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Submission deadlinee postponed because of Easter holidays Second EvAAL Competition Track 1: Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL Track 2: Activity Recognition for AAL in conjunction with the AAL Forum An initiative supported by the AALOA community (http://www.aaloa.org) We are pleased to announce the second EvAAL Competition. EvAAL aims at bringing together academic and industrial research communities to work together on challenging open problems in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), with the purpose of evaluating different approaches to AAL and envisioning new research opportunities. The competition is composed of two tracks and a final workshop:
Track 1 – Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL Localization is a key component for achieving context-awareness. Recent years have witnessed an increasing trend of location-based services and applications. In most cases, however, location information is limited by the accessibility to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), largely unavailable for indoor environments. The aim of this competition is to award the best indoor localization system from the point of view of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications. Track 2 – Activity Recognition for AAL The automatic and unobtrusive identification of user’s activities is one of the challenging goals of context-aware computing. Real-time monitoring of human activities could be a useful tool for many purposes and future applications such as lifelog, healthcare or entertainment. The aim of this competition is to award the best activity recognition system from the point of view of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications. Candidate competitors are invited to submit a paper describing their system to the appropriate track. A “competitor” can be any individual or group of individuals working as a single team, associated to a single or a number of organisations. The papers will undergo a peer review by the technical program committee members. The papers must include a description of the hardware, deployment, and algorithms and protocols used, and the description of the internal data produced and processed by the system. Formatted papers, not exceeding 4 pages, must be submitted by April 8th, 2012 to Easychair. Proceeding of EvAAL 2011 are being published with Springer's CCIS. Contacts for publishing proceedings of EvAAL 2012 are under way. The evaluation criteria for the competition, restrictions on the accepted technologies, and a description of the benchmarks are detailed in the technical annexes of this call). Possible refinements of the annexes, also based on participating competitors comments, will be timely distributed to all participants. Depending on the number of accepted papers, it may be necessary to restrict participation in the competition to the best ranked papers, due to space/logistic constraints at the Living Labs. Selected competitors are admitted to the competition and inclusion of their paper in the proceeding under the three following conditions:
The winner(s) of the competition will be announced at a special session of the AAL forum, a major event in the field of Ambient Assisted Living in Europe. A prize will be awarded to the best entries. We encourage submissions from both academia and industry (there are no restrictions on the composition of competing teams) with the aim of seeking innovative localization and activity recognition solutions for AAL applications. Please check the EvAAL web site (http://evaal.aaloa.org) for more information and regular updates on progress with the competition. Contact: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=evaal2012 Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: April 15th, 2012 Organizing Committee: General Chair: Local Committee co-Chairs: Publication co-Chairs: Publicity co-Chairs: Dataset Management Chair: Software Tools Chair: Financial Chair: Track 1 Technical Program Committee (Indoor Localization for AAL): Chair: Paolo Barsocchi (ISTI-CNR, IT) Members: Adriano Moreira, University of Minho (PT)
Track 2 Technical Program Committee (Activity Recognition for AAL): Chair: Juan Antonio Alvarez (University of Sevilla, Spain) Members: Alessio Micheli, University of Pisa (IT)
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(1) Competitors will be requested to interface their systems with the measurement tools (provided by universAAL project) that will be used in the competition. To this purpose there will be a shepherding phase in which the EvAAL organizer will help competitors to implement this integration. (2) Evaluation criteria for the competition, restrictions on the accepted technologies, and a description of the benchmarks are found in the technical annexes of this call. Refinements of technical annexes based on competitors requests will be timely distributed to all participants. Both technical annexes (one for the localization track and one for the activity recognition track) are available at: http://evaal.aaloa.org/current-competition/technical-annexes2012 |
