<html><body><div style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; color: #000000"><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><div style="font-family:'helvetica';font-size:10pt;color:#000000"><div><div id="zimbraEditorContainer" style="font-family:'helvetica';font-size:10pt;color:#000000" class="6"><div><div style="font-family:'helvetica';font-size:10pt;color:#000000"><br><div><img src="cid:6a9c1e3de00744b493667a0afe1bc08ee0c1798e@zimbra" data-mce-src="cid:6a9c1e3de00744b493667a0afe1bc08ee0c1798e@zimbra" width="713" height="89"></div><br><div> Dear IPIN competitors, </div><br><div>Congratulations to all of you ! You did a great work ! Most of track chairs have already assessed your estimates and computed how close to the ground truth you are... and <strong>final result</strong> will be presented <strong>Thursday 18th</strong> during "IPIN Competition" slot (11:30 - 13:00).</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>In the meanwhile we would be very grateful if you could make us a feedback on IPIN Competition in general, and on this 2025 edition in particular. <!--StartFragment--><p _d-id="83996" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span _d-id="84387" class="--l --r hover:bg-blue-100 hover:dark:bg-blue-600"><span _d-id="84518" class="--l container-target">We</span></span><span _d-id="84519" class="container-target"> </span><span _d-id="84391" class="--l --r hover:bg-blue-100 hover:dark:bg-blue-600"><span _d-id="84520" class="container-target">have</span></span><span _d-id="84521" class="container-target"> </span><span _d-id="84395" class="--l --r hover:bg-blue-100 hover:dark:bg-blue-600"><span 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data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span _d-id="84516" class="--l --r hover:bg-blue-100 hover:dark:bg-blue-600"><span _d-id="84581" class="--r container-target"><strong>So please, fill in the following survey</strong> : <a href="https://forms.office.com/r/qB8397JuMJ?origin=lprLink">https://forms.office.com/r/qB8397JuMJ?origin=lprLink</a>.</span></span></p><p _d-id="83996" style="margin: 0px;" data-mce-style="margin: 0px;"><span _d-id="84516" class="--l --r hover:bg-blue-100 hover:dark:bg-blue-600"><span _d-id="84581" class="--r container-target">It will not take more than <!--StartFragment--><span class="text-format-content ">5 to 10 minutes</span><!--EndFragment--> to fill in.</span></span></p><!--EndFragment--> </div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div> <div>Best regards,</div><div>Miguel ORTIZ, <span id="DWT2970" class="ZmSearchResult"><span id="DWT3000" class="ZmSearchResult">on behalf of</span></span> IPIN Competition Committee<!--EndFragment--> </div> </div></div><div style="font-family:'helvetica';font-size:10pt;color:#000000"><br><div><hr>Announcements from the IPIN conference<br><br><br> * * * CALL FOR COMPETITION 2025 * * *<br><br> Twelfth IPIN Competition<br> onsite and offsite Indoor Localization<br> <a href="https://competition.ipin-conference.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://competition.ipin-conference.org</a> <br><br> offsite: 8-10 Sep, EvaalAPI web service<br> onsite: 13-14 Sep (tentative), Tampere (FI)<br> awards: 18 Sep, IPIN conference<br><br>================================================================================<br><br>The International conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Localization<br>(IPIN) is pleased to announce the twelfth IPIN Indoor Localization Competition.<br>The competition is aimed at bringing together the academic and industrial<br>research communities for evaluating different approaches and envisioning new<br>methods for indoor and seamless localisation, an area where no generally<br>accepted standards exist yet.<br><br>The competition builds on the experience of previous competitions and is based<br>on the EvAAL framework, ensuring experience, solidity and a well-founded<br>scientific method. The IPIN 2025 Indoor Localization Competition consists of<br>several Tracks:<br><br> • Track 1: Smartphone (onsite)<br> • Track 3: Smartphone (offsite-online)<br> • Track 4: Foot-mounted IMU (offsite-online)<br> • Track 5: Smartphone with navigation robot (offsite-online)<br> • Track 6: Smartphone on vehicle (offsite with onsite survey)<br> • Track 7: 5G CIR + IMU (offsite-offline)<br><br>Results will be presented during dedicated sessions of the IPIN conference,<br>during which prizes will be awarded to the winners.<br><br><br>ONSITE TRACK<br><br>The onsite competition will take place in Tampere, before the IPIN<br>conference. An actor carries the competing system by walking in the competition<br>area. Competing systems process data locally, without using any external aid,<br>and provide position estimates in real time. Survey of the area and system<br>calibration is restricted to a single day, before the competition proper.<br><br>Track 1 – Smartphone: The actor walks carrying a smartphone which runs the<br>competing system, using the sensors available on the smartphones to identify the<br>user's position.<br><br><br>OFFSITE TRACKS<br><br>Competitors in offsite competitions are provided with sensors data and use them<br>to estimate the user position. Competitors calibrate their algorithms in<br>advance using ground truth reference data (testing trials) and compete using new<br>unreferenced data (scoring trials). Scoring trials are run on a Track-specific<br>day.<br><br>Once testing trials are published, competitors can run them at their premises.<br>When the EvaalAPI server is made available, they must run the testing trials on<br>it. Scoring trials are provided to competitors only once they complete a run of<br>the testing trials.<br><br><br>OFFSITE-ONLINE TRACKS<br><br>Competitors run their trials through the EvaalAPI in online mode to emulate the<br>causal, real-time behaviour of onsite Tracks. See the paper "Offsite evaluation<br>of localization systems: criteria, systems and results from IPIN 2021-22<br>competitions" for a conceptual overview.<br><br>Track 3 – Smartphone: A pedestrian walking under realistic conditions in<br>buildings with possibly small outdoor parts, using data provided by a<br>conventional smartphone.<br><br>Track 4 – Foot-mounted IMU: A pedestrian carries ULISS (Ubiquituous Localization<br>with Inertial Sensors and Satellites) on his foot while walking a path with<br>possible small outdoor parts. ULISS provides IMU, magnetic and pressure<br>readings plus GNSS data. No maps are provided.<br><br>Track 5 – Smartphone with Navigation Robot: A pedestrian in a museum records PDR<br>and VIO data provided by a conventional smartphone. A navigation robot moves<br>with/around the pedestrian and provides its location and UWB ranging/AoA between<br>the smartphone.<br><br><br>OFFSITE-OFFLINE TRACK<br><br>Competitors run their Trials through the EvaalAPI in offline mode, where<br>competitors download sensors data all at once and have a limited time to upload<br>all estimates at once.<br><br>Track 7 – 5G CIR + IMU: A pedestrian with a smartphone moves through a<br>warehouse-like environment in LOS and NLOS conditions and observes Channel<br>Impulse Response and IMU data.<br><br><br>TECHNICAL COMPETITION DETAILS<br><br>The evaluation criteria for the competition, restrictions on the accepted<br>technologies, technical rules and a description of the benchmarks are detailed<br>in the technical annexes to this call. Possible refinements of the annexes,<br>even based on applicants' comments, will be distributed on the competition<br>discussion mailing list contest@evaal.aaloa.org and will appear on the<br>competitions site <a href="https://competition.ipin-conference.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://competition.ipin-conference.org</a> .<br><br>Competitors in offsite Tracks obtain sensor readings and submit position<br>estimates through the EvaalAPI web service <a href="https://evaal.aaloa.org/evaalapi" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://evaal.aaloa.org/evaalapi</a> .<br>The aim is to emulate a causal process similar to the data flow of an onsite<br>Track: input data can be read only once and only in sequence, and the timestamp<br>of each submitted position estimate is the same as the latest sensor reading.<br><br>All the data gathered by the competition committee during the competition,<br>including data produced by competing systems in offsite Tracks, will be<br>published after the competition for the purpose of research and comparison.<br>Winners of the competition are announced on the IPIN web site and on the contest<br>mailing list.<br><br><br>COMPETITOR ADMISSION PROCESS<br><br>A competitor can be any individual or group of individuals working as a single<br>team, associated to a single or a number of organizations, who wants to<br>participate in one or several tracks. Only one team from the same organisation<br>(laboratory) is allowed to compete.<br><br>Competitors apply for admission to the competition tracks at<br><a href="https://competition.ipin-conference.org/current-competition/application" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://competition.ipin-conference.org/current-competition/application</a> by<br>providing a short (2 pages in PDF) technical description of their localization<br>system, including a description of the algorithms and protocols used. Track<br>chairs will accept or refuse the application in a short time, based on technical<br>feasibility and logistic constraints.<br><br>After acceptance of the competitor's technical description, one member of the<br>competing team is required to register on the IPIN conference site, specifying<br>the Track to which the registration is linked. Full registration to the<br>conference covers participation in the competition process for one Track<br>(allotted time, support and space) and the submission of one paper describing<br>the system. Participation in additional Tracks can be added for an additional<br>fee. A reduced registration fee not including access to the conference is<br>available for offsite Tracks.<br><br>Competitors who wish to test their onsite system which does not fit any of the<br>onsite tracks may ask chairs of Track 1 to be admitted off-track, which will be<br>granted subject to organisational contraints.<br><br><br>Be sure to subscribe to the contest mailing list to get updates on the<br>competition: <a href="http://evaal.aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/contest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">http://evaal.aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/contest</a> <br><br><br>IMPORTANT DATES<br><br> ----------------------------------------------------<br> Technical annexes published: 5 May<br> Application opens: 5 Jun<br> Testing trials published (offsite): 16 Jun<br> Application closes: 31 Aug<br> EvaalAPI server available: (offsite): 1 Sep<br> Testing trial completed (offsite): 5 Sep<br> Offsite competition: 8 - 10 Sep<br> Onsite competition: 13 - 14 Sep<br> Proclamation of winners: 18 Sep<br> ----------------------------------------------------<br><br><br>COMMITTEES<br><br>IPIN Competition committee:<br>Francesco Potortì – ISTI-CNR (IT)<br>Antonino Crivello – ISTI-CNR (IT)<br>Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)<br>Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universitat de València (ES)<br><br>Track chairs:<br>Track 1 Filippo Palumbo – ISTI-CNR (IT)<br> Davide La Rosa – ISTI-CNR (IT)<br>Track 3 Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universitat de València (ES)<br>Track 4 Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)<br> Ni Zhu – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)<br>Track 5 Satoki Ogiso – AIST (JP)<br> Ryosuke Ichikari – AIST (JP)<br>Track 6 Wenchao Zhang – AIR-CAS (CN)<br>Track 7 Maximilian Stahlke – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)<br> Andreas Porada – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)<br><br>-- <br>Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) Mobile: +39.348.8283.107 <br>ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Teams: wnlabisti <br>via G. 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