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In this work we present a novel end-to-end framework for tracking and classifying a robot's surroundings in complex, dynamic and only partially observable real-world environments. The approach deploys a recurrent neural network to filter an…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Peter Ondruska , Julie Dequaire , Dominic Zeng Wang , Ingmar Posner

Localizing an object accurately with respect to a robot is a key step for autonomous robotic manipulation. In this work, we propose to tackle this task knowing only 3D models of the robot and object in the particular case where the scene is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Vianney Loing , Renaud Marlet , Mathieu Aubry

In this paper, a novel framework is proposed for channel charting (CC)-aided localization in millimeter wave networks. In particular, a convolutional autoencoder model is proposed to estimate the three-dimensional location of wireless user…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Qianqian Zhang , Walid Saad

Complex image processing and computer vision systems often consist of a processing pipeline of functional modules. We intend to replace parts or all of a target pipeline with deep neural networks to achieve benefits such as increased…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-19 Kilho Son , Jesse Hostetler , Sek Chai

Fingerprint-based localization improves the positioning performance in challenging, non-line-of-sight (NLoS) dominated indoor environments. However, fingerprinting models require an expensive life-cycle management including recording and…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Maximilian Stahlke , George Yammine , Tobias Feigl , Bjoern M. Eskofier , Christopher Mutschler

Channel charting is an emerging self-supervised method that maps channel state information (CSI) to a low-dimensional latent space, which represents pseudo-positions of user equipments (UEs). While this latent space preserves local…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Sueda Taner , Victoria Palhares , Christoph Studer

Channel charting (CC) has been proposed recently to enable logical positioning of user equipments (UEs) in the neighborhood of a multi-antenna base-station solely from channel-state information (CSI). CC relies on dimensionality reduction…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-08-09 Pengzhi Huang , Oscar Castañeda , Emre Gönültaş , Saïd Medjkouh , Olav Tirkkonen , Tom Goldstein , Christoph Studer

Channel charting (CC) is a self-supervised positioning technique whose main limitation is that the estimated positions lie in an arbitrary coordinate system that is not aligned with true spatial coordinates. In this work, we propose a novel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-13 José Miguel Mateos-Ramos , Frederik Zumegen , Henk Wymeersch , Christian Häger , Christoph Studer

Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) are increasingly applied to water operations such as environmental monitoring and river-map modeling. It faces a significant challenge in achieving precise autonomous docking at ports or stations, still…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Yijie Chu , Ziniu Wu , Yong Yue , Eng Gee Lim , Paolo Paoletti , Xiaohui Zhu

The world is moving towards faster data transformation with more efficient localization of a user being the preliminary requirement. This work investigates the use of a deep learning technique for wireless localization, considering both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-02 Udita Bhattacherjee , Chethan Kumar Anjinappa , LoyCurtis Smith , Ender Ozturk , Ismail Guvenc

High-precision positioning is vital for cellular networks to support innovative applications such as extended reality, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and industrial Internet of Things (IoT) systems. Existing positioning algorithms using…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Shugong Xu , Jun Jiang , Wenjun Yu , Yilin Gao , Guangjin Pan , Shiyi Mu , Zhiqi Ai , Yuan Gao , Peigang Jiang , Cheng-Xiang Wang

Channel charting is an emerging self-supervised method that maps channel-state information (CSI) to a low-dimensional latent space (the channel chart) that represents pseudo-positions of user equipments (UEs). While channel charts preserve…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Sueda Taner , Victoria Palhares , Christoph Studer

In this paper, a multi-modal vehicle positioning framework that jointly localizes vehicles with channel state information (CSI) and images is designed. In particular, we consider an outdoor scenario where each vehicle can communicate with…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-29 Ouwen Huan , Tao Luo , Mingzhe Chen

This paper presents to the best of our knowledge the first end-to-end object tracking approach which directly maps from raw sensor input to object tracks in sensor space without requiring any feature engineering or system identification in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-03-10 Peter Ondruska , Ingmar Posner

Deep learning (DL) methods have been shown to improve the performance of several use cases for the fifth-generation (5G) New radio (NR) air interface. In this paper we investigate user equipment (UE) positioning using the channel state…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-08-29 Anastasios Foliadis , Mario H. Castañeda , Richard A. Stirling-Gallacher , Reiner S. Thomä

In this work, we investigate user equipment (UE) positioning assisted by deep learning (DL) in 5G and beyond networks. As compared to state of the art positioning algorithms used in today's networks, radio signal fingerprinting and machine…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2020-01-07 M Majid Butt , Anil Rao , Daejung Yoon

In this work we present a system identification procedure based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for human posture control models. A usual approach to the study of human posture control consists in the identification of parameters for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Vittorio Lippi , Thomas Mergner , Christoph Maurer

Global localization using onboard perception sensors, such as cameras and LiDARs, is crucial in autonomous driving and robotics applications when GPS signals are unreliable. Most approaches achieve global localization by sequential place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Sha Lu , Xuecheng Xu , Yuxuan Wu , Haojian Lu , Xieyuanli Chen , Rong Xiong , Yue Wang

User equipment (UE) positioning accuracy is of paramount importance in current and future communications standard. However, traditional methods tend to perform poorly in non line of sight (NLoS) scenarios. As a result, deep learning is a…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Baptiste Chatelier , Vincent Corlay , Cristina Ciochina , Fallou Coly , Julien Guillet

UE localization has proven its implications on multitude of use cases ranging from emergency call localization to new and emerging use cases in industrial IoT. To support plethora of use cases Radio Access Technology (RAT)-based positioning…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-07 Yuxin Zhao , Deep Shrestha