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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…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-15 Qianwen Ye , Xiaochen Fan , Gengfa Fang , Hongxia Bie , Chaocan Xiang , Xudong Song , Xiangjian He

Indoor localization systems commonly rely on fingerprinting, which requires extensive survey efforts to obtain location-tagged signal data, limiting their real-world deployability. Recent approaches that attempt to reduce this overhead…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Abdelrahman Abdelmotlb , Abdallah Taman , Sherif Mostafa , Moustafa Youssef

Counterfactual learning to rank (CLTR) can be risky and, in various circumstances, can produce sub-optimal models that hurt performance when deployed. Safe CLTR was introduced to mitigate these risks when using inverse propensity scoring to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Shashank Gupta , Harrie Oosterhuis , Maarten de Rijke

We propose PRISM-Loc - a lightweight and robust approach for localization in large outdoor environments that combines a compact topological representation with a novel scan-matching and curb-detection module operating on raw LiDAR scans.…

While recent code-specific large language models (LLMs) have greatly enhanced their code generation capabilities, the safety of these models remains under-explored, posing potential risks as insecure code generated by these models may…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Xiangzhe Xu , Zian Su , Jinyao Guo , Kaiyuan Zhang , Zhenting Wang , Xiangyu Zhang

Images shared on social media often expose geographic cues. While early geolocation methods required expert effort and lacked generalization, the rise of Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) now enables accurate geolocation even for…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Xinyu Zhang , Yixin Wu , Boyang Zhang , Chenhao Lin , Chao Shen , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

Location privacy-preserving mechanisms (LPPMs) have been extensively studied for protecting a user's location at each time point or a sequence of locations with different timestamps (i.e., a trajectory). We argue that existing LPPMs are not…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-12-09 Yang Cao , Yonghui Xiao , Li Xiong , Liquan Bai

IP geolocation aims at locating the geographical position of Internet devices, which plays an essential role in many Internet applications. In this field, a long-standing challenge is how to find a large number of highly-reliable landmarks,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Yucheng Wang , Hongsong Zhu , Jinfa Wang , Jie Liu , Yong Wang , Limin Sun

Place Recognition enables the estimation of a globally consistent map and trajectory by providing non-local constraints in Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping (SLAM). This paper presents Locus, a novel place recognition method using 3D…

Location-based mobile social network services such as foursquare and Gowalla have grown exponentially over the past several years. These location-based services utilize the geographical position to enrich user experiences in a variety of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2011-02-22 Wenbo He , Xue Liu , Mai Ren

This paper proposes a novel positioning technique suitable for use in mobile robots in urban environments in which large global navigation satellite system (GNSS) positioning errors occur because of multipath signals. During GNSS…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Taro Suzuki

This paper introduces a new approach to localize user devices located in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) areas using a passive, non-reconfigurable, and frequency-selective metasurface called metaprism. By analyzing the spatial filtering of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-25 Marina Lotti , Giacomo Calesini , Davide Dardari

Mobile applications are being developed for automated logging of contacts via Bluetooth to help scale up digital contact tracing efforts in the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. A useful component of such applications is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-07-22 Lillian Clark , Alan Papalia , Jônata Tyska Carvalho , Luca Mastrostefano , Bhaskar Krishnamachari

To train robust deep neural networks (DNNs), we systematically study several target modification approaches, which include output regularisation, self and non-self label correction (LC). Two key issues are discovered: (1) Self LC is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-03 Xinshao Wang , Yang Hua , Elyor Kodirov , David A. Clifton , Neil M. Robertson

Accurate localization of non-cooperative signal sources in non-line-of-sight (NLoS) environments remains a critical challenge with a wide range of applications, including autonomous navigation, industrial automation, and emergency response.…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Xiucheng Wang , Qiming Zhang , Nan Cheng

Deep learning has achieved impressive results in camera localization, but current single-image techniques typically suffer from a lack of robustness, leading to large outliers. To some extent, this has been tackled by sequential…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Bing Wang , Changhao Chen , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu , Peijun Zhao , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Tomography inference attacks aim to reconstruct network topology by analyzing end-to-end probe delays. Existing defenses mitigate these attacks by manipulating probe delays to mislead inference, but rely on two strong assumptions: (i) probe…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Chengze Du , Heng Xu , Zhiwei Yu , Ying Zhou , Zili Meng , Jialong Li

This paper presents a data-driven localization framework with high precision in time-varying complex multipath environments, such as dense urban areas and indoors, where GPS and model-based localization techniques come short. We consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Farzam Hejazi , Katarina Vuckovic , Nazanin Rahnavard

Automotive mmWave radar has been widely used in the automotive industry due to its small size, low cost, and complementary advantages to optical sensors (e.g., cameras, LiDAR, etc.) in adverse weathers, e.g., fog, raining, and snowing. On…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-02-23 Pengen Gao , Shengkai Zhang , Wei Wang , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Localization in already mapped environments is a critical component in many robotics and automotive applications, where previously acquired information can be exploited along with sensor fusion to provide robust and accurate localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-09-10 Lorenzo Montano-Oliván , Julio A. Placed , Luis Montano , María T. Lázaro