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Seeing Around the Corner: Fusing Visual Flow and Inertial Sensors for Indoor Pedestrian Navigation
Ludwig, Bernd
, Meißner, Noah and Sieber, Tim
(2026)
Seeing Around the Corner: Fusing Visual Flow and Inertial Sensors for Indoor Pedestrian Navigation.
In: Huang, Haosheng and Van de Weghe, Nico, (eds.)
Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI 2026) – Oral Presentation Papers.
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Date of publication of this fulltext: 23 Jun 2026 04:33
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DOI to cite this document: 10.5283/epub.79675
Abstract
Outdoors, a quick look at a smartphone is enough to find your way around; indoors, this convenience disappears. Pedestrian dead reckoning based on inertial sensors fails precisely where pedestrians need it most — at directional changes — and progress is slowed down as there is too little training data in the real world to train complex models. In our indoor navigation system, URWalking (described ...
Outdoors, a quick look at a smartphone is enough to find your way around; indoors, this convenience disappears. Pedestrian dead reckoning based on inertial sensors fails precisely where pedestrians need it most — at directional changes — and progress is slowed down as there is too little training data in the real world to train complex models. In our indoor navigation system, URWalking (described in (Ludwig et al. 2023)), we provide routing instructions to many users per day for routes of 500 metres or more. An analysis of the implemented tracking module in (Jackermeier and Ludwig 2018) revealed a 50% drop in PDR accuracy at turns in tight corridors. To improve performance, we collected new multi-modal training data and applied a standard optical flow algorithm to improve turn detection. Our experiments demonstrate that we can predict turntaking with 90% accuracy. We consider this result to be a significant step forward in improving the long-distance tracking capabilities of indoor navigation systems.
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| Item type | Book section | ||||
| Title of Book: | Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Geospatial Artificial Intelligence (GeoAI 2026) – Oral Presentation Papers | ||||
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| Publisher: | Zenodo | ||||
| Open Access Type: | CC-License | ||||
| Date | 20 May 2026 | ||||
| Institutions | Languages and Literatures > Institut für Information und Medien, Sprache und Kultur (I:IMSK) > Professur für Informationslinguistik (Prof. Dr. Bernd Ludwig) Informatics and Data Science > Department Human-Centered Computing > Professur für Informationslinguistik (Prof. Dr. Bernd Ludwig) | ||||
| Interdisciplinary Subject Network | Not selected | ||||
| Research groups and research centres | Not selected | ||||
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| Keywords | Indoor Positioning, Pedestrian Dead Reckoning, Spatial Grounding, Optical Flow, Multimodal Dataset, Ground Truth Generation | ||||
| Dewey Decimal Classification | 000 Computer science, information & general works > 004 Computer science | ||||
| Status | Published | ||||
| Refereed | Yes, this version has been refereed | ||||
| Created at the University of Regensburg | Yes | ||||
| URN of the UB Regensburg | urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-796759 | ||||
| Item ID | 79675 |
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