Space classification for indoor pedestrian navigation with morphological
and functional characteristics
Abstract
Indoor navigation networks serve as the foundation for indoor pedestrian
navigation services. However, current graph-based topological network
models cannot easily represent complex indoor structures in a manner
consistent with user behaviour and cognitive patterns, and thus cannot
support fine-grained indoor navigation analysis services. To enhance the
rationality of the model, we considered the influences of morphological
and functional characteristics of indoor spaces on pedestrian movement
and proposed a method for classifying navigation spaces. This method,
based on convex space segmentation, defines morphological and functional
characteristic functions, classifying indoor navigation spaces as either
corridors or open spaces, which suitable for representing as median axis
models or visual graphs, respectively. These categories supported the
creation of topological network models for route planning analysis.
Indoor map experiments confirmed the effectiveness of our method in
identifying various types of corridors and open spaces, that addressing
the limitations of width-based parameters,even in complex indoor
settings.