehicular positioning is one essential operation for autonomous vehicles. However, the state-of-the-art positioning technologies, relying on reflected signals from a target (i.e., RADAR and LIDAR), cannot work without…
Camera-based visible light positioning (VLP) has emerged as a promising indoor positioning technique. However, the need for dedicated luminaire infrastructure and on-target cameras in existing algorithms may limit their scalability and…
The fifth-generation (5G) of mobile communication supported by millimetre-wave (mmWave) technology and higher base station (BS) densification facilitate to enhance user equipment (UE) positioning. Therefore, 5G cellular system is designed…
Precise localization is of great importance for autonomous parking task since it provides service for the downstream planning and control modules, which significantly affects the system performance. For parking scenarios, dynamic lighting,…
Many applications require positioning. Time of Flight (ToF) methods calculate distances by measuring the propagation time of signals. We present a novel ToF localization method. Our new approach works infrastructure-less, without…
Nowadays, two-dimensional (2D) barcodes have been widely used in various domains. And a series of aesthetic 2D barcode schemes have been proposed to improve the visual quality and readability of 2D barcodes for better integration with…
Merging short-exposure frames can provide an image with reduced noise in low light conditions. However, how best to align images before merging is an open problem. To improve the performance of alignment, we propose an inertia-sensor aided…
In this paper, we present a geometric framework for the passive localisation of static emitters. The objective is to localise the position of the emitters in a given area by centralised coordination of mobile passive sensors. This framework…
Devices that detect angle-of-arrival (AoA) over a wide field of view are crucial for various applications such as wireless communication and navigation. They are often installed on platforms with challenging mechanical and stealth…
Accurate localization and 3D maps are increasingly needed for various artificial intelligence based IoT applications such as augmented reality, intelligent transportation, crowd monitoring, robotics, etc. This article proposes a novel…
The desire for cameras with smaller form factors has recently lead to a push for exploring computational imaging systems with reduced optical complexity such as a smaller number of lens elements. Unfortunately such simplified optical…
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…
With the growing integration of location based services (LBS) such as GPS in mobile devices, indoor position systems (IPS) have become an important role for research. There are several IPS methods such as AOA, TOA, TDOA, which use…
On the off-the-shelf navigational assistance devices, the localization precision is limited to the signal error of global navigation satellite system (GNSS). During travelling outdoors, the inaccurately localization perplexes visually…