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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…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Emerson Sie , Enguang Fan , Federico Cifuentes-Urtubey , Deepak Vasisht

The localization speed and accuracy in the indoor scenario can greatly impact the Quality of Experience of the user. While many individual machine learning models can achieve comparable positioning performance, their prediction mechanisms…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Lucie Klus , Darwin Quezada-Gaibor , Joaquın Torres-Sospedra , Elena Simona Lohan , Carlos Granell , Jari Nurmi

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) has been extensively researched in past years particularly with regard to range-based or visual-based sensors. Instead of deploying dedicated devices that use visual features, it is more…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Ran Liu , Sumudu Hasala Marakkalage , Madhushanka Padmal , Thiruketheeswaran Shaganan , Chau Yuen , Yong Liang Guan , U-Xuan Tan

Device-free wireless indoor localization is a key enabling technology for the Internet of Things (IoT). Fingerprint-based indoor localization techniques are a commonly used solution. This paper proposes a semi-supervised, generative…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-08-18 Kevin M. Chen , Ronald Y. Chang

Floor labels of crowdsourced RF signals are crucial for many smart-city applications, such as multi-floor indoor localization, geofencing, and robot surveillance. To build a prediction model to identify the floor number of a new RF signal…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2023-07-13 Weipeng Zhuo , Ka Ho Chiu , Jierun Chen , Ziqi Zhao , S. -H. Gary Chan , Sangtae Ha , Chul-Ho Lee

The ability to efficiently utilize crowdsourced visual data carries immense potential for the domains of large scale dynamic mapping and autonomous driving. However, state-of-the-art methods for crowdsourced 3D mapping assume prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Hemang Chawla , Matti Jukola , Terence Brouns , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

For the traditional fingerprinting-based positioning approach, it is essential to collect measurements at known locations as reference fingerprints during a training phase, which can be time-consuming and labor-intensive. This paper…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2017-05-16 Ran Liu , Chau Yuen , Tri-Nhut Do , Ye Jiang , Xiang Liu , U-Xuan Tan

Many applications require accurate indoor localization. Fingerprint-based localization methods propose a solution to this problem, but rely on a radio map that is effort-intensive to acquire. We automate the radio map acquisition phase…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-15 Arthur Gassner , Claudiu Musat , Alexandru Rusu , Andreas Burg

Representation learning has been proven to play an important role in the unprecedented success of machine learning models in numerous tasks, such as machine translation, face recognition and recommendation. The majority of existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-09-24 Wentao Wang , Guowei Xu , Wenbiao Ding , Gale Yan Huang , Guoliang Li , Jiliang Tang , Zitao Liu

Learning representation has been proven to be helpful in numerous machine learning tasks. The success of the majority of existing representation learning approaches often requires a large amount of consistent and noise-free labels. However,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Guowei Xu , Wenbiao Ding , Jiliang Tang , Songfan Yang , Gale Yan Huang , Zitao Liu

Indoor localization is a fundamental problem in location-based applications. Current approaches to this problem typically rely on Radio Frequency technology, which requires not only supporting infrastructures but human efforts to measure…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Meng-Jiun Chiou , Zhenguang Liu , Yifang Yin , Anan Liu , Roger Zimmermann

The development of highly accurate deep learning methods for indoor localization is often hindered by the unavailability of sufficient data measurements in the desired environment to perform model training. To overcome the challenge of…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-08-06 Mohamed I. AlHajri , Raed M. Shubair , Marwa Chafii

Indoor location-based services rely on the availability of sufficiently accurate positioning in indoor spaces. A popular approach to positioning relies on so-called radio maps that contain pairs of a vector of Wi-Fi signal strength…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Xiao Li , Huan Li , Harry Kai-Ho Chan , Hua Lu , Christian S. Jensen

Current state-of-the-art crowd navigation approaches are mainly deep reinforcement learning (DRL)-based. However, DRL-based methods suffer from the issues of generalization and scalability. To overcome these challenges, we propose a method…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Hafiq Anas , Ong Wee Hong , Owais Ahmed Malik

WiFi received signal strength (RSS) environment evolves over time due to movement of access points (APs), AP power adjustment, installation and removal of APs, etc. We study how to effectively update an existing database of fingerprints,…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Ka Ho Chiu , Handi Yin , Weipeng Zhuo , Chul-Ho Lee , S. -H. Gary Chan

Crowdsourcing has become a popular method for collecting labeled training data. However, in many practical scenarios traditional labeling can be difficult for crowdworkers (for example, if the data is high-dimensional or unintuitive, or the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-12-14 Tom Hope , Dafna Shahaf

We propose a novel crowd counting approach that leverages abundantly available unlabeled crowd imagery in a learning-to-rank framework. To induce a ranking of cropped images , we use the observation that any sub-image of a crowded scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-09 Xialei Liu , Joost van de Weijer , Andrew D. Bagdanov

In this paper, we analyze PAC learnability from labels produced by crowdsourcing. In our setting, unlabeled examples are drawn from a distribution and labels are crowdsourced from workers who operate under classification noise, each with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Shelby Heinecke , Lev Reyzin

This paper presents a non-cooperative source localization approach based on received signal strength (RSS) and 2D environment map, considering both line-of-sight (LOS) and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) conditions. Conventional localization…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-11 Hao Sun , Weiming Huang , Xianghao Yu , Junting Chen

Indoor localization plays a vital role in the era of the IoT and robotics, with WiFi technology being a prominent choice due to its ubiquity. We present a method for creating WiFi fingerprinting datasets to enhance indoor localization…