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The 13th International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining

Domain-Constrained Semi-Supervised Mining of Tracking Models in Sensor Networks

author: Rong Pan, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

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Accurate localization of mobile objects is a major research problem in sensor networks and an important data mining application. Specifically, the localization problem is to determine the location of a client device accurately given the radio signal strength values received at the client device from multiple beacon sensors or access points. Conventional data mining and machine learning methods can be applied to solve this problem. However, all of them require large amounts of labeled training data, which can be quite expensive. In this paper, we propose a probabilistic semi-supervised learning approach to reduce the calibration effort and increase the tracking accuracy. Our method is based on semi-supervised conditional random fields which can enhance the learned model from a small set of training data with abundant unlabeled data effectively. To make our method more efficient, we exploit a Generalized EM algorithm coupled with domain constraints. We validate our method through extensive experiments in a real sensor network using Crossbow MICA2 sensors. The results demonstrate the advantages of methods compared to other state-of-the-art objecttracking algorithms.

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Slides
0:02 Domain-Constrained Semi-Supervised Mining of Tracking Models in Sensor Networks
0:12 Signal-Strength-Based Tracking
0:47 Application Scenario
1:26 Calibration – Labeling Data
1:58 Related Works
2:41 Conditional Random Fields I
3:56 Conditional Random Fields II
4:12 Partially labeled Conditional Random Fields
4:53 Some Details
4:57 Test-bed Setup
5:20 Convergence of Semi-CRF
5:43 Semi-CRF vs. Baselines
5:59 Impact of Grid Sizes
6:04 Conclusion & Future Works

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