A Coarse Fingerprint-Assisted Multiple Target Indoor Device-Free Localization With Visible Light Sensing

Visible light sensing technique has shown great potential in locating human in the building. For indoor positioning using fingerprints, how to reduce the offline labor cost while maintaining accurate location estimation is of vital importance. In this paper, a novel coarse fingerprint-assisted device-free localization (DFL) approach is proposed for locating multiple targets via visible light sensing, which does not need too much calibration effort to build high accurate fingerprint database. Furthermore, a successive cancellation algorithm based on the coarse single target fingerprint database is designed to address the problem of pseudo target positioning in the multi-target DFL. Since the intersection points of shadowed links could not be guaranteed to be symmetrically located around the center of mass of the human body, the estimated location would be biased from the true location of the target. To solve this problem, a convex hull-based localization algorithm is introduced to improve positioning accuracy. Extensive simulation results show that our proposed approach exhibits superior performance in terms of target counting and localization accuracy.