[4eyes] Talk Thurs on Smartphone Positioning Systems

[Matthew Turk]

I forget if this has already been sent around or not, but this talk is
tomorrow (Thurs) at 10:00am:

 

 

http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/events/?i=4963

 


 <http://www.ece.ucsb.edu/events/?i=4963> "Smartphone Positioning Systems"


Romit Roy Choudhury, Assoc. Prof., ECE, U. of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
(UIUC)

February 27th (Thursday), 10:00am
Engineering Science Building (ESB), Rm 2001

The sudden boom in the smartphone ecosystem has caught various branches of
technology unprepared - one of these branches is localization. An escalating
number of location-based apps are demanding tailor-made solutions; the
futuristic ones are even broadening the core notion of "location". For
instance, the advertisement industry is asking for semantic localization
services, wherein the device's location
is expressed as "Starbucks" or "Wal-Mart". Museums intend to precisely
identify the painting a visitor is facing. Reminder apps are calling for
continuous localization even though the phone runs on a limited energy
budget. Social apps aim to present walking directions within a shopping
mall, so Alice can find a way to reach Bob. Finally, augmented reality apps
are aspiring for a technology that localizes visible objects - the ability
to look at a distant building through the phone and obtain its location.
Clearly, GPS was not envisioned to serve this wide spectrum of
application-specific demands. The landscape of localization needs to be
revamped against the backdrop of emerging constraints and opportunities.
This talk will describe our efforts in this direction - the multiple
failures, and a recent promise of success.

About Romit Roy Choudhury:

Romit Roy Choudhury is an Associate Professor of ECE at the University of
Illinois at Urbana Champaign (UIUC). He joined UIUC from Fall 2013, prior to
which he was an Associate Professor at Duke University. Romit received his
PhD in the CS department of UIUC in Fall 2006. His research interests are in
wireless protocol design mainly at the PHY/MAC layer, and in mobile
computing at the application layer. Along with his students, he received a
few research awards, including the NSF CAREER Award, the Google Faculty
Award, best paper at Personal Wireless Communications conference, Hoffmann
Krippner Award for Engineering Innovations, etc. 

For more information visit Romit's  <http://synrg.csl.illinois.edu/> Systems
Networking Research Group (SyNRG)

Hosted by: Yasamin Mostofi, Associate Professor ECE

 

 

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