Title
Where am I in the dark: Exploring active transfer learning on the use of indoor localization based on thermal imaging.
Abstract
Indoor localization is one of the key problems in robotics research. Most current localization systems use cellular base stations and Wifi signals, whose localization accuracy is largely dependent on the signal strength and is sensitive to environmental changes. With the development of camera-based technologies, image-based localization may be employed in an indoor environment where the GPS signal is weak. Most of the existing image-based localization systems are based on color images captured by cameras, but this is only feasible in environments with adequate lighting conditions. In this paper, we introduce an image-based localization system based on thermal imaging to make the system independent of light sources, which are especially useful during emergencies such as a sudden power outage in a building. As thermal images are not obtained as easily as color images, we apply active transfer learning to enrich the thermal image classification learning, where normal RGB images are treated as the source domain, and thermal images are the target domain. The application of active transfer learning avoids random target training sample selection and chooses the most informative samples in the learning process. Through the proposed active transfer learning, the query thermal images can be accurately used to indicate the location. Experiments show that our system can be efficiently deployed to perform indoor localization in a dark environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.neucom.2015.07.106
Neurocomputing
Keywords
Field
DocType
Image-based localization,Active transfer learning,Thermal imaging
Base station,Computer vision,Pattern recognition,Transfer of learning,Artificial intelligence,Localization system,RGB color model,GPS signals,Sample selection,Contextual image classification,Mathematics,Robotics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
173
P1
0925-2312
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
5
0.42
11
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Guoyu Lu1607.22
Yan Yan269131.13
Ren Li3295.57
Philip Saponaro4173.97
Nicu Sebe57013403.03
Chandra Kambhamettu685880.83