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SensOrchestra: Collaborative Sensing for Symbolic Location Recognition

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Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services (MobiCASE 2010)

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Symbolic location of a user, like a store name in a mall, is essential for context-based mobile advertising. Existing fingerprint-based localization using only a single phone is susceptible to noise, and has a major limitation in that the phone has to be held in the hand at all times. In this paper, we present SensOrchestra, a collaborative sensing framework for symbolic location recognition that groups nearby phones to recognize ambient sounds and images of a location collaboratively. We investigated audio and image features, and designed a classifier fusion model to integrate estimates from different phones. We also evaluated the energy consumption, bandwidth, and response time of the system. Experimental results show that SensOrchestra achieved 87.7% recognition accuracy, which reduces the error rate of single-phone approach by 2X, and eliminates the limitations on how users carry their phones. We believe general location or activity recognition systems can all benefit from this collaborative framework.

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Cheng, HT., Sun, FT., Buthpitiya, S., Griss, M. (2012). SensOrchestra: Collaborative Sensing for Symbolic Location Recognition. In: Gris, M., Yang, G. (eds) Mobile Computing, Applications, and Services. MobiCASE 2010. Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, vol 76. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29336-8_11

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