LOCATER: Cleaning WiFi Connectivity Datasets for Semantic Localization

Summary: LOCATER reframes semantic indoor localization as data cleaning: fix missing AP-device links across WiFi events and map devices to semantic subregions. Bootstrapped semi-supervised learning yields coarse localization, while probabilistic refinement achieves fine-grained, room-like accuracy. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 12540
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2021
Pagerank: 4.1945683e-05
Overall Rank: 11,536 | 19.75%
DOI: 10.14778/3430915.3430923

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9,240	ZIP: Lazy Imputation during Query Processing	2024	VLDB	4.3690661e-05
10,950	PLAQUE: Automated Predicate Learning at Query Time	2024	SIGMOD	4.1945683e-05
13,259	T-Cove: An exposure tracing System based on Cleaning Wi-Fi Events on Organizational Premises	2021	VLDB	-

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656	ERACER: A Database Approach for Statistical Inference and Data Cleaning	2010	SIGMOD	0.00018588729
833	Guided Data Repair	2011	VLDB	0.00016138432
881	Don’t be SCAREd: Use SCalable Automatic REpairing with Maximal Likelihood and Bounded Changes	2013	SIGMOD	0.00015661103
1,159	Towards Certain Fixes with Editing Rules and Master Data	2010	VLDB	0.00013592813
1,546	KATARA: A Data Cleaning System Powered by Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011446851
1,594	Adaptive Cleaning for RFID Data Streams	2006	VLDB	0.00011222484
1,627	Data Cleaning: Overview and Emerging Challenges	2016	SIGMOD	0.00011086905
2,276	Mind the Gap: An Experimental Evaluation of Imputation of Missing Values Techniques in Time Series	2020	VLDB	9.1261944e-05
2,629	Online Outlier Detection in Sensor Data Using Non-Parametric Models	2006	VLDB	8.4160309e-05
3,133	Time Series Data Cleaning: From Anomaly Detection to Anomaly Repairing	2017	VLDB	7.4978041e-05
4,273	Cleaning Denial Constraint Violations through Relaxation	2020	SIGMOD	6.3003864e-05
5,152	Learning-Based Cleansing for Indoor RFID Data	2016	SIGMOD	5.6609383e-05
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5,689	IoT-Detective: Analyzing IoT Data Under Differential Privacy	2018	SIGMOD	5.3691265e-05
6,175	Query-Driven Approach to Entity Resolution	2013	VLDB	5.169496e-05

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