Visual Positioning Systems – An Extension to MoVIPS

Autoren:
Chadly Marouane,
Marco Maier,
Sebastian Feld,
Martin Werner

Abstract: Due to the increasing popularity of location-based services, the need for reliable and cost-effective indoor positioning methods is rising. As an alternative to radio-based localization methods, in 2011, we introduced MoVIPS (Mobile Visual Indoor Positioning System), which is based on the idea to extract visual feature points from a query image and compare them to those of previously collected geo-referenced images.

Vis-a-Vis: Offline-Capable Management of Virtual Trust Structures Based on Real-Life Interactions

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Vis-a-Vis Verification: Social Network Identity Management Through Real World Interactions

Autoren: Marco Maier, Chadly Marouane, Claudia Linnhoff-Popien, Benno Rott, Stephan A. W. Verclas Abstract: Online services, particularly those aimed at a specific user base such as a company’s employees, face the problem of identity management. Especially when the service constitutes some kind of social network, i.e., the validity of the users‘ identities matters, secure and reliable…