Several location-based services require accurate location information in indoor environments. Recently, it has been shown that deep neural network (DNN) based received signal strength indicator (RSSI) fingerprints achieve high localization performance with low online complexity. However, such methods require a very large amount of training data, in order to properly design and optimize the DNN model, which makes the data collection very costly. In this paper, we propose generative adversarial networks for RSSI data augmentation which generate fake RSSI data based on a small set of real collected labeled data. The developed model utilizes semi-supervised learning in order to predict the pseudo-labels of the generated RSSIs. A proper selection of the generated data is proposed in order to cover the entire considered indoor environment, and to reduce the data generation error by only selecting the most realistic fake RSSIs. Extensive numerical experiments show that the proposed data augmentation and selection scheme leads to a localization accuracy improvement of 21.69% for simulated data and 15.36% for experimental data.INDEX TERMS Indoor localization, received signal strength indicator (RSSI), deep neural network (DNN), generative adversarial network (GAN), semi-supervised learning.

Currently, indoor localization is among the most challenging issues related to the Internet of Things (IoT). Most of the state-of-the-art indoor localization solutions require a high computational complexity to achieve a satisfying localization accuracy and do not meet the memory limitations of IoT devices. In this paper, we develop a localization framework that shifts the online prediction complexity to an offline preprocessing step, based on Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN). Motivated by the outstanding performance of such networks in the image classification field, the indoor localization problem is formulated as 3D radio image-based region recognition. It aims to localize a sensor node accurately by determining its location region. 3D radio images are constructed based on Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) fingerprints. The simulation results justify the choice of the different parameters, optimization algorithms, and model architectures used. Considering the trade-off between localization accuracy and computational complexity, our proposed method outperforms other popular approaches.

Indoor localization techniques based on supervised learning deliver great performance accuracy while maintaining low online complexity. However, such systems require massive amounts of data for offline training, which necessitates costly measurements. The essence of this paper is twofold with the purpose of providing solutions to missing data of different nature: available unlabeled data and missing unlabeled data. In both cases, we rely on a few labeled available data, which is costly yet insufficient to achieve a high localization accuracy. To address the problem of available unlabeled data, a weighted semisupervised DNN-based indoor localization approach leveraging pseudo-labeling methods in combination with real labeled samples and inexpensive pseudo-labeled samples is proposed in order to boost localization accuracy, while overcoming the high cost of collecting additional labeled data. As for the extreme case of unavailable unlabeled data, we propose an alternative localization system generating fake fingerprints based on generative adversarial networks (GANs) named 'Weighted GAN based indoor localization'. Furthermore, a deep neural network is trained on a mixed dataset containing both real collected and fake produced data samples using a similar weighting technique in order to improve location prediction performance and avoids overfitting. In terms of localization accuracy, our proposed localization approaches outperform conventional supervised localization schemes utilizing the same collection of real labeled samples. For experimental evaluations, we have tested our proposed methods on both simulated data and experimental data from the publicly available UJIndoorLoc database, which is built to test indoor positioning systems relying on Wi-Fi fingerprints. Results based on experimental data provide the localization accuracy increase compared to the classical supervised learning method using the same set of labeled collected data when using the weighted semi-supervised and the weighted-GAN approaches by 10.11 % and 8.53 %, respectively.

In this paper, we study the problem of euclidean distance matrix (EDM) recovery aiming to tackle the problem of received signal strength indicator sparsity and fluctuations in indoor environments for localization purposes. This problem is addressed under the constraints required by the internet of things communications ensuring low energy consumption and reduced online complexity compared to classical completion schemes. We propose EDM completion methods based on neural networks that allow an efficient distance recovery and denoising. A trilateration process is then applied to recovered distances to estimate the target's position. The performance of different deep neural networks (DNN) and convolutional neural networks schemes proposed for matrix reconstruction are evaluated in a simulated indoor environment, using a realistic propagation model, and compared with traditional completion method based on the adaptative moment estimation algorithm. Obtained results show the superiority of the proposed DNN based completion systems in terms of localization mean error and online complexity compared to the classical completion.

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In this paper, we propose a high accuracy fingerprint-based localization scheme for the Internet of Things (IoT). The proposed scheme employs mathematical concepts based on sparse representation and matrix completion theories. Specifically, the proposed indoor localization scheme is formulated as a simple optimization problem which enables efficient and reliable algorithm implementations. Many approaches, like Nesterov accelerated gradient (Nesterov), Adaptative Moment Estimation (Adam), Adadelta, Root Mean Square Propagation (RMSProp) and Adaptative gradient (Adagrad), have been implemented and compared in terms of localization accuracy and complexity. Simulation results demonstrate that Adam outperforms all other algorithms in terms of localization accuracy and computational complexity.

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