Indoor positioning systems are becoming popular nowadays. Indeed, there is plenty of opportunities for real-time user navigation in GPS-denied environments. An interesting use cases are as follows: Fig. 1. Indoor navigation use cases There are several options for hardware (see It-Jim blog post). We have developed the positioning algorithm based on cheap Bluetooth beacons and built-in IMU sensors on a mobile device.
Our task was to develop the algorithm for the automatic road detection in radar images. The challenge was that the radar images are a bit different from the optical ones. In particular, in the case of synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the image formation process is accomplished via coherent processing of the received signals backscattered from the Earth surface. As a result, the multiplicative speckle noise appears in the SAR images.
