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Visible light communications (VLC) that use the infrastructure of the indoor illumination system have been envisioned as a compact, safe, and green alternative to WiFi for the downlink of an indoor wireless mobile communication system.…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2013-08-15 Mohammad Noshad , Maite Brandt-Pearce

We consider 3-dimensional (3D) visible light positioning (VLP) based on smartphone camera in an indoor scenario. Based on the positioning model in the quantized pixel-domain, we characterize the 3D normalized positioning error metric (NPEM)…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-05-02 Jiaojiao Xu , Nuo Huang , Chen Gong

In this paper, we propose a novel visible light communication (VLC) assisted Perspective-fourLine algorithm (V-P4L) for practical indoor localization. The basic idea of V-P4L is to joint VLC and computer vision to achieve high accuracy…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-28 Lin Bai

In this paper, we propose a multi-target image tracking algorithm based on continuously apative mean-shift (Cam-shift) and unscented Kalman filter. We improved the single-lamp tracking algorithm proposed in our previous work to multi-target…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-05-27 Linyi Huang , Wentao Yang , Shangsheng Wen , Manxi Liu , Weipeng Guan

Visible Light Communication (VLC) using light emitting diodes (LEDs) has been gaining increasing attention in recent years as it is appealing for a wide range of applications such as indoor positioning. Orthogonal frequency division…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2015-06-26 Mohammadreza Aminikashani , Wenjun Gu , Mohsen Kavehrad

Visible light communication (VLC) has become a promising research topic in recent years, and finds its wide applications in indoor environments. Particularly, for location based services (LBS), visible light also provides a practical…

Optics · Physics 2016-11-18 Wenjun Gu , Mohammadreza A. Kashani , Mohsen Kavehrad

Indoor positioning systems using visible light communication (VLC) have potential applications in smart buildings, for instance, in developing economical, easy-to-use, widely accessible positioning system based on light-emitting diodes.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2018-05-24 Giovanni Pau , Mario Collotta , Vincenzo Maniscalco , Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo

In this paper, we investigate an integrated visible light positioning and communication (VLPC) system with a single LED-lamp. First, by leveraging the fact that the VLC channel model is a function of the receiver's location, we propose a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Shuai Ma , Ruixin Yang , Bing Li , Yongyan Chen , Hang Li , Youlong Wu , Majid Safari , Shiyin Li , Naofal Al-Dhahir

Indoor localization systems based on Visible Light Communication (VLC) have shown promising advantages compared with systems based on other wireless technologies. In these systems, many VLC light-emitting diode (LED) anchors are employed in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-03-18 Duc-Phuc Nguyen , Dinh-Dung Le

Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at various image-related tasks, they encounter challenges in precisely aligning coordinates with spatial information within images, particularly in position-aware tasks such as visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Wei Tang , Yanpeng Sun , Qinying Gu , Zechao Li

Inspection systems utilizing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) equipped with thermal cameras are increasingly popular for the maintenance of photovoltaic (PV) power plants. However, automation of the inspection task is a challenging problem…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-30 Viktor Kozák , Karel Košnar , Jan Chudoba , Miroslav Kulich , Libor Přeučil

We propose an Ultra-Fast, Device-Free Visible Light Sensing and Positioning system that captures spatiotemporal variations in single-LED VLC channel responses, using ceiling-mounted photodetectors, to accurately and non-intrusively infer…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-05 Helena Serpi , Christina , Politi

Visible light communication (VLC) technology was introduced as a key enabler for the next generation of wireless networks, mainly thanks to its simple and low-cost implementation. However, several challenges prohibit the realization of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-08 Shimaa Naser , Lina Bariah , Sami Muhaidat , Mahmoud Al-Qutayri , Ernesto Damiani , Merouane Debbah , Paschalis C. Sofotasios

Vision-based localization approaches now underpin newly emerging navigation pipelines for myriad use cases from robotics to assistive technologies. Compared to sensor-based solutions, vision-based localization does not require pre-installed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-21 Anbang Yang , Mahya Beheshti , Todd E Hudson , Rajesh Vedanthan , Wachara Riewpaiboon , Pattanasak Mongkolwat , Chen Feng , John-Ross Rizzo

Visible light communication (VLC) utilizes light-emitting diodes (LEDs) to transmit wireless data. A VLC network can also be used to localize mobile users in indoor environments, where the global positioning system (GPS) signals are weak.…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-10-01 Yusuf Eroglu , Fatih Erden , Ismail Guvenc

Visible light communications (VLC) in indoor environments suffer from the limited bandwidth of LEDs as well as from the inter-symbol interference (ISI) imposed by multipath. In this work, transmission schemes to improve the performance of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Mohammad Noshad , Maite Brandt-Pearce

In view of the problems that visual simultaneous localization and mapping (VSLAM) are susceptible to environmental light interference and luminosity inconsistency, the visual simultaneous localization and mapping technology based on near…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Rui Ma , Mengfang Liu , Boliang Li , Xinghui Li

This paper presents LIPS, a Light Intensity based Positioning System for indoor environments. The system uses off-the-shelf LED lamps as signal sources, and uses light sensors as signal receivers. The design is inspired by the observation…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2014-03-11 Bo Xie , Guang Tan , Yunhuai Liu , Mingming Lu , Kongyang Chen , Tian He

Wireless communications refer to data transmissions in unguided propagation media through the use of wireless carriers such as radio frequency (RF) and visible light (VL) waves. The rising demand for high data rates, especially, in indoor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-12-17 Hisham Abuella , Mohammed Elamassie , Murat Uysal , Zhengyuan Xu , Erchin Serpedin , Khalid A. Qaraqe , Sabit Ekin

Visible Light Communication is the emerging field in the area of Indoor Optical Wireless Communication which uses white light LEDs for transmitting data and light simultaneously. LEDs can be modulated at very high speeds which increases its…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-09-19 Pranav Kumar Jha , Neha Mishra , D. Sriram Kumar