Seamless pedestrian positioning and navigation using landmarks
Many navigation services, such as car navigation services, provide users with praxic navigational instructions (such as “turn left after 200 metres, then turn right after 150 metres”), however people usually associate directions with visual cues (e.g. “turn right at the square”) when giving navigati...
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| author | Basiri, Anahid Amirian, Pouria Winstanley, Adam Marsh, Stuart Moore, Terry Gales, Guillaume |
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| description | Many navigation services, such as car navigation services, provide users with praxic navigational instructions (such as “turn left after 200 metres, then turn right after 150 metres”), however people usually associate directions with visual cues (e.g. “turn right at the square”) when giving navigational instructions in their daily conversations. Landmarks can play an equally important role in navigation and routing services. Landmarks are unique and easy-to-recognise and remember features; therefore, in order to remember when exploring an unfamiliar environment, they would be assets. In addition, Landmarks can be found both indoors and outdoors and their locations are usually fixed. Any positioning techniques which use landmarks as reference points can potentially provide seamless (indoor and outdoor) positioning solutions. For example, users can be localised with respect to landmarks if they can take a photograph of a registered landmark and use an application for image processing and feature extraction to identify the landmark and its location. Landmarks can also be used in pedestrian-specific path finding services. Landmarks can be considered as an important parameter in a path finding algorithm to calculate a route passing more landmarks (to make the user visit a more tourist-focussed area, pass along an easier-to-follow route, etc.). Landmarks can also be used as a part of the navigational instructions provided to users; a landmark-based navigation service makes users sure that they are on the correct route, as the user is reassured by seeing the landmark whose information/picture has just been provided as a part of navigational instruction. This paper shows how landmarks can help improve positioning and praxic navigational instructions in all these ways. |
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| spelling | nottingham-331182020-05-04T20:04:27Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/33118/ Seamless pedestrian positioning and navigation using landmarks Basiri, Anahid Amirian, Pouria Winstanley, Adam Marsh, Stuart Moore, Terry Gales, Guillaume Many navigation services, such as car navigation services, provide users with praxic navigational instructions (such as “turn left after 200 metres, then turn right after 150 metres”), however people usually associate directions with visual cues (e.g. “turn right at the square”) when giving navigational instructions in their daily conversations. Landmarks can play an equally important role in navigation and routing services. Landmarks are unique and easy-to-recognise and remember features; therefore, in order to remember when exploring an unfamiliar environment, they would be assets. In addition, Landmarks can be found both indoors and outdoors and their locations are usually fixed. Any positioning techniques which use landmarks as reference points can potentially provide seamless (indoor and outdoor) positioning solutions. For example, users can be localised with respect to landmarks if they can take a photograph of a registered landmark and use an application for image processing and feature extraction to identify the landmark and its location. Landmarks can also be used in pedestrian-specific path finding services. Landmarks can be considered as an important parameter in a path finding algorithm to calculate a route passing more landmarks (to make the user visit a more tourist-focussed area, pass along an easier-to-follow route, etc.). Landmarks can also be used as a part of the navigational instructions provided to users; a landmark-based navigation service makes users sure that they are on the correct route, as the user is reassured by seeing the landmark whose information/picture has just been provided as a part of navigational instruction. This paper shows how landmarks can help improve positioning and praxic navigational instructions in all these ways. Cambridge University Press 2016-01 Article PeerReviewed Basiri, Anahid, Amirian, Pouria, Winstanley, Adam, Marsh, Stuart, Moore, Terry and Gales, Guillaume (2016) Seamless pedestrian positioning and navigation using landmarks. Journal of Navigation, 69 (01). pp. 24-40. ISSN 0373-4633 Landmark; pedestrian navigation; landmark-based path finding; seamless navigation http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0373463315000442 doi:10.1017/S0373463315000442 doi:10.1017/S0373463315000442 |
| spellingShingle | Landmark; pedestrian navigation; landmark-based path finding; seamless navigation Basiri, Anahid Amirian, Pouria Winstanley, Adam Marsh, Stuart Moore, Terry Gales, Guillaume Seamless pedestrian positioning and navigation using landmarks |
| title | Seamless pedestrian positioning and navigation using landmarks |
| title_full | Seamless pedestrian positioning and navigation using landmarks |
| title_fullStr | Seamless pedestrian positioning and navigation using landmarks |
| title_full_unstemmed | Seamless pedestrian positioning and navigation using landmarks |
| title_short | Seamless pedestrian positioning and navigation using landmarks |
| title_sort | seamless pedestrian positioning and navigation using landmarks |
| topic | Landmark; pedestrian navigation; landmark-based path finding; seamless navigation |
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