TY - GEN
T1 - Taming the inconsistency of Wi-Fi fingerprints for device-free passive indoor localization
AU - Chen, Xi
AU - Ma, Chen
AU - Allegue, Michel
AU - Liu, Xue
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PY - 2017/10/2
Y1 - 2017/10/2
N2 - Device-free Passive (DfP) indoor localization releases the users from the burden of wearing sensors or carrying smartphones. Instead of locating devices, DfP technology directly locates human bodies. This promising technology upgrades and even redefines many services, such as intruder alarm, fire rescue, fall detection, baby monitoring, etc. Using Wi-Fi based fingerprints, DfP approaches can achieve a nearly perfect accuracy with a resolution less than one meter. However, Wi-Fi localization profiles may easily drift with a minor environment change, resulting in an inconsistency between fingerprints and new profiles. This inconsistency issue could lead to large errors, and may quickly ruin the whole system. To address this issue, we propose a approach named AutoFi to automatically calibrate the localization profiles in an unsupervised manner. AutoFi embraces a new technique that online estimates and cancels profile contaminants introduced by environment changes. It applies an autoencoder to preserve critical features of fingerprints, and reproduces them later in new localization profiles. Experiment results demonstrate that AutoFi indeed rescues the Wi-Fi fingerprints from variations in the surrounding. The localization accuracy is improved from 18.8% (before auto-calibration) to 84.9% (after auto-calibration).
AB - Device-free Passive (DfP) indoor localization releases the users from the burden of wearing sensors or carrying smartphones. Instead of locating devices, DfP technology directly locates human bodies. This promising technology upgrades and even redefines many services, such as intruder alarm, fire rescue, fall detection, baby monitoring, etc. Using Wi-Fi based fingerprints, DfP approaches can achieve a nearly perfect accuracy with a resolution less than one meter. However, Wi-Fi localization profiles may easily drift with a minor environment change, resulting in an inconsistency between fingerprints and new profiles. This inconsistency issue could lead to large errors, and may quickly ruin the whole system. To address this issue, we propose a approach named AutoFi to automatically calibrate the localization profiles in an unsupervised manner. AutoFi embraces a new technique that online estimates and cancels profile contaminants introduced by environment changes. It applies an autoencoder to preserve critical features of fingerprints, and reproduces them later in new localization profiles. Experiment results demonstrate that AutoFi indeed rescues the Wi-Fi fingerprints from variations in the surrounding. The localization accuracy is improved from 18.8% (before auto-calibration) to 84.9% (after auto-calibration).
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U2 - 10.1109/INFOCOM.2017.8057185
DO - 10.1109/INFOCOM.2017.8057185
M3 - RGC 32 - Refereed conference paper (with host publication)
SN - 9781509053360
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE INFOCOM
BT - INFOCOM 2017 - IEEE Conference on Computer Communications
PB - IEEE
T2 - 2017 IEEE Conference on Computer Communications, INFOCOM 2017
Y2 - 1 May 2017 through 4 May 2017
ER -