IPIN Competition - deadline 18 November

[Francesco Potortì]

                        * * * CALL FOR COMPETITION * * *

                            Eight IPIN Competition
                          off-site Indoor Localization
                           <https://evaal.aaloa.org/>

                             November 2021, online

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IPIN is pleased to announce the eight IPIN 2021 Indoor Localization Competition.
The  competition is  aimed  at  bringing together  the  academic and  industrial
research  communities for  evaluating different  approaches and  envisioning new
research  opportunities for  the indoor  localization area,  where no  generally
accepted standards exist yet.

The competition builds  on the experience of previous competitions  and is based
on  the  EvAAL  framework,  ensuring experience,  solidity  and  a  well-founded
scientific  method.   IPIN  2021  Indoor Localization  Competition  is  entirely
off-site.  It hosts three different Tracks:

    • Track 3: Smartphone (off-site)
    • Track 4: Foot-mounted IMU (off-site)
    • Track 7: Channel impulse response (off-site)

Competitors calibrate their algorithms in advance using a ground truth reference
database, and compete using new unreferenced data.

Track  3  - Smartphone:  A  pedestrian  walking  under realistic  conditions  in
multi-floor buildings using data provided by a conventional smartphone.

Track 4 - Foot-mounted IMU: A pedestrian carries ULISS (Ubiquituous Localization
with Inertial  Sensors and  Satellites), a state-of-the-art  Inertial Navigation
System producing IMU data, MAG data, PRESSURE data & GNSS data, without the help
of any maps.

Track  7  - Channel  impulse  response:  People with  UWB  tags  move through  a
cluttered industrial indoor environment in LOS and NLOS conditions.


TECHNICAL COMPETITION DETAILS

The  evaluation  criteria for  the  competition,  restrictions on  the  accepted
technologies, technical rules  and a description of the  benchmarks are detailed
in the technical  annexes to this call.  Possible refinements
of the annexes,  even based on applicants' comments, will  be timely distributed
on  the competition  discussion  mailing list  contest at evaal.aaloa.org and  will
appear on the EvAAL web site <https://evaal.aaloa.org/>.

Competitors  in Tracks  3  and  4 obtain  sensor  readings  and submit  position
estimates through the EvaalAPI web service https://evaal.aaloa.org/2021/software
The  purpose is  to emulate  a causal  process similar  to the  data flow  of an
on-site Track: input  data can be read  only once and only in  sequence, and the
timestamp of  each submitted position  estimate must be  the same as  the latest
sensor reading.

All  the data  gathered by  the  competition committee  during the  competition,
including  data produced  by  competing  systems, will  be  published after  the
competition  for  the  purpose  of  research and  comparison.   Winners  of  the
competition are  announced on the  EvAAL and IPIN web  sites and on  the contest
mailing  list.    Scientific  publishing   opportunities  will  be   offered  to
competitors.


COMPETITOR ADMISSION PROCESS

A competitor can be  any individual or group of individuals  working as a single
team,  associated to  a single  or  a number  of organizations,  who applies  to
participate in one or several Tracks.   Only one team from the same organisation
(laboratory) is allowed to compete in any number of Tracks.  Registration to the
competition is included in the registration of  at least one team member for the
IPIN 2021 conference,  and counts as a  single paper or poster  published at the
conference.  Alternatively, registration  to the competition costs  100€ for the
first Track  plus 50€  for any  additional Track,  to be  paid when  results are
submitted, see <https://ipin-conference.org/2021>.  Competitors must contact the
chair of the  relevant Track to get information,  communicate their registration
and provide the final results.

News  and  updates  are  posted  to  the  contest  mailing  list  (subscribe  at
<https://evaal.aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/contest>).


IMPORTANT DATES
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	      Technical annexes published:                  August
	      Data published:                            4 October
	      Submission of results:                   18 November
	      Proclamation of winners:                  2 December
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

Competition chairs      Francesco Potortì - ISTI-CNR (IT)
                        Sangjoon Park - ETRI (KR)

Track 3                 Joaquín Torres-Sospedra - UBIK Geospatial Solutions (ES)
      			Antonio R. Jiménez - CSIC (ES)
Track 4                 Miguel Ortiz - GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
      			Ni Zhu - GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Track 7			Sebastian Kram - Fraunhofer IIS

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