Indoor Localization with a Signal Tree

Abstract

Indoor localization based on image matching faces the challenges of clustering large amounts of images to build a reference database, costly query when the database is large and indistinctive image features in buildings with unified decoration style. We propose a novel indoor localization algorithm using smartphones where WiFi, orientation and visual signals are fused together to improve the localization performance. The reference database is built as a signal tree with less computational cost as WiFi and orientation signals pre-cluster the reference images. During localization, WiFi and orientation signals not only offer more context information, but also prune impossible reference images, improving the accuracy and efficiency of image matching. In addition, images are described by multiple-level descriptors recording both global and local image information. The proposed method is compared with other methods in terms of localization accuracy, localization efficiency and time cost to build the reference database. Experimental results on four large university buildings show that our algorithm is efficient and accurate for indoor localization.

Meeting Name

18th International Conference on Information Fusion (2015: Jul. 6-9, Washington, DC)

Department(s)

Computer Science

Keywords and Phrases

College Buildings; Database Systems; Efficiency; Image Matching; Image Recording; Information Fusion; Query Processing; Trees (Mathematics); Computational Costs; Context Information; Image Information; Indoor Localization; Localization Accuracy; Localization Performance; Multiple Levels; Reference Database; Indoor Positioning Systems

International Standard Book Number (ISBN)

978-098244386-6

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

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Citation

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text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2015 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Sep 2015

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