Ubiquitous indoor vision navigation using a smart device
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Bibliographic record
Abstract
GPS-based technology has served the positioning and navigation industry for decades with outstanding reliability and accuracy. However, limitations for location-based services in indoor scenarios remain where GPS signal reception suffers from severe degradation or even outages. Wi-Fi-based positioning is currently the most popular indoor location solution, with an availability and time-to-first-fix that are significantly better than GPS. However, the achievable position accuracy is only at the level of tens of meters on average depending on database density and signal reception quality. In order to improve positioning accuracy and availability, motion sensors like accelerometers, gyros, and magnetic compasses are increasingly integrated into smart devices. However, their position solutions suffer from the effects of significant accumulative errors. In this paper, a vision-based indoor positioning method is developed to overcome the limitations above. The proposed vision-based system relies on a single camera, widely available on smart phones and tablets. The derivation of the absolute 3D position from 2D snapshots of a single camera requires the use of an external geo-reference database. In this research, a ubiquitous floor plan database has been used to provide accurate geodetic information. Unlike other popular geo-reference databases, the database used in this work can easily be generated with existing resources. The proposed system has been developed as an iOS App and was tested on iPad for various indoor scenarios. The results show that the performance of the proposed system is superior to Wi-Fi-based positioning systems.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it