*Call for Papers*
*The Sixteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor
Navigation (IPIN 2026)*
05th-08th October 2026 | Rome (Italy)
The sixteenth edition of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning
and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2026) is taking place in the Conference Center
"Roma Eventi - Fontana di Trevi", Piazza della Pilotta 4, Roma, Italy.
IPIN2026 will be organized in full in-person mode.
*The IPIN 2026 Paper Submission Deadline is 26 April 2026*
Location information of devices in indoor environments has become a key
issue for many emerging applications. IPIN, as one of the most prestigious
forums in the area of indoor positioning and indoor navigation, brings
together leading experts in electronics, surveying, and informatics,
facilitating discussions, collaborations, and new technologies.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- AI-assisted localization and sensor fusion
- Location awareness & context detection
- Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality applied to localization
- Benchmarking, assessment, evaluation, standards
- Data simulation & augmentation for AI systems
- Health & wellness applications
- Indoor maps, indoor geospatial data model, indoor mobile mapping & 3D
building models
- Location-based services & applications
- Monitoring & modeling of human motion
- Privacy & security for ILS
- Satellite-based navigation
- High Sensitivity GNSS, Indoor GNSS, Pseudolites
- RTK GNSS with handheld devices
- Mitigation of GNSS errors when switching indoors
- Industrial metrology & geodetic systems
- User requirements for location-based systems
- Smartphone-based positioning
- Indoor positioning, navigation & tracking methods:
- AI-based systems, wireless sensor or cellular networks-based
positioning
- AoA-, TOA-, TOF-, TDOA-based localization
- Channel Impulse Responses
- Cooperative systems applied to localization
- RSSI-based (e.g. BLE & Wi-Fi) fingerprinting
- Hybrid IMU pedestrian navigation & foot mounted navigation
- (Visual) Inertial Odometry
- Magnetic field-based methods
- Multipath Component Analysis & Tracking
- Optical systems
- Inertial & hybrid systems
- Passive & active RFID, radar, devicefree systems
- Routing in indoor environments
- (Visual) Simultaneous Localization & Mapping (SLAM)
- Sound and Ultrasound systems
- 5G, 6G & UWB
Accepted regular papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library.
Best papers will be awarded during the conference. For details, please
refer to https://ipin-conference.org/2026/cfp_callforpapers.html
*Important Dates for IPIN 2026*
Regular Paper Submission: 26 April 2026
Regular Paper Acceptance Notification: 16 June 2026
Camera-ready submission: 15 August 2026
Conference Dates: 05-08 October 2026
Please find more details at https://ipin-conference.org/2026/ or contact
ipin2026(a)uniroma1.it
Looking forward to meeting you at IPIN2026 in Rome!
The Sixteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor
Navigation (IPIN 2026)
