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Indoor localization opens the path to potentially transformative applications. Although many indoor localization methods have been proposed over the years, they remain too impractical for widespread deployment in the real world. In this…
We propose UnLoc, an efficient data-driven solution for sequential camera localization within floorplans. Floorplan data is readily available, long-term persistent, and robust to changes in visual appearance. We address key limitations of…
Indoor location identification and navigation need to be as simple, seamless, and ubiquitous as its outdoor GPS-based counterpart is. It would be of great convenience to the mobile user to be able to continue navigating seamlessly as he or…
The past years have witnessed increasing research interest in achieving passive human localization with commodity WiFi devices. However, due to the fundamental limited spatial resolution of WiFi signals, it is still very difficult to…
This letter investigates an uplink pilot-based wireless indoor localization problem in a multipath environment for a single-input single-output (SISO) narrowband communication system aided by reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). The…
Wireless ray-tracing (RT) is emerging as a key tool for three-dimensional (3D) wireless channel modeling, driven by advances in graphical rendering. Current approaches struggle to accurately model beyond 5G (B5G) network signaling, which…
We study the problem of indoor localization using commodity WiFi channel state information (CSI) measurements. The accuracy of methods developed to address this problem is limited by the overall bandwidth used by the WiFi device as well as…
A main challenge in target localization arises from the lack of reliable distance measures. This issue is especially pronounced in indoor settings due to the presence of walls, floors, furniture, and other dynamically changing conditions…
Passive indoor localization, integral to smart buildings, emergency response, and indoor navigation, has traditionally been limited by a focus on single-target localization and reliance on multi-packet CSI. We introduce a novel Multi-target…
Radio channel state information (CSI) measured with many receivers is a good resource for localizing a transmit device with machine learning with a discriminative model. However, CSI localization is nontrivial when the radio map is…
Current scene depth estimation approaches mainly rely on optical sensing, which carries privacy concerns and suffers from estimation ambiguity for distant, shiny, and transparent surfaces/objects. Reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RISs)…
With the rapid increase in mobile subscribers, there is a drive towards achieving higher data rates, prompting the use of higher frequencies in future wireless communication technologies. Wave propagation channel modeling for these…
This paper presents the development and evaluation of WiThRay, a new wireless three-dimensional ray-tracing (RT) simulator. RT-based simulators are widely used for generating realistic channel data by combining RT methodology to get signal…
Recent years have witnessed fast growth in outdoor location-based services. While GPS is considered a ubiquitous localization system, it is not supported by low-end phones, requires direct line of sight to the satellites, and can drain the…
Many online services rely on self-reported locations of user devices like smartphones. To mitigate harm from falsified self-reported locations, the literature has proposed location proof services (LPSs), which provide proof of a device's…
The cellular wireless networks are evolving towards acquiring newer capabilities, such as sensing, which will support novel use cases and applications. Many of these require indoor sensing capabilities, which can be realized by exploiting…
Mobile device localization in wireless sensor networks is a challenging task. It has already been addressed when the WiFI propagation maps of the access points are modeled deterministically. However, this procedure does not take into…
The integration of Optical Intelligent Reflective Surfaces (OIRSs) into Visible Light Communication (VLC) systems is gaining momentum as a valid alternative to RF technologies, harnessing the existing lighting infrastructures and the vast…
In this paper, we present the first indoor light-based detection and localization system that builds on concepts from radio detection and ranging (radar) making use of the expected growth in the use and adoption of visible light…
Numerous indoor localization techniques have been proposed recently to meet the intensive demand for location based service, and Wi-Fi fingerprint-based approaches are the most popular and inexpensive solutions. Among them, one of the main…