Workshop Programs

9:00 - 9:10

Welcome

Session Chair:  Edward Y. Chang (Google Research, Beijing, P.R. China) 

9:10 -10:00

Keynote: Learning Techniques in Social and Location-Based Service Recommendation

Michael Lyu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China)

10:00 -10:20

Coffee Break

10:20 -12:00

Session A: Location-based services

Session Chair:  S.-H. Gary Chan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, P.R. China) 

10:20

Guided by Touch: Tactile Pedestrian Navigation

Ricky Jacob, Peter Mooney and Adam Winstanley, NUI Maynooth, Ireland

10:40

Extractable Mobile Photo Tags

Ramesh Jain, Mingyan Gao, Setareh Rafatirad and Pinaki Sinha, University of California Irvine, United States

11:00

Inertial Sensors Aided Image Alignment and Stitching for Panorama on Mobile Phones

Qingxuan Yang, Hang Qu, Chengu Wang, Yuan Gao and Edward Chang, Google Research

11:20

Preference-based Top-k Spatial Keyword Queries

Jinzeng Zhang, Dongqi Liu and Xiaofeng Meng,  Information School, Renmin University of China, P.R. China

11:40

XINS: The Anatomy of an Indoor Positioning and Navigation

Architecture

Yuan Gao, Qingxuan Yang, Guanfeng Li, Edward Chang, Dong Wang, Chengu Wang, Hang Qu, Pei Dong and Faen Zhang, Google Research

12:00 - 13:15

Lunch

13:15 - 14:00

Keynote: Toward Better Indoor Localization: Cooperative Localization and Estimation Fusion

S.-H. Gary Chan (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, P.R. China) 

14:00 -15:40

Session B: Localization and privacy

Session Chair: Michael Lyu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China)

14:00

Efficient Relative Camera Orientation Detection for Mobile Applications

Zhiyu Wang, Lifeng Sun, Shiqiang Yang, Tsinghua University, Beijing P.R. China

14:20

Fusion of WI-FI and Bluetooth for Indoor Localization

Rui Wang and Fang Zhao, School of Software Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, P.R. China

Haiyong Luo, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, P.R. China

Bo Lu and Tao Lu, ICTEHI Technology Development Co.Ltd., P.R. China

14:40

Temporal Sensitivity for Location Disclosure through Mobile Photo-sharing

Anna Wu and Xiaolong Zhang, Pennsylvania State University, United States

15:00

History Trajectory Privacy-preserving through Graph Partition

Zheng Huo, Xiaofeng Meng and Yi Huang,  Renmin University of China, P.R. China

15:20

Privacy-Aware Mobile Location-Based Systems

Leon Stenneth and Philip Yu,  University of Illinois at Chicago, United States

15:40 - 16:00

 Coffee break

16:00 -16:40

Session C: Social issues

Session Chair:  Edward Y. Chang (Google Research, Beijing, P.R. China)

16:00 

Location-Based Topic Evolution

Haiqin Yang, Shouyuan Chen, Michael R. Lyu and Irwin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, P.R. China

16:20 

Social Linking and Physical Proximity in a Mobile Location-based Service

Alvin Chin, Hao Wang, Bin Xu, Ke Zhang, Hao Wang, Nokia Research Center, Beijing, P.R. China

Lijun Zhu, Tsinghua University, Beijing, P.R. China

16:40 -17:40

Panel with all 2014 PIs

Panel Chair:  Edward Y. Chang (Google Research, Beijing, P.R. China)