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Landmark-assisted location and tracking in outdoor mobile network

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Modern mobile devices integrating sensors, like accelerometers and cameras, are paving the way to the definition of high-quality and accurate geolocation solutions based on the informations acquired by these sensors, and data collected and managed by GSM/3G networks. In this paper, we present a technique that provides geolocation and mobility prediction of mobile devices, mixing the location information acquired with the GSM/3G infrastructure and the results of a landmark matching achieved thanks to the camera integrated on the mobile devices. Our geolocation approach is based on an advanced Time-Forwarding algorithm and on database correlation technique over Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) data, and integrates information produced by a landmark recognition infrastructure, to enhance algorithm performances in those areas with poor signal and low accurate geolocation. Performances of the algorithm are evaluated on real data from a complex urban environment.

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  1. This comparison can be done with many different criteria [33].

  2. We represent each location as a planar circular area since it approximates well the actual shape resulting from many location techniques.

  3. Note that, this strongly depends on the density of landmarks in the area.

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  1. Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy

    Marco Anisetti, Claudio A. Ardagna, Valerio Bellandi & Ernesto Damiani

  2. University of Passau, Passau, Germany

    Mario Döller, Florian Stegmaier, Tilmann Rabl & Harald Kosch

  3. INSA Lyon, Lyon, France

    Lionel Brunie

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Anisetti, M., Ardagna, C.A., Bellandi, V. et al. Landmark-assisted location and tracking in outdoor mobile network. Multimed Tools Appl 59, 89–111 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-010-0721-x

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