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Traditional fingerprint based localization techniques mainly rely on infrastructure support such as RFID, Wi-Fi or GPS. They operate by war-driving the entire space which is both time-consuming and labor-intensive. In this paper, we present…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2020-03-25 Haibo Ye , Tao Gu , Xianping Tao , Jian Lu

Crowd-sourcing has become a promising way to build} a feature-based indoor positioning system that has lower labour and time costs. It can make full use of the widely deployed infrastructure as well as built-in sensors on mobile devices.…

Applications · Statistics 2021-03-23 Caifa Zhou , Zhi Li , Dandan Zeng , Yongliang Wang

Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) traditionally rely on odometry and building infrastructures like WiFi, often supplemented by building floor plans for increased accuracy. However, the limitation of floor plans in terms of availability and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Zhaoguang Yi , Xiangyu Wen , Qiyue Xia , Peize Li , Francisco Zampella , Firas Alsehly , Chris Xiaoxuan Lu

Location is key to spatialize internet-of-things (IoT) data. However, it is challenging to use low-cost IoT devices for robust unsupervised localization (i.e., localization without training data that have known location labels). Thus, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-10 You Li , Xin Hu , Yuan Zhuang , Zhouzheng Gao , Peng Zhang , Naser El-Sheimy

In this work, we argue that current state-of-the-art methods of aircraft localization such as multilateration are insufficient, in particular for modern crowdsourced air traffic networks with random, unplanned deployment geometry. We…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Martin Strohmeier , Vincent Lenders , Ivan Martinovic

Device-free localization (DFL) based on the received signal strength (RSS) measurements of radio frequency (RF)links is the method using RSS variation due to the presence of the target to localize the target without attaching any device.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2015-05-14 Zhenghuan Wang , Heng Liu , Shengxin Xu , Xiangyuan Bu , Jianping An

Wi-Fi-based positioning promises a scalable and privacy-preserving solution for location-based services in indoor environments such as malls, airports, and campuses. RSS-based methods are widely deployable as RSS data is available on all…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-30 Abdulkadir Bilge , Erdem Ergen , Burak Soner , Sinem Coleri

Induced magnetic field (IMF)-based localization offers a robust alternative to wave-based positioning technologies due to its resilience to non-line-of-sight conditions, environmental dynamics, and wireless interference. However, existing…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-03 Qiushi Guo , Matthias Tschoepe , Mengxi Liu , Sizhen Bian , Paul Lukowicz

RSS-based device-free localization (DFL) monitors changes in the received signal strength (RSS) measured by a network of static wireless nodes to locate people without requiring them to carry or wear any electronic device. Current models…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2013-02-26 Ossi Kaltiokallio , Maurizio Bocca , Neal Patwari

The localization technology is important for the development of indoor location-based services (LBS). The radio frequency (RF) fingerprint-based localization is one of the most promising approaches. However, it is challenging to apply this…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2017-12-06 Yu Zhang , Xiao-Yang Liu

Fingerprint localization has gained significant attention due to its cost-effective deployment, low complexity, and high efficacy. However, traditional methods, while effective for static data, often struggle in dynamic environments where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-12 Jiyu Jiao , Xiaojun Wang , Chengpei Han

Indoor position technology has become one of the research highlights in the Internet of Things (IoT), but there is still a lack of universal, low-cost, and high-precision solutions. This paper conducts research on indoor position technology…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Chunyi Zhang , Zongwei Li , Xiaoqi Li

Inferring the location of a mobile device in an indoor setting is an open problem of utmost significance. A leading approach that does not require the deployment of expensive infrastructure is fingerprinting, where a classifier is trained…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-02-08 Erez Peterfreund , Ioannis G. Kevrekidis , Ariel Jaffe

Indoor localization systems are most commonly based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) measurements of either WiFi or Bluetooth-Low-Energy (BLE) beacons. In such systems, the two most common techniques are trilateration and…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-06-17 Ramdoot Pydipaty , Johnu George , Krishna Selvaraju , Amit Saha

Fingerprinting is a popular indoor localization technique since it can utilize existing infrastructures (e.g., access points). However, its site survey process is a labor-intensive and time-consuming task, which limits the application of…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-09-09 Fuqiang Gu , Milad Ramezani , Kourosh Khoshelham , Xiaoping Zheng , Ruiqin Zhou , Jianga Shang

With the recent development in mobile computing devices and as the ubiquitous deployment of access points(APs) of Wireless Local Area Networks(WLANs), WLAN based indoor localization systems(WILSs) are of mounting concentration and are…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-13 Caifa Zhou , Lin Ma , Xuezhi Tan

Many infrastructure-free indoor positioning systems rely on fine-grained location-dependent fingerprints to train models for localization. The site survey process to collect fingerprints is laborious and is considered one of the major…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-23 Chenhe Li , Qiang Xu , Zhe Gong , Rong Zheng

Wireless indoor localization using predictive models with received signal strength information (RSSI) requires proper calibration for reliable position estimates. One remedy is to employ synthetic labels produced by a (generally different)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Seonghoon Yoo , Houssem Sifaou , Sangwoo Park , Joonhyuk Kang , Osvaldo Simeone

With the rapid development of indoor location-based services (LBSs), the demand for accurate localization keeps growing as well. To meet this demand, we propose an indoor localization algorithm based on graph convolutional network (GCN). We…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-04-22 Yanzan Sun , Qinggang Xie , Guangjin Pan , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu

With the growing integration of location based services (LBS) such as GPS in mobile devices, indoor position systems (IPS) have become an important role for research. There are several IPS methods such as AOA, TOA, TDOA, which use…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Erick Schmidt , David Akopian