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Channel Charting aims to construct a map of the radio environment by leveraging similarity relationships found in high-dimensional channel state information. Although resulting channel charts usually accurately represent local neighborhood…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Florian Euchner , Phillip Stephan , Stephan ten Brink

Channel charting is a recently proposed framework that applies dimensionality reduction to channel state information (CSI) in wireless systems with the goal of associating a pseudo-position to each mobile user in a low-dimensional space:…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Paul Ferrand , Maxime Guillaud , Christoph Studer , Olav Tirkkonen

This paper considers the problem of ground user localization based on received signal strength (RSS) measurements obtained by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). We treat UAV-user link channel model parameters and antenna radiation pattern of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Omid Esrafilian , Rajeev Gangula , David Gesbert

Recent channel state information (CSI)-based positioning pipelines rely on deep neural networks (DNNs) in order to learn a mapping from estimated CSI to position. Since real-world communication transceivers suffer from hardware impairments,…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Emre Gönültaş , Sueda Taner , Howard Huang , Christoph Studer

With the expanding application scope of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the demand for stable UAV control has significantly increased. However, in complex environments, GPS signals are prone to interference, resulting in ineffective UAV…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Mingkun Li , Ziming Wang , Guang Huo , Wei Chen , Xiaoning Zhao

Location information is a fundamental requirement for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other wireless sensor networks (WSNs). However, accurately and efficiently localizing sensor nodes with diverse functionalities remains a significant…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Ze Zhang , Qian Dong

Recent localization frameworks exploit spatial information of complex channel measurements (CMs) to estimate accurate positions even in multipath propagation scenarios. State-of-the art CM fingerprinting(FP)-based methods employ…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-03-25 Sebastian Kram , Christopher Kraus , Tobias Feigl , Maximilian Stahlke , Jörg Robert , Christopher Mutschler

Several studies have explored deep learning algorithms to predict large-scale signal fading, or path loss, in urban communication networks. The goal is to replace costly measurement campaigns, inaccurate statistical models, or…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Fabian Jaensch , Giuseppe Caire , Begüm Demir

The objective of channel charting is to learn a virtual map of the radio environment from high-dimensional CSI that is acquired by a multi-antenna wireless system. Since, in static environments, CSI is a function of the transmitter…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-22 Florian Euchner , Phillip Stephan , Marc Gauger , Sebastian Dörner , Stephan ten Brink

Channel state information (CSI) is critical for multi-input multi-output (MIMO) orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) system. Pilot-based channel estimation methods suffer from high pilot overhead and low channel acquisition…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-11 Hongning Ruan , Zhaoyang Zhang , Zirui Chen , Ziqing Xing , Zhaohui Yang

Global localisation from visual data is a challenging problem applicable to many robotics domains. Prior works have shown that neural networks can be trained to map images of an environment to absolute camera pose within that environment,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Christopher J. Holder , Muhammad Shafique

Channel charting builds a map of the radio environment in an unsupervised way. The obtained chart locations can be seen as low-dimensional compressed versions of channel state information that can be used for a wide variety of applications,…

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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-07-02 Heng Zhang , Zhichao Zhang , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu , Shan Cao

The sensing and positioning capabilities foreseen in 6G have great potential for technology advancements in various domains, such as future smart cities and industrial use cases. Channel charting has emerged as a promising technology in…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Omid Esrafilian , Mohsen Ahadi , Florian Kaltenberger , David Gesbert

When Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) perform high-precision communication tasks, such as searching for users and providing emergency coverage, positioning errors between base stations and users make it challenging to deploy trajectory…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-18 Chiya Zhang , Ting Wang , Chunlong He

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been utilized as effective platforms for carrying Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) and cellular Base Stations (BSs), enabling low-cost, agile, and flexible wireless networks with high Quality…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Kamal Shayegan

We propose a novel method for geolocalizing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) in environments lacking Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). Current state-of-the-art techniques employ an offline-trained encoder to generate a vector…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Theo Di Piazza , Enric Meinhardt-Llopis , Gabriele Facciolo , Benedicte Bascle , Corentin Abgrall , Jean-Clement Devaux

We propose a distributed positioning algorithm to estimate the unknown positions of a number of target nodes, given distance measurements between target nodes and between target nodes and a number of reference nodes at known positions.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-04-26 Mohammad Reza Gholami , Luba Tetruashvili , Erik G. Ström , Yair Censor

Channel charting, an unsupervised learning method that learns a low-dimensional representation from channel information to preserve geometrical property of physical space of user equipments (UEs), has drawn many attentions from both…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Longhai Zhao , Yunchuan Yang , Qi Xiong , He Wang , Bin Yu , Feifei Sun , Chengjun Sun

Deep learning has been widely adopted for channel state information (CSI)-fingerprinting indoor localization systems. These systems usually consist of two main parts, i.e., a positioning network that learns the mapping from high-dimensional…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-11 Bowen Zhang , Houssem Sifaou , Geoffrey Ye Li