Accurate Indoor Localization Using Magnetic Sequence Fingerprints with Deep Learning

Xuedong Ding, Minghua Zhu*, Bo Xiao

*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Magnetic field fingerprinting has been an interesting topic in indoor localization researches because of its advantages of being ubiquitous, energy-efficient and infrastructure-free. Most existing indoor magnetic field-based positioning methods use the raw three-dimensional magnetic field strength obtained by the magnetic sensor built in smartphones. However, they have to overcome the problem of ambiguity that originates from the nature of geomagnetic data, especially in the large-scale environment. In this paper, we first expand the dimension of magnetic data elements, and a sliding window mechanism is designed to construct magnetic sequence fingerprints to increase the distinguishability of magnetic field fingerprints. Moreover, an accurate indoor positioning model combining the advantages of one-dimensional convolutional neural network and long short-term memory network is designed to automatically learn the mapping between ground-truth positions and magnetic sequence fingerprints. To demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method, we perform a comprehensive experimental evaluation on three real-world datasets, and the results show that the proposed approach can remarkably improve positioning performance compared with other methods.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAlgorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing - 21st International Conference, ICA3PP 2021, Proceedings
EditorsYongxuan Lai, Tian Wang, Min Jiang, Guangquan Xu, Wei Liang, Aniello Castiglione
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages65-84
Number of pages20
ISBN (Print)9783030953836
DOIs
StatePublished - 2022
Event21st International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2021 - Virtual, Online
Duration: 3 Dec 20215 Dec 2021

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume13155 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference21st International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, ICA3PP 2021
CityVirtual, Online
Period3/12/215/12/21

Keywords

  • Deep learning
  • Indoor localization
  • Magnetic field
  • Magnetic sequence fingerprints
  • Smartphone

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