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  • Geomatics Engineering
  • Internet of Things (IoT)

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  • Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) performance degrades in urban canyons.
  • Smart city development increases the availability of Building Information Modeling (BIM).
  • Accurate outdoor localization is crucial for emerging IoT applications.

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  • To present a novel semantic Visual Positioning System (VPS) for accurate outdoor localization.
  • To address the limitations of GNSS in deep urban canyons.
  • To improve position and orientation estimation using BIM and computer vision.

Main Methods:

  • Offline stage: Material-segmented BIM used to generate segmented reference images.
  • Online stage: Smartphone images segmented using computer vision algorithms.
  • Semantic VPS matches segmented images to estimate position (latitude, longitude, altitude) and orientation (yaw, pitch, roll).

Main Results:

  • Achieved positioning accuracy of 2.0 m (high-rise), 5.5 m (foliage), and 15.7 m (alleyway).
  • Demonstrated a 45% improvement in positioning accuracy over state-of-the-art methods.
  • Obtained yaw estimation accuracy of 2.3°, an eight-fold improvement over smartphone IMU.

Conclusions:

  • The semantic VPS offers accurate and robust localization in challenging urban environments.
  • This method significantly enhances positioning capabilities where GNSS is unreliable.
  • The system provides a viable solution for precise navigation in smart city IoT applications.