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The availability of positional information is of great importance in many commercial, governmental, and military applications. Localization is commonly accomplished through the use of radio communication between mobile devices (agents) and…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Yuan Shen , Henk Wymeersch , Moe Z. Win

In this paper, we propose a novel indoor localization scheme that exploits ubiquitous visible lights, which are necessarily and densely deployed in almost all indoor environments. We unveil two phenomena of lights available for positioning:…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-06-03 Yiqing Hu , Yan Xiong , Wenchao Huang , Xiang-Yang Li , Yanan Zhang , Xufei Mao , Panlong Yang , Caimei Wang

Accurate localization in diverse environments is a fundamental challenge in computer vision and robotics. The task involves determining a sensor's precise position and orientation, typically a camera, within a given space. Traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Luca Di Giammarino , Boyang Sun , Giorgio Grisetti , Marc Pollefeys , Hermann Blum , Daniel Barath

This paper presents a nonlinear location estimation to infer the position of a user holding a smartphone. We consider a large location with $M$ number of grid points, each grid point is labeled with a unique fingerprint consisting of the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-04-11 Pai Chet Ng , Petros Spachos , James She , Konstantinos N. Plataniotis

The Internet of Things (IoT) has started to empower the future of many industrial and mass-market applications. Localization techniques are becoming key to add location context to IoT data without human perception and intervention.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-06 You Li , Yuan Zhuang , Xin Hu , Zhouzheng Gao , Jia Hu , Long Chen , Zhe He , Ling Pei , Kejie Chen , Maosong Wang , Xiaoji Niu , Ruizhi Chen , John Thompson , Fadhel Ghannouchi , Naser El-Sheimy

In this paper, we present a novel approach for broadcasting information based on a Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) ibeacon technology. We propose a dynamic method that uses a combination of Wi-Fi and BLE technology where every technology plays a…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-03-07 Miran Borić , Ana Fernández Vilas , Rebeca P. Díaz Redondo

Locating each node in a wireless sensor network is essential for starting the monitoring job and sending information about the area. One method that has been used in hard and inaccessible environments is randomly scattering each node in the…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Saeed Ghadiri

Despite the remarkable advances in image matching and pose estimation, image-based localization of a camera in a temporally-varying outdoor environment is still a challenging problem due to huge appearance disparity between query and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Shen Yan , Yu Liu , Long Wang , Zehong Shen , Zhen Peng , Haomin Liu , Maojun Zhang , Guofeng Zhang , Xiaowei Zhou

Accurate localization is an essential technology for the flexible navigation of robots in large-scale environments. Both SLAM-based and map-based localization will increase the computing load due to the increase in map size, which will…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Yixiao Feng , Zhou Jiang , Yongliang Shi , Yunlong Feng , Xiangyu Chen , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou

We demonstrate identification of position, material, orientation and shape of objects imaged by an $^{85}$Rb atomic magnetometer performing electromagnetic induction imaging supported by machine learning. Machine learning maximizes the…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2018-01-24 Cameron Deans , Lewis D. Griffin , Luca Marmugi , Ferruccio Renzoni

We present a novel approach to place recognition well-suited to environments with many dynamic objects--objects that may or may not be present in an agent's subsequent visits. By incorporating an object-detecting preprocessing step, our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Juan Pablo Munoz , Scott Dexter

Some important indoor localization applications, such as localizing a lost kid in a shopping mall, call for a new peer-to-peer localization technique that can localize an individual's smartphone or wearables by directly using another's…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-12-11 Xianan Zhang , Wei Wang , Xuedou Xiao , Hang Yang , Xinyu Zhang , Tao Jiang

Micro-location is the process of locating any entity with high accuracy (possibly in centimeters), while geofencing is the process of creating a virtual fence around a so-called Point of Interest (PoI). In this paper, we present an insight…

Other Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-05-26 Faheem Zafari , Ioannis Papapanagiotou , Konstantinos Christidis

In research paper "Accurate estimation of the target location of object with energy constraint & Adaptive Update Algorithms to Save Data" one of the central issues in sensor networks is track the location, of moving object which have…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2011-08-08 Vijay Bhaskar Semwal , K Susheel Kumar , Vinay S Bhaskar , Meenakshi Sati

Beacon node placement, node-to-node measurement, and target node positioning are the three key steps for a localization process. However, compared with the other two steps, beacon node placement still lacks a comprehensive, systematic study…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-03-31 Zimu Yuan , Wei Li , Zhiwei Xu , Wei Zhao

Current and future wireless applications strongly rely on precise real-time localization. A number of applications such as smart cities, Internet of Things (IoT), medical services, automotive industry, underwater exploration, public safety,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-11 Nasir Saeed , Haewoon Nam , Tareq Y. Al-Naffouri , Mohamed-Slim Alouini

We propose to use a supervised machine learning technique to track the location of a mobile agent in real time. Hidden Markov Models are used to build artificial intelligence that estimates the unknown position of a mobile target moving in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-13 Cédric Beaulac , Fabrice Larribe

In a multiuser context, the Bluetooth data from the smartphone could give an approximation of the distance between users. Meanwhile, the Wi-Fi data can be used to calculate the user's position directly. However, both the Wi-Fi-based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2018-07-17 Viet-Cuong Ta , Trung-Kien Dao , Dominique Vaufreydaz , Eric Castelli

We present a message passing algorithm for localization and tracking in multipath-prone environments that implicitly considers obstructed line-of-sight situations. The proposed adaptive probabilistic data association algorithm infers the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2021-03-26 Alexander Venus , Erik Leitinger , Stefan Tertinek , Klaus Witrisal

The paper targets the problem of human motion detection using Wireless Local Area Network devices (WiFi) equipped with pattern reconfigurable antennas. Motion sensing is obtained by monitoring the body-induced alterations of the ambient…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Marco Santoboni , Riccardo Bersan , Stefano Savazzi , Alberto Zecchin , Vittorio Rampa Daniele Piazza