Montage: Combine frames with movement continuity for realtime multi-user tracking
Title | Montage: Combine frames with movement continuity for realtime multi-user tracking |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Lan Zhang, Kebin Liu, Yonghang Jiang, Xiang-Yang Li, Yunhao Liu, Panlong Yang |
Conference Name | INFOCOM, 2014 Proceedings IEEE |
Date Published | April |
Keywords | Acceleration, Acoustics, Distance measurement, Earth, meter-second-level formation tracking accuracy, mobile phones, movement continuity, moving-direction estimation, real-time multiuser formation tracking, smart phones, smartphones, spatial constraints, submeter-level tracking, target tracking, temporal constraints, Topology, Tracking, user movement vector estimation, Vectors |
Abstract | In this work we design and develop Montage for real-time multi-user formation tracking and localization by off-the-shelf smartphones. Montage achieves submeter-level tracking accuracy by integrating temporal and spatial constraints from user movement vector estimation and distance measuring. In Montage we designed a suite of novel techniques to surmount a variety of challenges in real-time tracking, without infrastructure and fingerprints, and without any a priori user-specific (e.g., stride-length and phone-placement) or site-specific (e.g., digitalized map) knowledge. We implemented, deployed and evaluated Montage in both outdoor and indoor environment. Our experimental results (847 traces from 15 users) show that the stride-length estimated by Montage over all users has error within 9cm, and the moving-direction estimated by Montage is within 20deg. For realtime tracking, Montage provides meter-second-level formation tracking accuracy with off-the-shelf mobile phones. |
DOI | 10.1109/INFOCOM.2014.6848007 |
Citation Key | 6848007 |
- smart phones
- Vectors
- user movement vector estimation
- tracking
- Topology
- temporal constraints
- target tracking
- submeter-level tracking
- spatial constraints
- Smartphones
- Acceleration
- real-time multiuser formation tracking
- moving-direction estimation
- movement continuity
- mobile phones
- meter-second-level formation tracking accuracy
- Earth
- Distance measurement
- Acoustics