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In order to reduce the noise in the location space of the radio map, the short-term Fourier transform (STFT) method is used to detect the usage mode switching to improve the step determination accuracy. When building a radio map, much fewer RSS values are needed using the crowdsourcing method compared to conventional methods, which lends greater influence to noises and erroneous measurements in RSS values. Accordingly, an imprecise radio map is built based on these imprecise RSS values. In order to acquire a smoother radio map and improve the localization accuracy, the MDS method is used to infer an optimal RSS value at each location by exploiting the correlation of RSS values at nearby locations. 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