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Demo: Acoustic sensing based indoor floor plan construction using smartphones

  • Bing Zhou
  • , Mohammed Elbadry
  • , Ruipeng Gao
  • , Fan Ye

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Abstract

This demo presents BatMapper, an acoustics sensing technology for fast, fine-grained and low cost floor plan construction. BatMapper operates by emitting sound signal and capturing its reffections by two microphones on smartphones. We develop robust probabilistic echo-object association and outlier removal algorithms to identify the correspondence between distances and objects, thus the geometry of corridors. We compensate minute hand sway movements to identify small surface recessions, thus detecting doors automatically. Additionally, we leverage structure cues in indoor environments for user trace calibration. The demo will enable any person to hold the smartphone and walk along a corridor to map the corridor shape and detect doors in real-time.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationMobiCom 2017 - Proceedings of the 23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages519-521
Number of pages3
ISBN (Electronic)9781450349161
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 4 2017
Event23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2017 - Snowbird, United States
Duration: Aug 16 2017Aug 20 2017

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM
VolumePart F131210

Conference

Conference23rd Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MobiCom 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CitySnowbird
Period08/16/1708/20/17

Keywords

  • Acoustic sensing
  • Indoor floor plans
  • Smartphones

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