Multi-Sensor Fusion for Indoor Localization

Dear Colleagues,

The first iPhone was released over a decade ago, triggering the smart-device revolution and placing powerful communication, computing, and sensing devices in our hands. Leveraging the multi-dimensional capabilities of smart devices has paved the way for a new generation of highly personalized and context-aware services. A fundamental building block, indoor localization has emerged as a major scientific and technological challenge. The solution space has grown richer over time, to include a variety of underlying sensor technologies – RF, IMU, acoustic, etc. – as mobile computing devices have evolved to include smartphones, tablets, RFID tags, wearables, and even micro-implants.

This Special Issue will bring together the latest research that leverages the multitude of sensors to address indoor localization challenges across the universe of smart devices and objects. This includes automatic indoor mapping, positioning, navigation, and tracking. There will be an emphasis on articles that introducing novel ideas and algorithms coupled with clever engineering using real-life prototype implementations and evaluations.

Topics of interests include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Sensor fusion algorithms and implementations
• Applications of machine learning to indoor localization
• Localization and Internet of Things
• Emerging localization and sensor-based applications
• Emerging sensors for indoor localization
• 3D localization
• Localization of battery-free devices
• In-body localization

Prof. Dr. Gentian Jakllari
Dr. Nathalie Mitton
Guest Editors

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