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Ultra-wideband (UWB)-based techniques, while becoming mainstream approaches for high-accurate positioning, tend to be challenged by ranging bias in harsh environments. The emerging learning-based methods for error mitigation have shown…
Wearable and IoT devices requiring positioning and localisation services grow in number exponentially every year. This rapid growth also produces millions of data entries that need to be pre-processed prior to being used in any indoor…
Deep neural networks (DNNs) are poorly calibrated when trained in conventional ways. To improve confidence calibration of DNNs, we propose a novel training method, distance-based learning from errors (DBLE). DBLE bases its confidence…
In this work, we propose a step towards a more accurate prediction of the environment light given a single picture of a known object. To achieve this, we developed a deep learning method that is able to encode the latent space of indoor…
Ultra-wideband (UWB) wireless technology has seen an increased penetration in the robotics field as a robust localization method in recent years. UWB enables high accuracy distance estimation from time-of-flight measurements of wireless…
Existing Location-based social networks (LBSNs), e.g., Foursquare, depend mainly on GPS or cellular-based localization to infer users' locations. However, GPS is unavailable indoors and cellular-based localization provides coarse-grained…
Ultra-wideband (UWB) devices are widely used in indoor localization scenarios. Single-anchor UWB localization shows advantages because of its simple system setup compared to conventional two-way ranging (TWR) and trilateration localization…
With the unprecedented demand for location-based services in indoor scenarios, wireless indoor localization has become essential for mobile users. While GPS is not available at indoor spaces, WiFi RSS fingerprinting has become popular with…
Currently there is no standard indoor positioning system, similar to outdoor GPS. However, WiFi signals have been used in a large number of proposals to achieve the above positioning, many of which use machine learning to do so. But what…
In recent years, with the prevalence of social media and smart devices, people causally reveal their locations such as shops, hotels, and restaurants in their tweets. Recognizing and linking such fine-grained location mentions to…
Mobile autonomous systems, robots, and cyber-physical systems rely on accurate positioning information. To conduct distance-measurement, two devices exchange signals and, knowing these signals propagate at the speed of light, the time of…
Navigation in an unknown environment without any preexisting positioning infrastructure has always been hard for mobile robots. This paper presents a self-deployable ultra wideband UWB infrastructure by mobile agents, that permits a dynamic…
The location of broken insulators in aerial images is a challenging task. This paper, focusing on the self-blast glass insulator, proposes a deep learning solution. We address the broken insulators location problem as a low…
This paper studies image-based geo-localization (IBL) problem using ground-to-aerial cross-view matching. The goal is to predict the spatial location of a ground-level query image by matching it to a large geotagged aerial image database…
In this work, an existing deep neural network approach for determining a robot's pose from visual information (RGB images) is modified, improving its localization performance without impacting its ease of training. Explicitly, the network's…
Wireless localization for mobile device has attracted more and more interests by increasing the demand for location based services. Fingerprint-based localization is promising, especially in non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) or rich scattering…
In this paper, we introduce an uplink optical wireless positioning system for indoor applications. This technique uses fingerprints based on the indoor optical wireless channel impulse response for localization. Exploiting the line of sight…
It is essential that a robot has the ability to determine its position and orientation to execute tasks autonomously. Heading estimation is especially challenging in indoor environments where magnetic distortions make magnetometer-based…
Robots often use feature-based image tracking to identify their position in their surrounding environment; however, feature-based image tracking is prone to errors in low-textured and poorly lit environments. Specifically, we investigate a…
Among many techniques for indoor localization, fingerprinting has been shown to provide a higher accuracy compared to the alternative techniques. Fingerprinting techniques require an initial calibration phase during which site surveyors…