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Enhancing 3D and Z-axis positioning accuracy is crucial for effective rescue in indoor emergencies, ensuring safety for emergency responders and at-risk individuals. Additionally, reducing the dependence of a positioning system on fixed…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-01-15 Gaurav Duggal , R. Michael Buehrer , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey H. Reed

This paper tackles the challenge of accurate positioning in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) environments, with a focus on indoor public safety scenarios where NLoS bias severely impacts localization performance. We explore Diffraction MultiPath…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-05 Gaurav Duggal , Anand M. Kumar , R. Michael Buehrer , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Nishith Tripathi , Jeffrey H. Reed

We present a novel sound localization algorithm for a non-line-of-sight (NLOS) sound source in indoor environments. Our approach exploits the diffraction properties of sound waves as they bend around a barrier or an obstacle in the scene.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-21 Inkyu An , Doheon Lee , Jung-woo Choi , Dinesh Manocha , Sung-eui Yoon

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

Time-of-arrival (TOA)-based localization in mixed line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments is challenging because conventional Euclidean range models do not capture diffraction-dominated propagation. We show that the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-30 Gaurav Duggal , Richard M. Buehrer , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey H. Reed

The millimeter-wave (mmWave)-based Wi-Fi sensing technology has recently attracted extensive attention since it provides a possibility to realize higher sensing accuracy. However, current works mainly concentrate on sensing scenarios where…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Shiwen He , Kangli Cai , Shiyue Huang , Zhenyu Anz , Wei Huang , Ning Gao

The accuracy of traditional localization methods significantly degrades when the direct path between the wireless transmitter and the target is blocked or non-penetrable. This paper proposes N2LoS, a novel approach for precise…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-05-14 Zhenguo Shi , Yihe Yan , Yanxiang Wang , Wen Hu , Chun Tung Chou

We develop a unified Fisher-information framework for localization in environments with both Line-of-Sight (LOS) and Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) paths, focusing on diffraction-dominated NLOS propagation characteristic of Outdoor-to-Indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-02 Gaurav Duggal , R. Michael Buehrer , Harpreet S. Dhillon , Jeffrey H. Reed

Non-line-of-sight (NLOS) imaging is based on capturing the multi-bounce indirect reflections from the hidden objects. Active NLOS imaging systems rely on the capture of the time of flight of light through the scene, and have shown great…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-19 Jiayong Peng , Fangzhou Mu , Ji Hyun Nam , Siddeshwar Raghavan , Yin Li , Andreas Velten , Zhiwei Xiong

Accurate outdoor localization in Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) environments remains a critical challenge for wireless communication and sensing systems. Existing methods, including positioning based on the Global Navigation Satellite System…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-11 Jiajie Xu , Yifan Guo , Xiucheng Wang , Nan Cheng , Tingting Yang

The challenging problem of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) localization is critical for many wireless networking applications. The lack of available datasets has made NLOS localization difficult to tackle with ML-driven methods, but recent…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Rafayel Darbinyan , Hrant Khachatrian , Rafayel Mkrtchyan , Theofanis P. Raptis

The presence of Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) blind spots resulting from roadside parking in urban environments poses a significant challenge to road safety, particularly due to the sudden emergence of pedestrians. mmWave technology leverages…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Hee-Yeun Kim , Byeonggyu Park , Byonghyok Choi , Hansang Cho , Byungkwan Kim , Soomok Lee , Mingu Jeon , Seung-Woo Seo , Seong-Woo Kim

An unknown-position sensor can be localized if there are three or more anchors making time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements of a signal from it. However, the location errors can be very large due to the fact that some of the measurements are…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2016-11-17 Hongyang Chen , Kenneth W. K. Lui , Zizhuo Wang , H. C. So , H. Vincent Poor

Time-based indoor positioning techniques rely on multiple access points (APs) and measurements between the user equipment (UE) and the APs. In dense indoor environments, occlusion-induced non-line-of-sight (NLoS) propagation introduces…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-20 Neetu R. R , Shrihari Vasudevan , Ranjani H. G

We propose an indoor localization algorithm for visible light systems by considering effects of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation. The proposed algorithm, named database assisted nonlinear least squares (DA-NLS), utilizes ideas from both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-11 Ahmet Faruk Saz , Sinan Gezici

In this paper, we propose a 3D LiDAR aided global navigation satellite system (GNSS) non-line-of-sight (NLOS) mitigation method caused by both static buildings and dynamic objects. A sliding window map describing the surrounding of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-12-14 Weisong Wen , Li-Ta Hsu

Localization of robots is vital for navigation and path planning, such as in cases where a map of the environment is needed. Ultra-Wideband (UWB) for indoor location systems has been gaining popularity over the years with the introduction…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Muhammad Shalihan , Ran Liu , Chau Yuen

Propagation in non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions is one of the major impairments in ultrawideband (UWB) wireless localization systems based on time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements. In this paper the problem of the joint statistical…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2012-03-14 Francesco Montorsi , Fabrizio Pancaldi , Giorgio M. Vitetta

In the past few decades, the localization literature has seen many models attempting to characterize the non-line-of-sight (NLOS) bias error commonly experienced in range measurements. These models have either been based on specific…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Christopher E. O'Lone , Harpreet S. Dhillon , R. Michael Buehrer

Non-Line-of-Sight (NLoS) propagation condition is a crucial factor affecting the precision of the localization in the Ultra-Wideband (UWB) Indoor Positioning System (IPS). Numerous supervised Machine Learning (ML) approaches have been…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-04-24 Fuhu Che , Qasim Zeeshan Ahmed , Jaron Fontaine , Ben Van Herbruggen , Adnan Shahid , Eli De Poorter , Pavlos I. Lazaridis
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