*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)
*The Fifteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor
Navigation (IPIN 2025)*
15th -18th September 2025 | Tampere (Finland)
We are excited to announce our keynotes for IPIN 2025
*New High-Precision Local Positioning System*
🎤 Kari Leppänen, CEO & Founder, Koherent (Finland)
🗓 Monday, September 15th, 14:00-15:00 in Maestro Room
A new local positioning technology, based on radio interferometry in the 5
GHz band and capable of reaching even 0.1mm precision, is introduced. The
technology and its capabilities are described. The possible applications
ranging from monitoring of large structures to 3D positioning in smart
cities are introduced. Finally, the possible future role of local
positioning systems as opposed to global positioning is discussed.
Kari Leppänen, D. Tech., is the CEO and founder of Koherent, the provider
of the most accurate radio positioning technology in the world. Before
focusing fully on Koherent in 2020, he used to work in the field of radio
astronomy at Aalto University, National Radio Astronomy Observatory (U.S.)
and Joint Institute of VLBI in Europe (the Netherlands) as well as in
wireless communication at Nokia, Huawei and University of Oulu (Professor
of Practice in 6G Flagship Programme).
*Toward Seamless Navigation for Visually Impaired People: Personalized Gait
Learning and Smartphone-Based Guidance*
🎤 Prof. Valérie Renaudin, Gustave Eiffel University, France
🗓 Tuesday, September 16th, 9:00-10:00 in Maestro Room
Ensuring safe and independent mobility for visually impaired people
requires positioning technologies that are both robust and adaptive to
individual users. Within the INMOB Labcom project, we developed innovative
approaches that not only fuse inertial sensors with environmental features
extracted from maps through Bayesian techniques, but also exploit
artificial intelligence to learn each user’s own walking pattern. By
modeling gait characteristics directly from personal data, the system
achieves individualized and more reliable step detection and trajectory
reconstruction, even under real-life conditions. We will also share results
from live demonstrations with two visually impaired participants guided for
eight minutes in the city center of Nantes without GPS, illustrating the
feasibility and impact of this technology. This keynote will present the
scientific advances behind this approach, the challenges of integrating
personalized AI models into smartphone-based guidance and the path toward
assistive technologies that combine inclusivity, accuracy and user-centered
design.
Valérie Renaudin is a Professor at Gustave Eiffel University, France. She
obtained an MSc degree in Geomatics Eng. in 1999, and a PhD in Computer,
Communication, and Information Sciences at l'Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale
de Lausanne (EPFL) in 2009. Her international career includes positions
such as the Technical Director of Swissat in Switzerland, where she
pioneered real-time positioning solutions, and a Senior Research Associate
at the University of Calgary in Canada. As the Geopositioning Laboratory
(GEOLOC) leader at Gustave Eiffel University, Valérie has cultivated a team
of experts specializing in positioning and navigation for soft mobility
modes for travelers and vulnerable users. Her research centers on
indoor/outdoor navigation methods, integrating GNSS, inertial, and magnetic
data to enhance sustainable personal mobility, particularly for
pedestrians. In 2021, she founded nav4you, a company dedicated to
developing location-based services for the safety of firefighters. Valérie
is also the founding Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Journal of Indoor and
Seamless Positioning and Navigation (J-ISPIN) and a steering committee
member of the Indoor Positioning Indoor Navigation (IPIN) international
conference, underscoring her commitment to shaping the future of geomatics
and navigation on a global scale.
*Channel Charting for Robust and Versatile Pseudo-Positioning*
🎤 Professor Olav Tirkkonen, Aalto University, Finland
🗓 Wednesday, September 17th, 9:00-10:00 in Maestro Room
Olav Tirkkonen is full professor in communication theory at Aalto
University, Finland, where he has held a faculty position since 2006. He
received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in theoretical physics from Helsinki
University of Technology in 1990 and 1994, respectively. After
post-doctoral positions at UBC, Vancouver, Canada,and NORDITA, Copenhagen,
Denmark, he was with Nokia Research Center (NRC), Helsinki, Finland from
1999 to 2010. In 2016-2017 he was Visiting Associate Professor at Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY, USA. He has published some 300 papers, and is the
inventor of some 85 families of patents and patent applications which
include 1% of all patents declared essential for the first standardized
version of 4G LTE. His current research interests are in coding for random
access and quantization, quantum computation, and machine learning for
cellular networks. He is a fellow of IEEE and the Asia-Pacific Artificial
Intelligence Association. He served as General Chair of 2022 IEEE
International Symposium on Information Theory, and currently acts as the
chair of the Executive Editorial Committee of IEEE Transactions on Wireless
Communications.
*From 5G NR Positioning to 6G: Standardization, AI/ML Integration, and
Future Challenges*
🎤 Dr. Muhammad Ikram A., Team Leader at Nokia, Finland
🗓 Thursday, September 18th, 9:00-10:00 in Maestro Room
In the rapidly evolving landscape of wireless communication, positioning
technology has emerged as a pivotal feature, transforming how we interact
with the world around us. This keynote will delve into the evolution of
wireless positioning from 5G to the anticipated advancements in 6G,
highlighting the standardization efforts that are shaping this journey. We
will explore the progression of 5G New Radio (NR) positioning, which has
significantly enhanced accuracy and reliability for both indoor and outdoor
applications. The presentation will address the evolving requirements and
use cases that have driven these advancements, focusing on key metrics such
as latency and horizontal positioning error. As we transition towards 6G,
the keynote will discuss the integration of AI and machine learning (ML) in
positioning systems, which promises to overcome challenges in
non-line-of-sight (NLOS) scenarios and enhance accuracy to centimeter-level
precision. Furthermore, the talk will briefly discuss the future challenges
and directions in the field, including the adaptation of ML-based
solutions, bandwidth aggregation, and the emergence of new devices with low
power high accuracy requirements. The session will conclude with insights
into the ongoing 3GPP standardization efforts, particularly in Release 19
and beyond, setting the stage for the next generation of wireless
positioning technologies.
Dr. Muhammad Ikram Ashraf is a technology leader with over 15 years of
experience in wireless communications, IoT, and AI/ML for next-generation
networks. He holds a Ph.D. in Communication Engineering from the University
of Oulu. At Nokia, Dr. Ikram leads strategic initiatives in 5G/6G
standardization, AI/ML-driven air interface design, NR positioning,
ultra-reliable low-latency communications, NTN, and industrial IoT. He has
played a pivotal role in shaping wireless positioning standards,
contributing across multiple 3GPP Releases with driving advancements in
AI/ML-driven positioning, and is actively steering the evolution of
positioning technologies towards 6G. His work bridges innovation and
commercialization, backed by number of granted patents, 50+ publications,
and active contributions to 3GPP standardization, along with global
collaborations with Ericsson, Nokia Bell Labs, and leading universities.
🌍 Join us at IPIN 2025 to gain insights into
- shaping the future of high-precision positioning technology;
- the future of inclusive, accurate, and user-centered navigation
technologies;
- groundbreaking work bridging communication theory, AI, and positioning
technologies;
- and the future of wireless positioning from one of the key
contributors driving the path toward 6G.
See you in Tampere in 10 days!
*Important Dates for IPIN 2025*
Offsite Competition: 08-10 September 2025
Onsite Competition: 13-14 September 2025
Conference Dates: 15-18 September 2025
Please find more details at https://ipin-conference.org/2025/ or contact
ipin2025(a)lists.tuni.fi
Looking forward to meeting you at IPIN2025 in Tampere!
The Fifteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor
Navigation (IPIN 2025)
*The Fifteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor
Navigation (IPIN 2025)*
15th -18th September 2025 | Tampere (Finland)
The fifteenth edition of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning
and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2025) is taking place in Tampere Hall,
Yliopistonkatu 55, Tampere, Finland. IPIN2025 will be organized by Tampere
University, in full in-person mode.
We are excited to share that the final programme:
https://ipin-conference.org/2025/prog_detailedprogramme.html
Monday is devoted to the tutorials (Creating Data-Driven Models for
Predicting Localization Failures for Mobile Robots, and From RSS to XYZ:
Building Machine Learning Pipelines for Indoor Localization Using Python),
conference opening, and the WCAL workshop with 28 poster presentations. The
18 main sessions will take place on Tuesday and Wednesday, with a total of
60 Regular papers. Thursday will bring the results of the competition and
conference awards. We have Keynote Speeches every day from Monday to
Thursday, featuring Kari Leppanen (CEO of Koherent), Valerie Renaudin
(Professor at Gustave Eiffel University, France), Olav Tirkkonen (Professor
at Aalto University, Finland), and Ikram Ashraf (Team Lead at Nokia,
Finland). The social events cover Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday evenings.
*Tutorial 1: "Creating Data-Driven Models for Predicting Localization
Failures for Mobile Robots"*
Localization failures in dynamic, ambiguous, or feature-poor environments
can cause disruptions and safety hazards. Traditional probabilistic methods
(like particle filters) help manage uncertainty, but they cannot predict
failures before they happen.
This tutorial introduces a data-driven approach to predicting localization
failures before they occur, using: 1) NVIDIA Isaac Sim to generate diverse
training datasets (LiDAR, IMU, localization streams, ground-truth poses).
2) Flowcean, a flexible framework that extends ML libraries with high-level
abstractions and ROS 2 integration. 3) Live demonstrations comparing robot
navigation performance with and without predictive capabilities.
This tutorial will be led by:
- Markus Knitt – Doctoral researcher at Hamburg University of Technology
(TUHH), with expertise in robot localization, pose estimation, and
open-source modular robot platforms.
- Sean Maroofi – Research associate at TUHH, focusing on robot control,
machine learning, and development of localization datasets for warehouse
and urban robotics.
By the end of this tutorial, participants will walk away with practical
tools and insights to build predictive models that make autonomous
navigation safer, more reliable, and resilient.
*Tutorial 2: "From RSS to XYZ: Building Machine Learning Pipelines for
Indoor Localization using Python"*
Artificial intelligence is everywhere – from daily life applications to
advanced research. While deploying ML models has become easier than ever,
expert knowledge and fine-tuning can significantly boost performance. This
tutorial aims to showcase how different ML models can be applied at
multiple levels of expertise, helping researchers effortlessly build and
validate their ideas.
This tutorial will be led by Roman Klus, Doctoral Researcher at Tampere
University, Finland, who is defending his PhD thesis on September 5th.
Roman’s research spans:
- Machine learning for 5G and beyond
- Neural networks for mobility management and wireless positioning
- Neural transmitters for enhanced signal characteristics
- Generative models & LLMs for RF fingerprint identification
His journey includes an M.Sc. in Electronics & Communications from Brno
University of Technology (2019), along with international research stays at
Jaume I University (Spain) and UCLA (USA), where he worked on indoor
localization, mmWave systems, and published impactful datasets and papers.
This promises to be an insightful session bridging AI, wireless
communication, and localization research.
*Important Dates for IPIN 2025*
Offsite Competition: 08-10 September 2025
Onsite Competition: 13-14 September 2025
Conference Dates: 15-18 September 2025
Please find more details at https://ipin-conference.org/2025/ or contact
ipin2025(a)lists.tuni.fi
Looking forward to meeting you at IPIN2025 in Tampere!
The Fifteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor
Navigation (IPIN 2025)
Deadline is 31 August:
* * * CALL FOR COMPETITION 2025 * * *
Twelfth IPIN Competition
onsite and offsite Indoor Localization
<https://competition.ipin-conference.org>
offsite: 8-10 Sep, EvaalAPI web service
onsite: 13-14 Sep, Tampere (FI)
awards: 18 Sep, IPIN conference
================================================================================
The International conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Localization
(IPIN) is pleased to announce the twelfth IPIN 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 2025 Indoor Localization Competition consists of
several Tracks:
• Track 1: Smartphone (onsite)
• Track 3: Smartphone (offsite-online)
• Track 4: Foot-mounted IMU (offsite-online)
• Track 5: Smartphone with navigation robot (offsite-online)
• Track 6: Smartphone on vehicle (offsite with onsite survey)
• Track 7: 5G CIR + IMU (offsite-offline)
Results will be presented during dedicated sessions of the IPIN conference,
during which prizes will be awarded to the winners.
ONSITE TRACK
The onsite competition will take place in Tampere, before the IPIN
conference. An actor carries the competing system by walking in the competition
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 a single day, before the competition proper.
Track 1 – Smartphone: The actor walks carrying a smartphone which runs the
competing system, using the sensors available on the smartphones to identify the
user's position.
OFFSITE WITH ONSITE SURVEY TRACK
Competitors survey the area in Tampere, before the IPIN conference.
Subsequently, on a Track-specific day, Track chairs carry a smartphone while
walking and driving in the competition area. The smartphone sends sensors data
in real time to a dedicated Track 6 server, while at the same time competitors
get their data in real time from the same server. Prizes are awarded for a
total worth to be announced.
Track 6 – Smartphone on vehicle: A smartphone affixed to a car dashboard records
sensors and impaired GNSS data on a partly outdoors, partly indoors route.
Additionally, the driver walks an indoor path.
OFFSITE TRACKS
Competitors in offsite competitions 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.
Once testing trials are published, competitors can run them at their premises.
When the EvaalAPI server is made available, they must run the testing trials on
it. Scoring trials are provided to competitors only once they complete a run of
the testing trials.
OFFSITE-ONLINE TRACKS
Competitors run their trials through the EvaalAPI in online mode to emulate the
causal, real-time behaviour of onsite Tracks. See the paper "Offsite evaluation
of localization systems: criteria, systems and results from IPIN 2021-22
competitions" for a conceptual overview.
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 (Ubiquitous Localization
with Inertial Sensors and Satellites) on his foot while walking a path with
possible small outdoor parts. ULISS provides IMU, magnetic and pressure
readings plus GNSS data. No maps are provided.
Track 5 – Smartphone with Navigation Robot: A pedestrian in a museum records PDR
and VIO data provided by a conventional smartphone. A navigation robot moves
with/around the pedestrian and provides its location and UWB ranging/AoA between
the smartphone.
OFFSITE-OFFLINE TRACK
Competitors run their Trials through the EvaalAPI in offline mode, where
competitors download sensors data all at once and have a limited time to upload
all estimates at once.
Track 7 – 5G CIR + IMU: A pedestrian with a smartphone moves through a
warehouse-like environment in LOS and NLOS conditions and observes Channel
Impulse Response and IMU data.
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 distributed on the competition
discussion mailing list contest(a)evaal.aaloa.org and will appear on the
competitions site <https://competition.ipin-conference.org>.
Competitors in offsite 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 onsite
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 offsite Tracks, will be
published after the competition for the purpose of research and comparison.
Winners of the competition are announced on the IPIN web site and on the contest
mailing list.
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 at
https://competition.ipin-conference.org/current-competition/application by
providing a short (2 pages in PDF) technical description of their localization
system, including a description of the algorithms and protocols used. 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 on the IPIN conference site, specifying
the Track to which the registration is linked. Full registration to the
conference covers participation in the competition process for one Track
(allotted time, support and space) and the submission of one paper describing
the system. Participation in additional Tracks can be added for an additional
fee. A reduced registration fee not including access to the conference is
available for offsite Tracks.
Competitors who wish to test their onsite system which does not fit any of the
onsite tracks may ask chairs of Track 1 to be admitted off-track, which will be
granted subject to organisational constraints.
Be sure to subscribe to the contest mailing list to get updates on the
competition: http://evaal.aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/contest
IMPORTANT DATES
----------------------------------------------------
Technical annexes published: 5 May
Application opens: 5 Jun
Testing trials published (offsite): 16 Jun
Application closes: 31 Aug
EvaalAPI server available: (offsite): 1 Sep
Testing trial completed (offsite): 5 Sep
Offsite competition: 8 - 10 Sep
Onsite survey and sw integration: 13 Sep
Onsite competition: 14 Sep
Proclamation of winners: 18 Sep
----------------------------------------------------
COMMITTEES
IPIN Competition committee:
Francesco Potortì – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Antonino Crivello – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universitat de València (ES)
Track chairs:
Track 1 Filippo Palumbo – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Davide La Rosa – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Track 3 Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universitat de València (ES)
Track 4 Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Ni Zhu – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Track 5 Satoki Ogiso – AIST (JP)
Ryosuke Ichikari – AIST (JP)
Track 6 Wenchao Zhang – AIR-CAS (CN)
Ji Xinchun – AIR-CAS (CN)
Track 7 Andreas Eidloth – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)
Jonas Pirkl – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)
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Deadline is 31 August (subject of previous communication wrongly indicated 15 August)
* * * CALL FOR COMPETITION 2025 * * *
Twelfth IPIN Competition
onsite and offsite Indoor Localization
<https://competition.ipin-conference.org>
offsite: 8-10 Sep, EvaalAPI web service
onsite: 13-14 Sep, Tampere (FI)
awards: 18 Sep, IPIN conference
================================================================================
The International conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Localization
(IPIN) is pleased to announce the twelfth IPIN 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 2025 Indoor Localization Competition consists of
several Tracks:
• Track 1: Smartphone (onsite)
• Track 3: Smartphone (offsite-online)
• Track 4: Foot-mounted IMU (offsite-online)
• Track 5: Smartphone with navigation robot (offsite-online)
• Track 6: Smartphone on vehicle (offsite with onsite survey)
• Track 7: 5G CIR + IMU (offsite-offline)
Results will be presented during dedicated sessions of the IPIN conference,
during which prizes will be awarded to the winners.
ONSITE TRACK
The onsite competition will take place in Tampere, before the IPIN
conference. An actor carries the competing system by walking in the competition
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 a single day, before the competition proper.
Track 1 – Smartphone: The actor walks carrying a smartphone which runs the
competing system, using the sensors available on the smartphones to identify the
user's position.
OFFSITE WITH ONSITE SURVEY TRACK
Competitors survey the area in Tampere, before the IPIN conference.
Subsequently, on a Track-specific day, Track chairs carry a smartphone while
walking and driving in the competition area. The smartphone sends sensors data
in real time to a dedicated Track 6 server, while at the same time competitors
get their data in real time from the same server. Prizes are awarded for a
total worth to be announced.
Track 6 – Smartphone on vehicle: A smartphone affixed to a car dashboard records
sensors and impaired GNSS data on a partly outdoors, partly indoors route.
Additionally, the driver walks an indoor path.
OFFSITE TRACKS
Competitors in offsite competitions 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.
Once testing trials are published, competitors can run them at their premises.
When the EvaalAPI server is made available, they must run the testing trials on
it. Scoring trials are provided to competitors only once they complete a run of
the testing trials.
OFFSITE-ONLINE TRACKS
Competitors run their trials through the EvaalAPI in online mode to emulate the
causal, real-time behaviour of onsite Tracks. See the paper "Offsite evaluation
of localization systems: criteria, systems and results from IPIN 2021-22
competitions" for a conceptual overview.
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 (Ubiquitous Localization
with Inertial Sensors and Satellites) on his foot while walking a path with
possible small outdoor parts. ULISS provides IMU, magnetic and pressure
readings plus GNSS data. No maps are provided.
Track 5 – Smartphone with Navigation Robot: A pedestrian in a museum records PDR
and VIO data provided by a conventional smartphone. A navigation robot moves
with/around the pedestrian and provides its location and UWB ranging/AoA between
the smartphone.
OFFSITE-OFFLINE TRACK
Competitors run their Trials through the EvaalAPI in offline mode, where
competitors download sensors data all at once and have a limited time to upload
all estimates at once.
Track 7 – 5G CIR + IMU: A pedestrian with a smartphone moves through a
warehouse-like environment in LOS and NLOS conditions and observes Channel
Impulse Response and IMU data.
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 distributed on the competition
discussion mailing list contest(a)evaal.aaloa.org and will appear on the
competitions site <https://competition.ipin-conference.org>.
Competitors in offsite 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 onsite
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 offsite Tracks, will be
published after the competition for the purpose of research and comparison.
Winners of the competition are announced on the IPIN web site and on the contest
mailing list.
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 at
https://competition.ipin-conference.org/current-competition/application by
providing a short (2 pages in PDF) technical description of their localization
system, including a description of the algorithms and protocols used. 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 on the IPIN conference site, specifying
the Track to which the registration is linked. Full registration to the
conference covers participation in the competition process for one Track
(allotted time, support and space) and the submission of one paper describing
the system. Participation in additional Tracks can be added for an additional
fee. A reduced registration fee not including access to the conference is
available for offsite Tracks.
Competitors who wish to test their onsite system which does not fit any of the
onsite tracks may ask chairs of Track 1 to be admitted off-track, which will be
granted subject to organisational constraints.
Be sure to subscribe to the contest mailing list to get updates on the
competition: http://evaal.aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/contest
IMPORTANT DATES
----------------------------------------------------
Technical annexes published: 5 May
Application opens: 5 Jun
Testing trials published (offsite): 16 Jun
Application closes: 31 Aug
EvaalAPI server available: (offsite): 1 Sep
Testing trial completed (offsite): 5 Sep
Offsite competition: 8 - 10 Sep
Onsite survey and sw integration: 13 Sep
Onsite competition: 14 Sep
Proclamation of winners: 18 Sep
----------------------------------------------------
COMMITTEES
IPIN Competition committee:
Francesco Potortì – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Antonino Crivello – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universitat de València (ES)
Track chairs:
Track 1 Filippo Palumbo – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Davide La Rosa – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Track 3 Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universitat de València (ES)
Track 4 Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Ni Zhu – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Track 5 Satoki Ogiso – AIST (JP)
Ryosuke Ichikari – AIST (JP)
Track 6 Wenchao Zhang – AIR-CAS (CN)
Track 7 Andreas Eidloth – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)
Jonas Pirkl – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)
* * * CALL FOR COMPETITION 2025 * * *
Twelfth IPIN Competition
onsite and offsite Indoor Localization
<https://competition.ipin-conference.org>
offsite: 8-10 Sep, EvaalAPI web service
onsite: 13-14 Sep, Tampere (FI)
awards: 18 Sep, IPIN conference
================================================================================
The International conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Localization
(IPIN) is pleased to announce the twelfth IPIN 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 2025 Indoor Localization Competition consists of
several Tracks:
• Track 1: Smartphone (onsite)
• Track 3: Smartphone (offsite-online)
• Track 4: Foot-mounted IMU (offsite-online)
• Track 5: Smartphone with navigation robot (offsite-online)
• Track 6: Smartphone on vehicle (offsite with onsite survey)
• Track 7: 5G CIR + IMU (offsite-offline)
Results will be presented during dedicated sessions of the IPIN conference,
during which prizes will be awarded to the winners.
ONSITE TRACK
The onsite competition will take place in Tampere, before the IPIN
conference. An actor carries the competing system by walking in the competition
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 a single day, before the competition proper.
Track 1 – Smartphone: The actor walks carrying a smartphone which runs the
competing system, using the sensors available on the smartphones to identify the
user's position.
OFFSITE WITH ONSITE SURVEY TRACK
Competitors survey the area in Tampere, before the IPIN conference.
Subsequently, on a Track-specific day, Track chairs carry a smartphone while
walking and driving in the competition area. The smartphone sends sensors data
in real time to a dedicated Track 6 server, while at the same time competitors
get their data in real time from the same server. Prizes are awarded for a
total worth to be announced.
Track 6 – Smartphone on vehicle: A smartphone affixed to a car dashboard records
sensors and impaired GNSS data on a partly outdoors, partly indoors route.
Additionally, the driver walks an indoor path.
OFFSITE TRACKS
Competitors in offsite competitions 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.
Once testing trials are published, competitors can run them at their premises.
When the EvaalAPI server is made available, they must run the testing trials on
it. Scoring trials are provided to competitors only once they complete a run of
the testing trials.
OFFSITE-ONLINE TRACKS
Competitors run their trials through the EvaalAPI in online mode to emulate the
causal, real-time behaviour of onsite Tracks. See the paper "Offsite evaluation
of localization systems: criteria, systems and results from IPIN 2021-22
competitions" for a conceptual overview.
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 (Ubiquitous Localization
with Inertial Sensors and Satellites) on his foot while walking a path with
possible small outdoor parts. ULISS provides IMU, magnetic and pressure
readings plus GNSS data. No maps are provided.
Track 5 – Smartphone with Navigation Robot: A pedestrian in a museum records PDR
and VIO data provided by a conventional smartphone. A navigation robot moves
with/around the pedestrian and provides its location and UWB ranging/AoA between
the smartphone.
OFFSITE-OFFLINE TRACK
Competitors run their Trials through the EvaalAPI in offline mode, where
competitors download sensors data all at once and have a limited time to upload
all estimates at once.
Track 7 – 5G CIR + IMU: A pedestrian with a smartphone moves through a
warehouse-like environment in LOS and NLOS conditions and observes Channel
Impulse Response and IMU data.
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 distributed on the competition
discussion mailing list contest(a)evaal.aaloa.org and will appear on the
competitions site <https://competition.ipin-conference.org>.
Competitors in offsite 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 onsite
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 offsite Tracks, will be
published after the competition for the purpose of research and comparison.
Winners of the competition are announced on the IPIN web site and on the contest
mailing list.
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 at
https://competition.ipin-conference.org/current-competition/application by
providing a short (2 pages in PDF) technical description of their localization
system, including a description of the algorithms and protocols used. 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 on the IPIN conference site, specifying
the Track to which the registration is linked. Full registration to the
conference covers participation in the competition process for one Track
(allotted time, support and space) and the submission of one paper describing
the system. Participation in additional Tracks can be added for an additional
fee. A reduced registration fee not including access to the conference is
available for offsite Tracks.
Competitors who wish to test their onsite system which does not fit any of the
onsite tracks may ask chairs of Track 1 to be admitted off-track, which will be
granted subject to organisational constraints.
Be sure to subscribe to the contest mailing list to get updates on the
competition: http://evaal.aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/contest
IMPORTANT DATES
----------------------------------------------------
Technical annexes published: 5 May
Application opens: 5 Jun
Testing trials published (offsite): 16 Jun
Application closes: 31 Aug
EvaalAPI server available: (offsite): 1 Sep
Testing trial completed (offsite): 5 Sep
Offsite competition: 8 - 10 Sep
Onsite survey and sw integration: 13 Sep
Onsite competition: 14 Sep
Proclamation of winners: 18 Sep
----------------------------------------------------
COMMITTEES
IPIN Competition committee:
Francesco Potortì – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Antonino Crivello – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universitat de València (ES)
Track chairs:
Track 1 Filippo Palumbo – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Davide La Rosa – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Track 3 Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universitat de València (ES)
Track 4 Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Ni Zhu – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Track 5 Satoki Ogiso – AIST (JP)
Ryosuke Ichikari – AIST (JP)
Track 6 Wenchao Zhang – AIR-CAS (CN)
Track 7 Andreas Eidloth – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)
Jonas Pirkl – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)
*The Fifteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor
Navigation **(IPIN 2025)*
15th -18th September 2025 | Tampere (Finland)
The fifteenth edition of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning
and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2025) is taking place in Tampere Hall,
Yliopistonkatu 55, Tampere, Finland. IPIN2025 will be organized by Tampere
University, in full in-person mode. This year, the Work-in-Progress (WiP)
track has been replaced by The Workshop for Computing & Advanced
Localization (WCAL), where researchers will present their advances in a
Poster Session.
This email brings some fresh news to our audience: 1) the call for
Tutorials; 2) the submission of the Camera-ready version for Regular
Papers; 3) the tentative Conference Programme; and 4) information about the
Registration.
Do not hesitate to contact us for any clarification.
*Call for Tutorials*
The call for tutorials is out. Following the tradition of previous IPIN
editions, tutorials will take place before the conference. We encourage
tutorial submissions on emerging topics in the field of indoor positioning
and navigation, but also tutorials about the well-stablished fundamentals
are welcome.
If you would like to organize a tutorial, please, follow the detailed
instructions at https://ipin-conference.org/2025/cfp_callfortutorials.html.
You have the description of tutorials organized over the last years on our
website, which may inspire you to prepare a fresh tutorial on
cutting-edge positioning solutions.
*Regular Papers - Camera-ready version*
The submission of the camera-ready version of regular papers is open.
Please, follow the detailed instructions in
https://ipin-conference.org/2025/cfp_submissioninstructions.html#insrp
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ipin-conference.org/2025/cfp_submission…>,
which are also available in the "Final Regular Paper Final camera-ready"
link available in your accepted manuscript at Sofconf (
https://softconf.com/p/ipin2025)
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://softconf.com/p/ipin2025)__;!!D9dNQwwGXt…>.
The instructions for the camera-ready version for the WCAL papers will be
announced after the WCAL papers' acceptance notification.
*Tentative Programme available*
The tentative programme for the conference is available at
https://ipin-conference.org/2025/prog_tentativeprogramme.html
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ipin-conference.org/2025/prog_tentative…>.
This schedule will help you to arrange your trip to Tampere in September.
We have a nice social agenda for the evenings and nights on Monday,
Tuesday, and Wednesday.
*Registration is open *
The registration for the conference is now open at
https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/ipin2025
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.lyyti.fi/reg/ipin2025__;!!D9dNQwwGX…>
*Important Dates for IPIN 2025*
WCAL Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: 04 August 2025
Camera-ready Submission (Regular & WCAL papers) & Registration: 15 August
2025
Workshop proposals: 18 August 2025
Offsite Competition: 08-10 September 2025
Onsite Competition: 13-14 September 2025
Conference Dates: 15-18 September 2025
Please find more details at https://ipin-conference.org/2025/
<https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://ipin-conference.org/2025/__;!!D9dNQwwGX…>
or contact ipin2025(a)lists.tuni.fi
Looking forward to meeting you at IPIN2025 in Tampere!
The Fifteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor
Navigation (IPIN 2025)
*Call for Paper Submission*
*Workshop for Computing & Advanced Localization (WCAL)*
*a co-located event in The Fifteenth International Conference on Indoor
Positioning and Indoor Navigation **(IPIN 2025)*
15th -18th September 2025 | Tampere (Finland)
The fifteenth edition of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning
and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2025) is taking place in Tampere Hall,
Yliopistonkatu 55, Tampere, Finland. IPIN2025 will be organized by Tampere
University, in full in-person mode. This year, the WiP track has been
replaced by The Workshop for Computing & Advanced Localization (WCAL),
where researchers will present their advances in a Poster Session.
*The WCAL Paper Submission Deadline is today, 13th July 2025 (AoE) [Hard
deadline]*
*i.e., in around 24 hours*
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.
Interested topics include, but are not limited to:
- AI-assisted localization (snapshot vs. recurrent) and sensor fusion
(deep Kalman filter)
- Location awareness & context detection
- Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality applied to localization
- Benchmarking, assessment, evaluation, and standards
- Data simulation & augmentation for AI-based 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
- Indoor positioning, navigation & tracking methods
- Privacy & security for ILS
- Satellite-based navigation
- Smartphone-based positioning
- User requirements for location-based systems
- Wearable-based systems
Accepted WCAL papers will be presented in a Poster Session and will be
submitted to CEUR-WS.org, which is currently indexed by Scopus, Ei
Compendex, and DBLP. For details, please refer to
https://ipin-conference.org/2025/cfp_callforwcalpapers.html
Workshop Program Committee Chairs:
- Lucie Klus, Tampere University, Finland
- Guohao Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
*Important Dates for IPIN 2025*
WCAL Workshop Paper Submission: 13 July 2025 [Hard deadline]
WCAL Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: 04 August 2025
Conference Dates: 15-18 September 2025
Please find more details at https://ipin-conference.org/2025/ or contact
ipin2025(a)lists.tuni.fi
Looking forward to meeting you at IPIN2025 in Tampere!
The Fifteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor
Navigation (IPIN 2025)
* * * CALL FOR COMPETITION 2025 * * *
Twelfth IPIN Competition
onsite and offsite Indoor Localization
<https://competition.ipin-conference.org>
offsite: 8-10 Sep, EvaalAPI web service
onsite: 13-14 Sep (tentative), Tampere (FI)
awards: 18 Sep, IPIN conference
================================================================================
The International conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Localization
(IPIN) is pleased to announce the twelfth IPIN 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 2025 Indoor Localization Competition consists of
several Tracks:
• Track 1: Smartphone (onsite)
• Track 3: Smartphone (offsite-online)
• Track 4: Foot-mounted IMU (offsite-online)
• Track 5: Smartphone with navigation robot (offsite-online)
• Track 6: Smartphone on vehicle (offsite with onsite survey)
• Track 7: 5G CIR + IMU (offsite-offline)
Results will be presented during dedicated sessions of the IPIN conference,
during which prizes will be awarded to the winners.
ONSITE TRACK
The onsite competition will take place in Tampere, before the IPIN
conference. An actor carries the competing system by walking in the competition
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 a single day, before the competition proper.
Track 1 – Smartphone: The actor walks carrying a smartphone which runs the
competing system, using the sensors available on the smartphones to identify the
user's position.
OFFSITE TRACKS
Competitors in offsite competitions 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.
Once testing trials are published, competitors can run them at their premises.
When the EvaalAPI server is made available, they must run the testing trials on
it. Scoring trials are provided to competitors only once they complete a run of
the testing trials.
OFFSITE-ONLINE TRACKS
Competitors run their trials through the EvaalAPI in online mode to emulate the
causal, real-time behaviour of onsite Tracks. See the paper "Offsite evaluation
of localization systems: criteria, systems and results from IPIN 2021-22
competitions" for a conceptual overview.
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) on his foot while walking a path with
possible small outdoor parts. ULISS provides IMU, magnetic and pressure
readings plus GNSS data. No maps are provided.
Track 5 – Smartphone with Navigation Robot: A pedestrian in a museum records PDR
and VIO data provided by a conventional smartphone. A navigation robot moves
with/around the pedestrian and provides its location and UWB ranging/AoA between
the smartphone.
OFFSITE-OFFLINE TRACK
Competitors run their Trials through the EvaalAPI in offline mode, where
competitors download sensors data all at once and have a limited time to upload
all estimates at once.
Track 7 – 5G CIR + IMU: A pedestrian with a smartphone moves through a
warehouse-like environment in LOS and NLOS conditions and observes Channel
Impulse Response and IMU data.
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 distributed on the competition
discussion mailing list contest(a)evaal.aaloa.org and will appear on the
competitions site <https://competition.ipin-conference.org>.
Competitors in offsite 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 onsite
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 offsite Tracks, will be
published after the competition for the purpose of research and comparison.
Winners of the competition are announced on the IPIN web site and on the contest
mailing list.
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 at
https://competition.ipin-conference.org/current-competition/application by
providing a short (2 pages in PDF) technical description of their localization
system, including a description of the algorithms and protocols used. 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 on the IPIN conference site, specifying
the Track to which the registration is linked. Full registration to the
conference covers participation in the competition process for one Track
(allotted time, support and space) and the submission of one paper describing
the system. Participation in additional Tracks can be added for an additional
fee. A reduced registration fee not including access to the conference is
available for offsite Tracks.
Competitors who wish to test their onsite system which does not fit any of the
onsite tracks may ask chairs of Track 1 to be admitted off-track, which will be
granted subject to organisational contraints.
Be sure to subscribe to the contest mailing list to get updates on the
competition: http://evaal.aaloa.org/mailman/listinfo/contest
IMPORTANT DATES
----------------------------------------------------
Technical annexes published: 5 May
Application opens: 5 Jun
Testing trials published (offsite): 16 Jun
Application closes: 31 Aug
EvaalAPI server available: (offsite): 1 Sep
Testing trial completed (offsite): 5 Sep
Offsite competition: 8 - 10 Sep
Onsite competition: 13 - 14 Sep
Proclamation of winners: 18 Sep
----------------------------------------------------
COMMITTEES
IPIN Competition committee:
Francesco Potortì – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Antonino Crivello – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universitat de València (ES)
Track chairs:
Track 1 Filippo Palumbo – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Davide La Rosa – ISTI-CNR (IT)
Track 3 Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universitat de València (ES)
Track 4 Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Ni Zhu – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR)
Track 5 Satoki Ogiso – AIST (JP)
Ryosuke Ichikari – AIST (JP)
Track 6 Wenchao Zhang – AIR-CAS (CN)
Track 7 Maximilian Stahlke – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)
Andreas Porada – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)
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*Call for Paper Submission*
*Workshop for Computing & Advanced Localization (WCAL)*
*a co-located event in The Fifteenth International Conference on Indoor
Positioning and Indoor Navigation **(IPIN 2025)*
15th -18th September 2025 | Tampere (Finland)
The fifteenth edition of the International Conference on Indoor Positioning
and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2025) is taking place in Tampere Hall,
Yliopistonkatu 55, Tampere, Finland. IPIN2025 will be organized by Tampere
University, in full in-person mode. This year, the WiP track has been
replaced by The Workshop for Computing & Advanced Localization (WCAL),
where researchers will present their advances in a Poster Session.
*The WCAL Paper Submission Deadline is 13 July 2025 (AoE) [Hard deadline]*
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.
Interested topics include, but are not limited to:
- AI-assisted localization (snapshot vs. recurrent) and sensor fusion
(deep Kalman filter)
- Location awareness & context detection
- Augmented Reality & Virtual Reality applied to localization
- Benchmarking, assessment, evaluation, and standards
- Data simulation & augmentation for AI-based 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
- Indoor positioning, navigation & tracking methods
- Privacy & security for ILS
- Satellite-based navigation
- Smartphone-based positioning
- User requirements for location-based systems
- Wearable-based systems
Accepted WCAL papers will be presented in a Poster Session and will be
submitted to CEUR-WS.org, which is currently indexed by Scopus, Ei
Compendex, and DBLP. For details, please refer to
https://ipin-conference.org/2025/cfp_callforwcalpapers.html
Workshop Program Committee Chairs:
- Lucie Klus, Tampere University, Finland
- Guohao Zhang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong
*Important Dates for IPIN 2025*
WCAL Workshop Paper Submission: 13 July 2025 [Hard deadline]
WCAL Workshop Paper Acceptance Notification: 04 August 2025
Conference Dates: 15-18 September 2025
Please find more details at https://ipin-conference.org/2025/ or contact
ipin2025(a)lists.tuni.fi
Looking forward to meeting you at IPIN2025 in Tampere!
The Fifteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor
Navigation (IPIN 2025)