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We introduce a solution for a specific case of Indoor Localization which involves a directed signal, a reflected signal from the wall and the time difference between them. This solution includes robust localization with a given wall,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Sneha Mohanty , Milan Müller , Christian Schindelhauer

This paper present our color constancy investigation in the hybridization of Wireless LAN and Camera positioning in the mobile phone. Five typical color constancy schemes are analyzed in different location environment. The results can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-06-29 Wan Mohd Yaakob Wan Bejuri , Mohd Murtadha Mohamad , Maimunah Sapri , Mohd Adly Rosly

Thermal cameras capture environmental data through heat emission, a fundamentally different mechanism compared to visible light cameras, which rely on pinhole imaging. As a result, traditional visual relocalization methods designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Yu Liu , Yangtao Meng , Xianfei Pan , Jie Jiang , Changhao Chen

Indoor self-localization is a highly demanded system function for smartphones. The current solutions based on inertial, radio frequency, and geomagnetic sensing may have degraded performance when their limiting factors take effect. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Wenjie Luo , Qun Song , Zhenyu Yan , Rui Tan , Guosheng Lin

We demonstrate a position-sensing technique that relies on the inherent sensitivity of chaos, where we illuminate a subwavelength object with a complex structured radio-frequency field generated using wave chaos and a nonlinear feedback…

Chaotic Dynamics · Physics 2015-05-30 Seth D. Cohen , Hugo L. D. de S. Cavalcante , Daniel J. Gauthier

Accurate localization can be performed in visible light systems in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios by utilizing intelligent reflecting surfaces (IRSs), which are commonly in the form of mirror arrays with adjustable orientations. When…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Issifu Iddrisu , Sinan Gezici

Visible light communication (VLC) has become a promising research topic in recent years, and finds its wide applications in indoor environments. Particularly, for location based services (LBS), visible light also provides a practical…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-18 Wenjun Gu , Mohammadreza A. Kashani , Mohsen Kavehrad

This paper presents two approaches for filter design based on stochastic distances for intensity speckle reduction. A window is defined around each pixel, overlapping samples are compared and only those which pass a goodness-of-fit test are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-21 Leonardo Torres , Alejandro C. Frery

Recently, the spectral localizer framework has emerged as an efficient approach to classifying topology in photonic systems featuring local nonlinearities and radiative environments. In nonlinear systems, this framework provides rigorous…

Optics · Physics 2024-11-27 Alexander Cerjan , Terry A. Loring

Metasurfaces enable exceptional control over the light with surface-confined planar components, offering the fascinating possibility of very dense integration and miniaturization in photonics. Here, we design, fabricate and experimentally…

As the fields of optical microscopy, semiconductor technology and fundamental science increasingly aim for precision at or below the nanoscale, there is a burgeoning demand for sub-nanometric displacement and position sensing. We show that…

Optics · Physics 2021-11-01 Morgan Facchin , Graham David Bruce , Kishan Dholakia

Speckle is maybe the most fundamental interference effect of light in disordered media, giving rise to fascinating physical phenomena and enabling applications in imaging, spectroscopy or cryptography, to name a few. While speckle formed…

Light plays a key role in the regulation of different physiological processes, through several visual and non-visual retinal phototransduction channels whose basic features are being unveiled by recent research. The growing body of evidence…

Optics · Physics 2018-11-12 Salvador Bará , Jaume Escofet

The exponential growth of IoT devices and the demand of smart devices for higher data rates has heightened the need for sharing and managing spectrum resources in cellular 5G/6G operating in licensed bands and Wi-Fi technologies operating…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-06-20 Zhuoran Su , Kaveh Pahlavan

This paper demonstrates a system comprised of infrared beacons and a camera equipped with an optical band-pass filter. Our system can reliably detect and identify individual beacons at 100m distance regardless of lighting conditions. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Alexandru Kampmann , Michael Lamberti , Nikola Petrovic , Stefan Kowalewski , Bassam Alrifaee

Weakly supervised localization aims at finding target object regions using only image-level supervision. However, localization maps extracted from classification networks are often not accurate due to the lack of fine pixel-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-13 Xiaolin Zhang , Yunchao Wei , Yi Yang

WiFi-based device localization is a key enabling technology for smart applications, which has attracted numerous research studies in the past decade. Most of the existing approaches rely on Line-of-Sight (LoS) signals to work, while a…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Yimiao Sun , Yuan He , Jiacheng Zhang , Xin Na , Yande Chen , Weiguo Wang , Xiuzhen Guo

We present a method to estimate lighting from a single image of an indoor scene. Previous work has used an environment map representation that does not account for the localized nature of indoor lighting. Instead, we represent lighting as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Marc-André Gardner , Yannick Hold-Geoffroy , Kalyan Sunkavalli , Christian Gagné , Jean-François Lalonde

Spectrometry is a general physical-analysis approach for investigating light-matter interactions. However, the complex designs of existing spectrometers render them resistant to simplification and miniaturization, both of which are vital…

Robust localization in a given map is a crucial component of most autonomous robots. In this paper, we address the problem of localizing in an indoor environment that changes and where prominent structures have no correspondence in the map…