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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

Accurate indoor localization is crucial for enabling spatial context in smart environments and navigation systems. Wi-Fi Received Signal Strength (RSS) fingerprinting is a widely used indoor localization approach due to its compatibility…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Danish Gufran , Sudeep Pasricha

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

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

With expeditious development of wireless communications, location fingerprinting (LF) has nurtured considerable indoor location based services (ILBSs) in the field of Internet of Things (IoT). For most pattern-matching based LF solutions,…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-13 Luan Chen , Iness Ahriz , Didier Le Ruyet

WiFi fingerprinting is one of the mainstream technologies for indoor localization. However, it requires an initial calibration phase during which the fingerprint database is built manually. This process is labour intensive and needs to be…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Ahmed Shokry , Moustafa Elhamshary , Moustafa Youssef

Latent fingerprint enhancement is an essential pre-processing step for latent fingerprint identification. Most latent fingerprint enhancement methods try to restore corrupted gray ridges/valleys. In this paper, we propose a new method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Yanming Zhu , Xuefei Yin , Jiankun Hu

This paper proposes passive WiFi indoor localization. Instead of using WiFi signals received by mobile devices as fingerprints, we use signals received by routers to locate the mobile carrier. Consequently, software installation on the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-04 Minh Tu Hoang , Brosnan Yuen , Kai Ren , Ahmed Elmoogy , Xiaodai Dong , Tao Lu , Hung Le Nguyen Robert Westendorp , Kishore Reddy Tarimala

Among many techniques for indoor localization, fingerprinting has been shown to provide a higher accuracy compared to the alternative techniques. Fingerprinting techniques require an initial calibration phase during which site surveyors…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-06 Hamada Rizk , Moustafa Youssef

With the emerge of the Internet of Things (IoT), localization within indoor environments has become inevitable and has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years. Several efforts have been made to cope with the challenges of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-11-17 Ashkan Goharfar , Jaber Babaki , Mehdi Rasti , Pedro H. J. Nardelli

Visible light positioning (VLP) technology is a promising technique as it can provide high accuracy positioning based on the existing lighting infrastructure. However, existing approaches often require dense lighting distributions.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Weipeng Guan , Patrick Yue

Existing fingerprinting-based localization methods often require extensive data collection and struggle to generalize to new environments. In contrast to previous environment-unknown MetaLoc, we propose GenMetaLoc in this paper, which first…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-03-25 Jun Gao , Feng Yin , Wenzhong Yan , Qinglei Kong , Lexi Xu , Shuguang Cui

The increasing deployment of large antenna arrays at base stations has significantly improved the spatial resolution and localization accuracy of radio-localization methods. However, traditional signal processing techniques struggle in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-03-17 Baptiste Chatelier , Vincent Corlay , Musa Furkan Keskin , Matthieu Crussière , Henk Wymeersch , Luc Le Magoarou

This study describes a UWB and Machine Learning (ML)-based indoor positioning system. We propose a simple mathematical strategy to create data to reduce the job of measurements for fingerprint-based indoor localization systems. A…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-11 Anqi Yin , Zihuai Lin

While fingerprinting localization is favored for its effectiveness, it is hindered by high data acquisition costs and the inaccuracy of static database-based estimates. Addressing these issues, this letter presents an innovative indoor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Jiyu Jiao , Xiaojun Wang , Chenpei Han , Yuhua Huang , Yizhuo Zhang

In this work, we investigate improving the generalizability of GAN-generated image detectors by performing data augmentation in the fingerprint domain. Specifically, we first separate the fingerprints and contents of the GAN-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Huaming Wang , Jianwei Fei , Yunshu Dai , Lingyun Leng , Zhihua Xia

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

Global localization is essential for autonomous robotics, especially in indoor environments where the GPS signal is denied. We propose a novel WiFi-based localization framework that leverages ubiquitous wireless infrastructure and the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Xu Ma , Jiajie Zhang , Fujing Xie , Sören Schwertfeger

WiFi fingerprint-based indoor localization has been widely studied, but most existing approaches focus on absolute positioning and rely on dense coordinate annotations, which are costly to obtain at scale. In this paper, we study a…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-19 Tzu-Ti Wei , Po-Cheng Chen , Yu-Chee Tseng , Jen-Jee Chen

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