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This study focuses on indoor 3D positioning using wireless access points (AP) in an environment without adding additional hardware facilities in large-scale complex places. The integration of a deep learning algorithm into indoor 3D positioning is studied, and a 3D dynamic positioning model based on temporal fingerprints is proposed. In contrast to the traditional positioning models with a single input, the proposed method uses a sliding time window to build a temporal fingerprint chip as the input of the positioning model to provide abundant information for positioning. Temporal information can be used to distinguish locations with similar fingerprint vectors and to improve the accuracy and robustness of positioning. Moreover, deep learning has been applied for the automatic extraction of spatiotemporal features. A temporal convolutional network (TCN) feature extractor is proposed in this paper, which adopts a causal convolution mechanism, dilated convolution mechanism, and residual connection mechanism and is not limited by the size of the convolution kernel. It is capable of learning hidden information and spatiotemporal relationships from the input features and the extracted spatiotemporal features are connected with a deep neural network (DNN) regressor to fit the complex nonlinear mapping relationship between the features and position coordinates to estimate the 3D position coordinates of the target. Finally, an open-source public dataset was used to verify the performance of the localization algorithm. Experimental results demonstrated the effectiveness of the proposed positioning model and a comparison between the proposed model and existing models proved that the proposed model can provide more accurate three-dimensional position coordinates.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s23010153","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,27]],"date-time":"2022-12-27T02:53:11Z","timestamp":1672109591000},"page":"153","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":23,"title":["Research on Indoor 3D Positioning Algorithm Based on WiFi Fingerprint"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"23","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-5892-0390","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Lixing","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computers and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shuang","family":"Shang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computers and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Zhenning","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang 110000, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,12,23]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"7007","DOI":"10.1007\/s12652-020-02361-9","article-title":"Privacy-preserving location-based services for mobile users using directional service fetching algorithm in wireless networks","volume":"12","author":"Rajasekar","year":"2021","journal-title":"J. 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