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Area of Science:

  • Computer Science
  • Robotics
  • Geospatial Information Science

Background:

  • Indoor localization is crucial for many applications.
  • Wi-Fi fingerprinting is a popular method due to existing infrastructure.
  • Collecting Wi-Fi radio maps is labor-intensive, hindering scalability.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose a novel visual-based approach for constructing Wi-Fi radio maps.
  • To reduce the human labor cost associated with radio map creation.
  • To enable large-scale indoor localization applications.

Main Methods:

  • Collected multi-sensor data (Wi-Fi, video, inertial) using smartphones.
  • Spatially recovered user trajectories using visual and inertial information.
  • Estimated fingerprint locations from trajectories to build the Wi-Fi radio map.

Main Results:

  • Achieved an average location error of 0.53 m for fingerprint localization.
  • The constructed radio map yielded an average localization error of 3.2 m.
  • Demonstrated comparable quality to traditional site surveying methods.

Conclusions:

  • The visual-based approach effectively constructs Wi-Fi radio maps.
  • This method significantly reduces labor costs for radio map creation.
  • The approach enhances the potential for large-scale indoor localization.