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Enhanced indoor localization through crowd sensing

  • University of Seville
  • University of Bologna
  • Northeastern University

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Abstract

In localization tasks, one typically assumes a statistical model of the observations, where the model quantifies the observations by exploiting interrelationships based on geometry. These models might incorporate unknown parameters that, in general, are functions of space. In this article, we propose a crowd sensing method for estimating a spatial field of a quantity (e.g., ranging biases due to line-of-sight/non-line-of-sight or path-loss parameter) allowing for improved indoor localization. Our method takes advantage of the information provided by various users that navigate the area of interest. The proposed learning approach is based on Gaussian processes and its computational cost does not increase with the number of measurements. We present numerical results that show how the proposed method estimates a spatial field of biases and how these estimates lead to much improved performance in estimation of user positions.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - Proceedings
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages2487-2491
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781509041176
DOIs
StatePublished - Jun 16 2017
Event2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017 - New Orleans, United States
Duration: Mar 5 2017Mar 9 2017

Publication series

NameICASSP, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing - Proceedings
ISSN (Print)1520-6149

Conference

Conference2017 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, ICASSP 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityNew Orleans
Period03/5/1703/9/17

Keywords

  • biases
  • crowd sourcing
  • Gaussian processes
  • indoor localization
  • spatial field

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