First call for IPIN competition 2023
Francesco Potortì
Potorti at isti.cnr.it
Mon Mar 27 21:15:08 CEST 2023
Dear all,
this is the first call for competition for the 2023 IPIN competition.
Tomorrow I am going to spread it further and will update the evaal.aaloa.org web site.
Please help me spread the news!
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* * * CALL FOR COMPETITION * * *
Tenth IPIN Competition
on-site and off-site Indoor Localization
<http://evaal.aaloa.org>
23-24 September 2023, Nuremberg (DE)
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The International conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Localization IPIN
is pleased to announce the tenth IPIN 2023 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 2023 Indoor Localization Competition consists of
several on-site and off-site contests. Tracks are real-time, pedestrian-based,
unless otherwise specified:
• Track 1: Smartphone (on-site)
• Track 3: Smartphone (off-site)
• Track 4: Foot-mounted IMU (off-site)
• Track 6: Smartphone on vehicle (off-site)
• Track 7: 5G CIR (off-site)
• Track 8: 5G ToF (off-site)
Results will be presented during dedicated sessions of the IPIN conference and
prizes will be awarded to the winners.
ON-SITE TRACK
The competition will take place in Nuremberg, during the Sunday before the IPIN
conference. An actor carries the competing system by walking in in a predefined
area. Competing systems process data locally, without using any external aid,
and provide position estimates in real time. Survey of the area and system
calibration is restricted to Saturday.
Track 1 - Smartphone: The actor carries a smartphone which runs the
competing system, using the sensors available on the smartphones to identify the
user's position.
OFF-SITE TRACKS
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 (testing trials) and compete using new unreferenced data (scoring
trials). Scoring trials are run on a Track-specific day during the second week
of September.
Track 3 - Smartphone: A pedestrian walking under realistic conditions in
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 magnetic and pressure readings plusGNSS 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 – 5G CIR: People with a smartphone move through a warehouse-like
environment in LOS and NLOS conditions and observe Channel Impulse Response.
Track 8 – 5G ToF: People with a smartphone receive ToA data 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 in off-site Tracks obtain sensor readings and submit position
estimates through the EvaalAPI web service <https://evaal.aaloa.org/evaalapi>.
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.
All the data gathered by the competition committee during the competition,
including data produced by competing systems in off-site Tracks, 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 wants to
participate in one or several tracks. Only one team from the same organisation
(laboratory) is allowed to compete.
Competitors apply for admission to the competition tracks by providing a short
(2 to 4 pages) technical description of their localization system in PDF, which
includes a description of the algorithms and protocols used. The technical
description must be sent by e-mail to the chairs of the intended track, which is
indicated in the relative annex. Track chairs will accept or refuse the
application in a short time, based on technical feasibility and logistic
constraints.
After acceptance of the competitor's technical description, one member of the
competing team is required to register to the IPIN conference, specifying that
the registration is linked to a competition track. Full registration to the
conference covers participation in the competition process (allotted time,
support and space) and the submission of one paper describing the system. Note:
subscriptions related to competion allow for a single paper to be submitted,
rather than the two papers mentioned in the instructions for authors.
Competitors who are authors of an accepted paper will be allowed some time after
the conference for updating it before publication (to be confirmed).
Competitors who wish to test their on-site system which does not fit any of the
on-site tracks may ask chairs of Track 1 to be admitted off-track, which will be
granted depending on organisational contraints.
Subscribe to the contest mailing list to get updated on the competition:
http://evaal.aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/contest
IMPORTANT DATES (tentative)
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Technical annexes published: April
Application: May
Test trials published: June
Submission of results: September
Proclamation of winners: during the conference
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ORGANIZING COMMITTEE (to be completed)
Competition chair Francesco Potortì – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Track 1 Antonino Crivello – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Track 3 Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universidade do Minho (PT)
Track 4 Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Track 6 Wenchao Zhang – Academy of Opto-Electronics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
Track 7 Maximilian Stahlke – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)
Track 8 Cheng Li – Huawei Technologies (CN)
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