Robust Estimators for Variance-Based Device-Free Localization and Tracking

IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 2116-2129

  Zhao, Yang ^a   Patwari, Neal ^b  

^a GE GLOBAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^b University of Utah   (United States)

Author keywords

sensing; statistical signal processing; Wireless sensor networks

Indexed keywords

BALLOONS; CALIBRATION; MACHINERY; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; MOTION ANALYSIS; RSS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOCIAL NETWORKING (ONLINE); TOMOGRAPHY;

DEVICE-FREE LOCALIZATIONS; EMERGENCY SITUATION; KALMAN FILTER TRACKING; LOCALIZATION ACCURACY; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; ROOT MEAN SQUARED ERRORS; SENSING; STATISTICAL SIGNAL PROCESSING;

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS;

EID: 84940975974     PISSN: 15361233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2014.2385710     Document Type: Article

References (50)

1. N. Patwari and J. Wilson, "RF sensor networks for device-free localization: Measurements, models and algorithms," Proc. IEEE, vol. 98, no. 11, pp. 1961-1973, Nov. 2010
2. G. Mao, B. Fidan, and B. D. O. Anderson, "Wireless sensor network localization techniques," Comput. Netw., vol. 51, no. 10, pp. 2529-2553, 2007
3. C. Chang and A. Sahai, "Object tracking in a 2D UWB sensor network," in Proc. 38th Asilomar Conf. Signals, Syst. Comput., Nov. 2004, vol. 1, pp. 1252-1256
4. L.-P. Song, C. Yu, and Q. H. Liu, "Through-wall imaging (TWI) by radar: 2-D tomographic results and analyses," IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sensing, vol. 43, no. 12, pp. 2793-2798, Dec. 2005
5. M. C. Wicks, "RF tomography with application to ground penetrating radar," in Proc. 41st Asilomar Conf. Signals, Syst. Comput., Nov. 2007, pp. 2017-2022
6. M. Youssef, M. Mah, and A. Agrawala, "Challenges: Device-free passive localization for wireless environments," in Proc. ACM Int. Conf. Mobile Comput. Netw., 2007, pp. 222-229
7. A. M. Haimovich, R. S. Blum, and L. J. Cimini, "MIMO radar with widely separated antennas," IEEE Signal Process., vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 116-129, Jan. 2008
8. J. Wilson and N. Patwari, "See-through walls: Motion tracking using variance-based radio tomography networks," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 612-621, May 2011
9. D. Zhang, J. Ma, Q. Chen, and L. M. Ni, "An RF-based system for tracking transceiver-free objects," in Proc. 5th Annu. IEEE Int. Conf. Pervasive Comput. Commun., 2007, pp. 135-144
10. B. Sklar, "Rayleigh fading channels in mobile digital communication systems . i. characterization," IEEE Commun. Mag., vol. 35, no. 7, pp. 90-100, Jul. 1997
11. G. D. Durgin, Space-Time Wireless Channels. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA: Prentice-Hall, 2002
12. Y. Zhao and N. Patwari, "Noise reduction for variance-based device-free localization and tracking," in Proc. 8th IEEE Conf. Sensor, Mesh Ad Hoc Commun. Netw., Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, Jun. 2011, pp. 179-187
13. P. Stoica and R. L. Moses, Introduction to Spectral Analysis. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA: Prentice-Hall, 1997
14. R. Schmidt, "Multiple emitter location and signal parameter estimation," IEEE Trans. Antennas Propag., vol. 34, no. 3, pp. 276-280, Mar. 1986
15. R. Roy and T. Kailath, "ESPRIT-Estimation of signal parameters via rotational invariance techniques," IEEE Trans. Acoust., Speech, Signal Process., vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 984-995, Jul. 1989
16. A. Lakhina, M. Crovella, and C. Diot, "Diagnosing network-wide traffic anomalies," in Proc. Conf. Appl., Technol., Archit., Protocols Comput. Commun., Aug. 2004, pp. 219-230
17. I. Jolliffe, Principal Component Analysis, 2nd ed. New York, NY, USA: Springer-Verlag, 2002
18. S. Nannuru, Y. Li, Y. Zeng, M. Coates, and B. Yang, "Radiofrequency tomography for passive indoor multitarget tracking," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 2322-2333, Dec. 2013
19. A. Tarantola, Inverse Problem Theory and Methods for Model Parameter Estimation. Philadelphia, PA, USA: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2004
20. O. Ledoit and M. Wolf, "A well-conditioned estimator for largedimensional covariance matrices," J. Multivariate Anal., vol. 88, pp. 365-411, Feb. 2004
21. Y. Chen, A. Wiesel, Y. C. Eldar, and A. O. Hero III, "Shrinkage algorithms for MMSE covariance estimation," IEEE Trans. Signal Process., vol. 58, no. 10, pp. 5016-5029, Oct. 2010
22. P. Agrawal and N. Patwari, "Correlated link shadow fading in multi-hop wireless networks," IEEE Trans. Wireless Commun., vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 4024-4036, Aug. 2009
23. J. Wilson and N. Patwari, "Radio tomographic imaging with wireless networks," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 9, no. 5, pp. 621-632, May 2010
24. A. Elgammal, R. Duraiswami, D. Harwood, L. S. Davis, R. Duraiswami, and D. Harwood, "Background and foreground modeling using nonparametric kernel density for visual surveillance," in Proc. IEEE, vol. 90, no. 7, pp. 1151-1163, Jul. 2002
25. A. Edelstein and M. Rabbat, "Background subtraction for online calibration of baseline RSS in RF sensing networks," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 12, no. 12, pp. 2386-2398, Dec. 2013
26. M. Bocca, O. Kaltiokallio, and N. Patwari, "Radio tomographic imaging for ambient assisted living," in Proc. Int. Competitions Final Workshop Eval. AAL Syst. Competitive Benchmarking, 2013, pp. 108-130
27. H. Ng, P. Chan, and N. Balakrishnan, "Estimation of parameters from progressively censored data using em algorithm," Comput. Statist. Data Anal., vol. 39, no. 4, pp. 371-386, 2002
28. M. Bocca, O. Kaltiokallio, N. Patwari, and S. Venkatasubramanian, "Multiple target tracking with RF sensor networks," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 13, no. 8, pp. 1787-1800, Aug. 2014
29. Sensing and Processing Across Networks (SPAN) Lab, Spin website. Available: http://span. ece. utah. edu/spin, 2014
30. Sensing and Processing Across Networks (SPAN) Lab, RTI website [Online]. Available: http://span. ece. utah. edu/radiotomographic-imaging, 2014
31. M. Bocca, A. Luong, N. Patwari, and T. Schmid, "Dial it in: Rotating RF sensors to enhance radio tomography," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. Sensing, Commun. Netw., 2014, pp. 600-608
32. S. M. Kay, Fundamentals of Statistical Signal Processing. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, USA: Prentice-Hall, 1993
33. F. Viani, P. Rocca, G. Oliveri, D. Trinchero, and A. Massa, "Localization, tracking, and imaging of targets in wireless sensor networks: An invited review," Radio Sci., vol. 46, no. 5, pp. 1-12, 2010
34. J. Wilson and N. Patwari, "A fade level skew-laplace signal strength model for device-free localization with wireless networks," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 11, no. 6, pp. 947-958, Jun. 2011
35. M. Seifeldin, A. Saeed, A. E. Kosba, A. El-Keyi, and M. Youssef, "Nuzzer: A large-scale device-free passive localization system for wireless environments," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 12, no. 7, pp. 1321-1334, Jul. 2013
36. C. Xu, B. Firner, R. S. Moore, Y. Zhang, W. Trappe, R. Howard, F. Zhang, and N. An, "Scpl: Indoor device-free multi-subject counting and localization using radio signal strength," in Proc. 12th Int. Conf. Inf. Process. Sensing Netw., Apr. 2013, pp. 79-90
37. J. Xiao, K. Wu, Y. Yi, L. Wang, and L. M. Ni, "Pilot: Passive devicefree indoor localization using channel state information," in Proc. IEEE 33rd Int. Conf. Distrib. Comput. Syst., 2013, pp. 236-245
38. H. Abdel-Nasser, R. Samir, I. Sabek, and M. Youssef, "Monophy: Mono-stream-based device-free WLAN localization via physical layer information," in Proc. Wireless Commun. Netw. Conf., 2013, pp. 4546-4551
39. S. Sigg, M. Scholz, S. Shi, Y. Ji, and M. Beigl, "RF-sensing of activities from non-cooperative subjects in device-free recognition systems using ambient and local signals," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 907-920, Feb. 2014
40. Q. Pu, S. Gupta, S. Gollakota, and S. Patel, "Whole-home gesture recognition using wireless signals," in Proc. 19th Int. Conf. Mobile Comput. Netw., Sept. 2013, pp. 27-38
41. M. A. Kanso and M. G. Rabbat, "Compressed RF tomography for wireless sensor networks: Centralized and decentralized approaches," in Proc. 5th IEEE Int. Conf. Distrib. Comput. Sensing Syst., Jun. 2009, pp. 173-186
42. O. Kaltiokallio and M. Bocca, "Real-time intrusion detection and tracking in indoor environment through distributed RSSI processing," in Proc. IEEE 17th Int. Conf. Embedded Real-Time Comput. Syst. Appl., Aug. 2011, pp. 61-70
43. R. K. Martin, C. Anderson, R. W. Thomas, and A. S. King, "Modelling and analysis of radio tomography," in Proc. 4th IEEE Int. Workshop Comput. Adv. Multi-Sensor Adaptive Process., Dec. 2011, pp. 377-380
44. O. Kaltiokallio, M. Bocca, and N. Patwari, "Follow @grandma: Long-term device-free localization for residential monitoring," in Proc. 7th IEEE Int. Workshop Practical Issues Building Sen. Netw. Appl., Oct. 2012, pp. 984-991
45. Y. Zheng and A. Men, "Through-wall tracking with radio tomography networks using foreground detection," in Proc. Wireless Commun. Netw. Conf., Paris, France, Apr. 2012, pp. 3278-3283
46. D. Maas, J. Wilson, and N. Patwari, "Toward a rapidly deployable RTI system for tactical operations," in Proc. 8th IEEE Workshop Prac. Issues Building Sensor Netw. Appl., Oct. 2013, pp. 203-210
47. Y. Mostofi, "Compressive cooperative sensing and mapping in mobile networks," IEEE Trans. Mobile Comput., vol. 10, no. 12, pp. 1769-1784, Dec. 2011
48. K. Chetty, G. Smith, H. Guo, and K. Woodbridge, "Target detection in high clutter using passive bistatic Wi-Fi radar," in Proc. IEEE Radar Conf., May 2009, pp. 1-5
49. F. Adib and D. Katabi, "See through walls with Wi-Fi!" in Proc. ACM SIGCOMM Conf. SIGCOMM, Aug. 2013, pp. 75-86
50. A. R. Hunt, "Image formation through walls using a distributed radar sensor array," in Proc. 32nd Applied Imagery Pattern Recognition Workshop, Oct. 2003, pp. 232-237.