Semi-Self Representation Learning for Crowdsourced WiFi Trajectories

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Main Authors: Kuo, Yu-Lin, Tseng, Yu-Chee, Chiang, Ting-Hui, Chen, Yan-Ann
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Published: 2025
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author Kuo, Yu-Lin
Tseng, Yu-Chee
Chiang, Ting-Hui
Chen, Yan-Ann
author_facet Kuo, Yu-Lin
Tseng, Yu-Chee
Chiang, Ting-Hui
Chen, Yan-Ann
contents WiFi fingerprint-based localization has been studied intensively. Point-based solutions rely on position annotations of WiFi fingerprints. Trajectory-based solutions, however, require end-position annotations of WiFi trajectories, where a WiFi trajectory is a multivariate time series of signal features. A trajectory dataset is much larger than a pointwise dataset as the number of potential trajectories in a field may grow exponentially with respect to the size of the field. This work presents a semi-self representation learning solution, where a large dataset $C$ of crowdsourced unlabeled WiFi trajectories can be automatically labeled by a much smaller dataset $\tilde C$ of labeled WiFi trajectories. The size of $\tilde C$ only needs to be proportional to the size of the physical field, while the unlabeled $C$ could be much larger. This is made possible through a novel ``cut-and-flip'' augmentation scheme based on the meet-in-the-middle paradigm. A two-stage learning consisting of trajectory embedding followed by endpoint embedding is proposed for the unlabeled $C$. Then the learned representations are labeled by $\tilde C$ and connected to a neural-based localization network. The result, while delivering promising accuracy, significantly relieves the burden of human annotations for trajectory-based localization.
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spellingShingle Semi-Self Representation Learning for Crowdsourced WiFi Trajectories
Kuo, Yu-Lin
Tseng, Yu-Chee
Chiang, Ting-Hui
Chen, Yan-Ann
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
WiFi fingerprint-based localization has been studied intensively. Point-based solutions rely on position annotations of WiFi fingerprints. Trajectory-based solutions, however, require end-position annotations of WiFi trajectories, where a WiFi trajectory is a multivariate time series of signal features. A trajectory dataset is much larger than a pointwise dataset as the number of potential trajectories in a field may grow exponentially with respect to the size of the field. This work presents a semi-self representation learning solution, where a large dataset $C$ of crowdsourced unlabeled WiFi trajectories can be automatically labeled by a much smaller dataset $\tilde C$ of labeled WiFi trajectories. The size of $\tilde C$ only needs to be proportional to the size of the physical field, while the unlabeled $C$ could be much larger. This is made possible through a novel ``cut-and-flip'' augmentation scheme based on the meet-in-the-middle paradigm. A two-stage learning consisting of trajectory embedding followed by endpoint embedding is proposed for the unlabeled $C$. Then the learned representations are labeled by $\tilde C$ and connected to a neural-based localization network. The result, while delivering promising accuracy, significantly relieves the burden of human annotations for trajectory-based localization.
title Semi-Self Representation Learning for Crowdsourced WiFi Trajectories
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.03756