2013 Competition

The third EvAAL competion was organized in two tracks and a demo:

• Track 1 on Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL, was held on 1-5 July, 2013 at the Smart House Living Lab of the Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
• Track 2 on Activity Recognition for AAL, was held on 8-12 July, 2013 at the CIAmI Living Lab in Valencia, Spain
• Demo on Companion Robots for AAL, was held on 15-19 July, 2013 at the Peccioli Living Lab in Pisa, Italy

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 seven competitors in the localization track and four 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 third EvAAL competition officially closed at the AAL forum in Norrköping (SE).

We started with a workshop on September 24th 2013, which included a series of short presentations and poster session 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 Awards Ceremony, on the evening of the 26th of September. The winner of localization track has been the team from the RTL-Service & PetrSU (Russia) and the winner of activity recognition track has been the team from Jožef Stefan Institute (Slovenia), you can check the detailed results of 2013 competition here.

In this third edition we counted with five sponsors, three industrial sponsors - Texas Instruments, ASUS and APACER - that donated equipments for the prizes; and two research project sponsors - universAAL and meGha projects - that supported organization of the competition.

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