IPIN Competition 2023 - call for off-site competitions

[Francesco Potortì]

                        * * * CALL FOR COMPETITION * * *

                            Ninth IPIN Competition
                          off-site Indoor Localization
    <http://ipin-conference.org/2022/competition-call-for-competition.html>

                             September 2022, online

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IPIN is pleased to announce the  IPIN 2022 Indoor Localization Competition.  The
competition is aimed  at bringing together the academic  and industrial research
communities for evaluating different approaches  and envisioning new methods for
indoor and seamless localisation, an  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.   The IPIN 2022  Indoor Localization Competition  is entirely
off-site.  It hosts  six different Tracks, all pedestrian-based  and all indoor,
unless specified:

    • Track 2: Camera
    • Track 3: Smartphone
    • Track 4: Foot-mounted IMU
    • Track 6: Smartphone on vehicle
    • Track 7: CIR in warehouse
    • Track 8: 5G in open-plan office

The competition is off-site, meaning  that competitors are provided with sensors
data and  use them to estimate  the user position.  Competitors  calibrate their
algorithms  in advance  using  ground  truth reference  data  (test trials)  and
compete using new unreferenced data (scoring trials).

Prizes of  at least 5000 Rmb  or 625 Eur  per Track, partially sponsored  by the
Satellite Navigation journal, will be awarded during the IPIN conference.


Track 2 – Camera: Walking around and shooting photos to identify the position.

Track  3  –  Smartphone:  Walking  under  realistic  conditions  in  multi-floor
buildings  with  possibly  small  outdoor   parts,  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, with possibly small outdoor parts.

Track 6 – Smartphone  on vehicle: A smartphone fixed to  a car dashboard records
sensors and GNSS data on a partly outdoors, partly indoors route.

Track 7 – CIR  in warehouse: People with UWB tags  move through a warehouse-like
environment in LOS and NLOS conditions and get Channel Impulse Response data.

Track 8 – 5G in open-plan office: ToA data are collected in an open-plan office.


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 obtain  sensor readings  and submit  position estimates  through the
EvaalAPI  web service  <https://evaal.aaloa.org/2021/software>.  The  aim 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 is the same as the latest sensor reading.

Competitors calibrate their algorithms in  advance using ground truth references
(test trials), and compete using new unreferenced data (scoring trials).

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 a given organisation
(laboratory) is allowed to compete.  A team can compete in any number of Tracks.
Registration to the competition is included  in the registration of at least one
team member for the IPIN 2022 conference, and counts as a single paper or poster
published  at the  conference.  Alternatively,  registration to  the competition
costs 800  Rmb or 100 Eur  for the first  Track plus 400  Rmb or 50 Eur  for any
additional   Track,   to    be   paid   when   results    are   submitted,   see
<https://ipin-conference.org/2022>.  Applicants are invited  to subscribe to the
contest at evaal.aaloa.org mailing list and use  it to ask for general information.
For  private communications,  please  write to  info at evaal.aaloa.org  or to  the
chairs of the relevant Track.

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:                   April
	      Application:				       May
	      Test trials published:                          June
	      Submission of results:			    August
	      Proclamation of winners:                 8 September
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

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

Track 2			Soyeon Lee – 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 6			Wenchao Zhang – Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
      			Xinchun Ji –  Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Track 7			Sebastian Kram – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)
      			Christopher Mutschler – Erlangen-Nürnberg University (DE)
Track 8			Shaobo Wang – Huawei Technologies (CN)
			Jiehua Chen – Huawei Technologies (CN)

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