Accurate and efficient floor localization with scalable spiking graph neural networks

Floor localization is crucial for various applications such as emergency response and rescue,indoor positioning,and recommender systems.The existing floor localization systems have many drawbacks,like low accuracy,poor scalability,and high computational costs.In this paper,we first frame the problem of floor localization as one of learning node embeddings to predict the floor label of a subgraph.Then,we introduce FloorLocator,a deep learning-based method for floor localization that integrates efficient spiking neural networks with powerful graph neural networks.This approach offers high accuracy,easy scalability to new buildings,and computational efficiency.Experimental results on using several public datasets demonstrate that FloorLocator outperforms state-of-the-art methods.Notably,in building B0,FloorLocator achieved recognition accuracy of 95.9%,exceeding state-of-the-art methods by at least 10%.In building B1,it reached an accuracy of 82.1%,surpassing the latest methods by at least 4%.These results indicate FloorLocator’s superiority in multi-floor building environment localization.

Data-driven approach to learning salience models of indoor landmarks by using genetic programming

In landmark-based way-finding,determining the most salient landmark from several candidates at decision points is challenging.To overcome this problem,current approaches usually rely on a linear model to measure the salience of landmarks.However,linear models are not always able to establish an accurate quantitative relationship between the attributes of a landmark and its perceived salience.Furthermore,the numbers of evaluated scenes and of volunteers participating in the testing of these models are often limited.With the aim of overcoming these gaps,we propose learning a non-linear salience model by means of genetic programming.We compared our proposed approach with conventional algorithms by using photographs of two hundred test scenes collected from two shopping malls.Two hundred volunteers who were not in these environments were asked to answer questionnaires about the collected photographs.The results from this experiment showed that in 76%of the cases,the most salient landmark(according to the volunteers’perception)was correctly predicted by our proposed approach.This accuracy rate is considerably higher than the ones achieved by conventional linear models.