2012 CompetitionThe second EvAAL competion was organized in two tracks:
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. The automatic and unobtrusive identification of user’s activities is one of the challenging goals of context-aware computing. Real-time monitoring of human movements 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. After the evaluation of the submitted proposals, we had eight competitors in the localization track and five competitors in the activity recognition track. Evaluation Committee members were present during the two days and half of both competitions, to gather all the information that was going to be used to compute the final scores. The second EvAAL competition officially closed at the AAL forum in Eindhoven (NL). We started with a workshop on September 24th 2012, which included a series of short presentations by the competitors and the organisers, followed by a round table for freely discussing localization and activity recognition issues from both theoretical and implementation points of view. The winners were announced and the awards given during the AAL forum cocktail party, on the evening of the following day. The winner of localization track has been the team from the Centre for Automation and Robotics (Spain) and the winner of activity recognition track has been the team from University of Sevilla (Spain), you can check the detailed results of 2012 competition here. In this second edition we counted with four sponsors, two industrial sponsors - Texas Instruments and ASUS - that donated equipments for the prizes; and two research project sponsors - universAAL and Giraff+ projects - that offered to pay the registration of participants in the AAL Forum for attending the workshop and the award ceremony. For keeping up to date on on the current contest you can subscribe to the
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