Hamada Rizk

The demand for a ubiquitous and accurate indoor localization service is continuously growing. Current solutions for indoor localization usually depend on using the embedded sensors on high-end phones or provide coarse-grained accuracy. We present CellinDeep: a deep learning-based localization system that achieves fine-grained accuracy using the ubiquitous cellular technology. Specifically, CellinDeep captures the non-linear relation between the cellular signal heard by a mobile phone and its loc

Recently, deep learning-based positioning systems have gained attention due to their higher performance relative to traditional methods. However, obtaining the expected performance of deep learning-based systems requires large amounts of data to train model. Obtaining this data is usually a tedious process which hinders the utilization of such deep learning approaches. In this paper, we introduce a number of techniques for addressing the data collection problem for deep learning-based cellular l

Great attention has been paid to indoor localization due to its wide range of associated applications and services. Fingerprinting and time-based localization techniques are among the most popular approaches in the field due to their promising performance. However, fingerprinting techniques usually suffer from signal fluctuations and interference, which yields unstable localization performance. On the other hand, the accuracy of time-based techniques is highly affected by multipath propagation e

The demand for a ubiquitous and accurate indoor localization service is continuously growing. Despite the pervasive nature of cellular-based solutions, their localization quality depends on the number of cell towers provided by the phone, which is typically limited. Specifically, according to the standard, any cell phone can receive signal strength information from up to seven cell towers. However, the majority of cell phones usually return only the associated cell tower information, significant

Outlier detection is an important issue in the realm of data mining. Several applications relay on outlier detection such as intrusion detection, fraud detection, medical and public health data, image processing, etc. Clustering-based outlier detection algorithms are considered as the most important outlier detection approaches. They provide high detection rate, however, they suffer from high false positives. In this paper, we propose a clustering-based outlier detection algorithm that supports

The demand for a ubiquitous and accurate indoor localization service is continuously growing. Cellular-based systems are a good candidate to provide such ubiquitous service due to their wide availability worldwide. One of the main barriers for accuracy is the large number of models of cell phones, which results in variations of the measured received signal strength (RSS), even at the same location and time. In this paper, we propose OmniCells, a deep learning-based system that leverages cellular

Robust and accurate indoor localization has been the goal of several research efforts over the past decade. Towards achieving this goal, WiFi fingerprinting-based indoor localization systems have been proposed. However, fingerprinting involves significant effort; especially when done at high density; and needs to be repeated with any change in the deployment area. While a number of recent systems have been introduced to reduce the calibration effort, these still trade overhead with accuracy.

Japan was hit by typhoon Hagibis, which came with torrential rains submerging almost eight-thousand buildings. For fast alleviation of and recovery from flood damage, a quick, broad, and accurate assessment of the damage situation is required. Image analysis provides a much more feasible alternative than on-site sensors due to their installation and maintenance costs. Nevertheless, most state-of-art research relies on only ground-level images that are inevitably limited in their field of vision.

Robust and accurate indoor localization has been the goal of several research efforts over the past decade. Toward achieving this goal, WiFi fingerprinting-based indoor localization systems have been proposed. However, fingerprinting involves significant effort—especially when done at high density—and needs to be repeated with any change in the deployment area. While a number of recent systems have been introduced to reduce the calibration effort, these still trade overhead with accuracy. This a

The demand for a ubiquitous and accurate indoor localization service is continuously growing. Cellular-based systems, by definition, have been shown to be a perfect selection to provide a ubiquitous localization service. The main barrier towards achieving this goal is the heterogeneity of the many different types and models of cell phones which result in variations of the measured received signal strength (RSS) even from the same location at the same time. This is particular to fingerprinting-ba

Location-based services have undergone massive improvements over the last decade. Despite intense efforts in industry and academia, a pervasive infrastructure-free localization is still elusive. Towards making this possible, cellular-based systems have recently been proposed due to the wide-spread availability of the cellular networks and their support by commodity cellphones. However, these systems only consider locating the user in a 2D single floor environment, which reduces their value when

The demand for a ubiquitous and accurate indoor localization service is continuously growing. Despite the pervasive nature of cellular-based solutions, their localization quality depends on the number of cell towers provided by the phone. According to the standard, any cell phone can receive signal strength information from up to seven cell towers. However, the majority of cell phones usually return only the associated cell tower information, significantly limiting the amount of information avai

The development of the Internet of Things (IoT) opens the doors for innovative solutions in indoor positioning systems. Recently, light-based positioning has attracted much attention due to the dense and pervasive nature of light sources (e.g., Light-emitting Diode lighting) in indoor environments. Nevertheless, most existing solutions necessitate carrying a high-end phone at hand in a specific orientation to detect the light intensity with the phone's light sensing capability (i.e., light senso