LOCATION PROOFING USING VIDEO SIMILARITY

Abstract

With the increasing availability of mobile devices and technological improvements, location-based services have become a vital part of our everyday lives. However, a layer of checks and verifications might be required to identify the user’s declared location authenticity, since it is possible to bypass GPS or any other indoor location detection solutions. Existing location proofing solutions mainly propose techniques requiring some sort of an infrastructure, such as access points and/or beacons, or a co-located prover, witnesses and verifier formation to prove the presence of the user. This paper proposes a location proofing solution using the video similarity technique, which is based on the comparison of visual similarities in video pairs to determine the surrounding environment without any infrastructural overhead. The indoor location test results of our prototype indicate that it can achieve a verification accuracy of 97.05% on average in 9.67 seconds.