Generating Light-based Fingerprints for Indoor Localization

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Hauptverfasser: Lee, Hsun-Yu, Lin, Jie, Wu, Fang-Jing
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author Lee, Hsun-Yu
Lin, Jie
Wu, Fang-Jing
author_facet Lee, Hsun-Yu
Lin, Jie
Wu, Fang-Jing
contents Accurate indoor localization underpins applications ranging from wayfinding and emergency response to asset tracking and smart-building services. Radio-frequency solutions (e.g. Wi-Fi, RFID, UWB) are widely adopted but remain vulnerable to multipath fading, interference, and uncontrollable coverage variation. We explore an orthogonal modality -- visible light communication (VLC) -- and demonstrate that the spectral signatures captured by a low-cost AS7341 sensor can serve as robust location fingerprints. We introduce a two-stage framework that (i) trains a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) on real spectral measurements and (ii) enlarges the training corpus with synthetic samples produced by TabGAN. The augmented dataset reduces the mean localization error from 62.9cm to 49.3cm -- a 20% improvement -- while requiring only 5% additional data-collection effort. Experimental results obtained on 42 reference points in a U-shaped laboratory confirm that GAN-based augmentation mitigates data-scarcity issues and enhances generalization.
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spellingShingle Generating Light-based Fingerprints for Indoor Localization
Lee, Hsun-Yu
Lin, Jie
Wu, Fang-Jing
Signal Processing
Robotics
I.2.9; C.3
Accurate indoor localization underpins applications ranging from wayfinding and emergency response to asset tracking and smart-building services. Radio-frequency solutions (e.g. Wi-Fi, RFID, UWB) are widely adopted but remain vulnerable to multipath fading, interference, and uncontrollable coverage variation. We explore an orthogonal modality -- visible light communication (VLC) -- and demonstrate that the spectral signatures captured by a low-cost AS7341 sensor can serve as robust location fingerprints. We introduce a two-stage framework that (i) trains a multi-layer perceptron (MLP) on real spectral measurements and (ii) enlarges the training corpus with synthetic samples produced by TabGAN. The augmented dataset reduces the mean localization error from 62.9cm to 49.3cm -- a 20% improvement -- while requiring only 5% additional data-collection effort. Experimental results obtained on 42 reference points in a U-shaped laboratory confirm that GAN-based augmentation mitigates data-scarcity issues and enhances generalization.
title Generating Light-based Fingerprints for Indoor Localization
topic Signal Processing
Robotics
I.2.9; C.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.03011