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The EvAAL Framework

Competing Teams

September 28-29, 2019 - CNR Area of Pisa, Italy

On-site Tracks

Track 1 - Smartphone-based

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SNU-NESL

Corresponding Author

Hyunwoong Kang

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MITLab

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Jing-Wen Liu

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STEPS

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Boaz Ben-Moshe

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Tencent TLBS

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Ye Tian

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Indoor localization together with pervasive outdoor localization supports a lot of services and applications. We are a team from Location Based Service (LBS) department of Tencent Ltd. Localization service deployed by our department fused RF signals, magnetic field, and multiple mobile sensors available on commercial smartphones, which has been serving more than a million user each day. Reliable localization is provided with low power consumption and low data traffic both indoors and outdoors, which switches seamlessly. Location services developed by our team has been used in smart business, intelligent mobility, online-to-offline services and LBS based games.

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YNU-MCL

Corresponding Author

Chanseok-Lee

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We propose a system which incorpo rates multiple resources available in the environment for Indoor Position System (IPS). Our system is based on four kinds of commonly available resources: Wi-Fi infrastructure, Motion sensors, Geo-Magnetism and Camera. Fingerprinting technique is used for Wi-Fi bases positioning which provides the initial location information for Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) approach of motion tracking using inertial sensors commonly available in handheld devices. To compensate the non-ideal situations, we also employed geomagnetic field positioning and image recognition positioning in case of inappropriate or no Wi-Fi facility. Proposed IPS is a smart mobile-based system to estimate position locally, whereas for the fingerprinting survey of Wi-Fi, Geo-Magnetism and Camera are performed prior using a desktop system and mobile phone as a scanning device.

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INDORA

Corresponding Author

Miroslav Opiela

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Project INDORA originated from a few student research projects and final theses, especially the author's dissertation. Various bachelor and master theses have reviewed different aspects of a comprehensive indoor positioning system during recent years. Pedestrian dead-reckoning, map model and bayesian filtering are essential components of the proposed localization system. The main research focus is on a low-dimensional grid-based bayesian filtering, as a less elaborated alternative to Kalman and Particle filters widely used for the positioning. A semi-automatically generated map model helps to reduce the localization error introduced by noisy sensor measurements and inaccurate system configuration, e.g., a step length estimation. The considered use case involves the user with handheld smartphone. It relies mostly on the map and no additional infrastructure is required in the building. The floor transition detection based on barometer measurements allows the system to estimate the user position within a single floor.

Track 2 - Video based

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HanaMicron_where

Corresponding Author

Jisu Ha

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Ariel Robotics

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Boaz Ben-Moshe

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Xiamen Univ.

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Lingxiang Zheng

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Kyushu Univ.

Corresponding Author

Hideaki Uchiyama

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Off-site Tracks

Track 3 - Smartphone based

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Yai

Corresponding Author

Ying-Ren(NIU-EE)

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Department of Electrical Engineering, Yuan Ze University, Zhongli 32003, Taiwan MOST Joint Research Center for AI Technology and All Vista Healthcare, Taipei 10617, Taiwan Research Center for Information Technology Innovation, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan Department of Electrical Engineering, National Ilan University, Yilan 26047, Taiwan

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ÂÂÂÂ YAI team is consisted of Yuan Ze University, Academia Sinica, and National Ilan University, and is led by Prof. Shih-Hau Fang, Dr. Yu Taso, and Prof. Ying-Ren Chien, respectively. We are interested in developing algorithms for indoor positioning systems based on the sensor fusion, machine learning, and statistical signal processing perspective.

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XiheTech

Corresponding Author

Tian Xiaochun

Affiliation
Beijing Xihe Technology Co., Ltd.

Description

ÂÂÂÂ Xihe Technology provides more accurate and convenient indoor and outdoor location access services, and is committed to making life easier and better for everyone. Our indoor and outdoor positioning method is achieved effective by integrating multi-source fusion positioning methods and various kinds of sensors including accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetic sensor, WIFI, Bluetooth, light and other sensors. Our products and solutions have been used in hospitals, supermarkets, transportation hubs and many other occasions.

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Echo State

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Dario Angelone

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UGent

Corresponding Author

Jens Trogh

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UGent - WAVES

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The core of this location tracking system is a route mapping filter that is based on a motion model and the Viterbi principle, a technique related to Hidden Markov Models and backward belief propagation. The physical layout of a building is used to construct the most likely path instead of a sequence of independent, instantaneous estimates. Each paths consists of a chain of grid points and a cost that indicates the probability of this path at this time step. The path with the lowest cost after processing all sensor data is the most likely trajectory. The cost of a path is the sum of costs based on WiFi RSS measurements, barometer, accelerometer, and gyroscope data. This post-processing filter ensures physically realistic trajectories.

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Teleria

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Abdallah SOBEHY

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WiMag

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Chen Zhang

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Tencent

Corresponding Author

Ye Tian

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Fineway

Corresponding Author

Ming Lyu

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IOT2US

Corresponding Author

Bang Wu

Affiliation
Queen Mary University of London

Description

IoT2US Lab belongs to School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) of Queen Mary University of London. IoT2US is the abbreviation of IoT towards Ubiquitous, computing and, Science by all. IoT2US Lab’s overall aim is to use IoT as an enabler to promote a more inclusive, cross-disciplinary vision of science and computer technology by all. Our team members are Bang Wu (QMUL), Chengqi Ma (UCL), Stefan Poslad (supervisor, QMUL), David Selviah (supervisor, UCL), Wei Wu (WHU), Xiaoshuai Zhang (QMUL) , Guangyuan Zhang (QMUL) , Zixiang Ma (QMUL). Our research interests mainly includes indoor positioning and navigation, human activitiy recognition, spatio-temporal big data mining and pattern recognition and other IoT related areas. More informtion refers to http://iot.eecs.qmul.ac.uk.

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UMinho

Corresponding Author

Cristiano Pendao

Affiliation
Algoritmi Research Centre, University of Minho, Portugal

Description

The UMinho Team is a group of researchers from the University of Minho in Portugal, all members of the Algoritmi Research Centre – Group of Computer Communications and Pervasive Media. This group has been working in indoor positioning and navigation for more than ten years, with emphasis in Wi-Fi fingerprinting and solutions for healthcare and industrial applications. Members of this team have attended all IPIN conferences since its first edition in 2010, in Zurich, Switzerland. The University of Minho hosted IPIN 2011. A former team, integrating most of the members of this team competed at the 2015, 2016 and 2017 IPIN competition. For this competition (Track 3), the UMinho Team is experimenting with a completely new approach where data from multiple sensors are fused in an innovative way to estimate the trajectory followed by the user.

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Indora

Corresponding Author

Miroslav Opiela

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Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Science, P.J. Šafárik University (UPJS), Košice, Slovakia

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Naverlabs

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Leonid Antsfeld

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Tonjgi

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Liu Liu

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AraraDS

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Tomás Lungenstrass

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Arara Chile

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Arara is engaged in developing advanced knowledge solutions and producing high-quality technology to address modern business and industry challenges.

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Intel Labs

Corresponding Author

Jeongsik Khoi

AffiliationIntel Labs, Intel Corporation, USA

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Our team has mainly focused on the range-based positioning techniques for Wi-Fi system. Using the received signal strength (RSS) or the round trip time (RTT) of wireless signal, the distances from neighboring access points (APs) can be measured, and consequently, the coordinates of the device can be obtained using the trilateration techniques. In this competition, we combine the positioning results with the pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) techniques to improve the accuracy.

Track 4 - Foot-mounted IMU-based

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KIT

Corresponding Author

nicolai kronenwett

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KIU-SNU

Corresponding Author

Seong Yun Cho

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KYUSHU

Corresponding Author

Hideaki Uchiyama

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SNU

Corresponding Author

Jae Hong Lee

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AOE

Corresponding Author

Wenchao Zhang

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Track 5 - xDR in industrial scenarios

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KisekioL

Corresponding Author

Takayuki Saitou

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Eurasia IoT

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Gan Mathew Kien Lim

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Kawaguchi Lab

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Takuto Yoshida

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Xihe Technology

Corresponding Author

TianXiaochun

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Kyushu Univ.

Corresponding Author

Hideaki Uchiyama

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