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registration open for the 2025 IPIN competition on indoor localisation

by Francesco Potortì

* * * 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) -- Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) Mobile: +39.348.8283.107 ISTI - Area della ricerca CNR Teams: wnlabisti via G. Moruzzi 1, I-56124 Pisa Web: http://fly.isti.cnr.it (gate 20, 1st floor, room C71) ISPIN: https://ieee-jispin.org/

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IPIN 2025 | Call for papers for the Workshop for Computing & Advanced Localization (WCAL)

by Joaquín Torres Sospedra

*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)

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IPIN2025 | Last days for submitting your regular paper

by Joaquín Torres Sospedra

*🚨🚨 LAST DAYS FOR SUBMITTING YOUR REGULAR PAPER TO THE IPIN CONFERENCE 🚨🚨* *Call for Paper Submission* *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 remind the research community that the deadline for Regular Paper submission is in less than 4 days.* *The IPIN 2025 Paper Submission Deadline 12 May 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 Four Special Sessions have been accepted, which focus on the following topics: - Advanced Autonomous Navigation Technology using Heterogenous Sensors under Signal-denied Scenarios <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_AANT.pdf> - Machine Learning for Localization and Navigation <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_ML.pdf> - Reproducible Research, with Open Data and Code, Plus an Extra Touch of Care <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_ORD.pdf> - Seamless Positioning, Navigation, and Timing with GNSS, LEO, and Sensors Integration <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_GNSSLEO.pdf> Accepted regular papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. For details, please refer to <http://goog_1136525186/> https://ipin-conference.org/2025/cfp_callforpapers.html *Important Dates for IPIN 2025* Regular Paper Submission: 12 May 2025 [Hard Deadline] Regular Paper Acceptance Notification: 16 June 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)

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IPIN2025 | Deadline extension for Regular Papers

by Joaquín Torres Sospedra

*Call for Paper Submission* *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. *Due to numerous requests, the deadline has been extended 3 weeks*. *The new IPIN 2025 Paper Submission Deadline 12 May 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 Four Special Sessions have been accepted, which focus on the following topics: - Advanced Autonomous Navigation Technology using Heterogenous Sensors under Signal-denied Scenarios <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_AANT.pdf> - Machine Learning for Localization and Navigation <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_ML.pdf> - Reproducible Research, with Open Data and Code, Plus an Extra Touch of Care <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_ORD.pdf> - Seamless Positioning, Navigation, and Timing with GNSS, LEO, and Sensors Integration <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_GNSSLEO.pdf> Accepted regular papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. For details, please refer to <http://goog_1136525186/> https://ipin-conference.org/2025/cfp_callforpapers.html *Important Dates for IPIN 2025* Regular Paper Submission: 21 April 2025 Regular Paper Acceptance Notification: 16 June 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)

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IPIN2025 | Call for Papers

by Joaquín Torres Sospedra

*Call for Paper Submission* *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. *The IPIN 2025 Paper Submission Deadline is in two weeks, 21 April 2025 (AoE)* 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, 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 Four Special Sessions have been accepted, which focus on the following topics: - Advanced Autonomous Navigation Technology using Heterogenous Sensors under Signal-denied Scenarios <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_AANT.pdf> - Machine Learning for Localization and Navigation <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_ML.pdf> - Reproducible Research, with Open Data and Code, Plus an Extra Touch of Care <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_ORD.pdf> - Seamless Positioning, Navigation, and Timing with GNSS, LEO, and Sensors Integration <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/docs/IPIN2025_SpecialSession_GNSSLEO.pdf> Accepted regular papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. For details, please refer to <http://goog_1136525186/> https://ipin-conference.org/2025/cfp_callforpapers.html *Important Dates for IPIN 2025* Regular Paper Submission: 21 April 2025 Regular Paper Acceptance Notification: 16 June 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)

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First IPIN 2025 call for competition

by Francesco Potortì

* * * 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 (offsite-online) • 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 the IPIN conference site 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 7 Maximilian Stahlke – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE) Andreas Porada – Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (DE)

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IPIN2025 | Call for Papers

by Joaquín Torres Sospedra

*Call for Paper Submission* *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. *The IPIN 2025 Paper Submission Deadline is 21 April 2025* 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, 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 regular papers will be submitted to IEEE Xplore Digital Library. For details, please refer to <goog_1136525186> https://ipin-conference.org/2025/cfp_callforpapers.html <https://ipin-conference.org/2025/cfp_callforpapers.html> *Important Dates for IPIN 2025* Regular Paper Submission: 21 April 2025 Special Session Proposals: 9 March 2025 Regular Paper Acceptance Notification: 16 June 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)

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IPIN competition: deadline extended to 7 September

by Francesco Potortì

Due to technical problems, application submission is extended to 7 September * * * CALL FOR COMPETITION 2024 * * * Eleventh IPIN Competition onsite and offsite Indoor Localization <https://competition.ipin-conference.org> offsite: 25 Sep-4 Oct, EvaalAPI web service onsite: 9-13 Oct, Hong Kong awards: 17 Oct, IPIN conference ____________________________________________ Application deadline extended to 7 September ================================================================================ The International conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Localization (IPIN) is pleased to announce the eleventh 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 2024 Indoor Localization Competition consists of several Tracks: • Track 1: Smartphone (onsite) • Track 3: Smartphone (offsite-online) • Track 4: Foot-mounted IMU (offsite-online) • Track 6: Smartphone on vehicle (offsite with onsite survey) Results will be presented during dedicated sessions of the IPIN conference, during which prizes will be awarded to the winners. ONSITE TRACK The competition will take place in Hong Kong, 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 Hong Kong, 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 an EvaalAPI server, while at the same time competitors run their trials through the EvaalAPI. 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-ONLINE 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). Competitors run their trials through the EvaalAPI in online mode to emulate the causal, real-time behaviour of onsite Tracks. Scoring trials are run on a Track-specific day. Prizes are awarded for a total worth to be announced. 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) while walking a path with possible small outdoor parts. ULISS provides IMU, magnetic and pressure readings plus GNSS data. No maps are provided. 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. 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) technical description of their localization system in PDF, which includes 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 depending on 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: 15 May Application opens: 15 June Testing trials published (offsite): 16 June Application closes: 7 Sep EvaalAPI server available: (offsite): 6 Sep Testing trial completed (offsite): 15 Sep Offsite competition: 25 Sep - 4 Oct Onsite competition: 9 - 13 Oct Proclamation of winners: 17 Oct ---------------------------------------------------- IPIN COMPETITION COMMITTEE Francesco Potortì – ISTI-CNR (IT) Antonino Crivello – ISTI-CNR (IT) Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR) Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universidade do Minho (PT) Wenchao Zhang – AIR-CAS (CN) Track chairs: Track 1 Antonino Crivello – ISTI-CNR (IT) Filippo Palumbo – ISTI-CNR (IT) Track 3 Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universidade do Minho (PT) Track 4 Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR) Ni Zhu – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR) Track 6 Wenchao Zhang – AIR-CAS (CN) -- Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) ISTI - CNR, Pisa, Italy Web: http://fly.isti.cnr.it Skype: wnlabisti Mobile: +39.348.8283.107 also Telegram, and even Wa

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IPIN 2024 | The registration Early Bird DDL is August 31

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The Fourteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2024) 14th -17th October 2024 | Kowloon, Hong Kong The fourteenth International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation 2024 (IPIN 2024) will take place 14th-17th October 2024 at InterContinental Grand Stanford Hong Kong, East Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon, Hong Kong. IPIN2024 will be organised by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Department of Aeronautical and Aviation Engineering, in full in-person mode. The registration platform is open! The Deadline for Early Bird Price is August 31. The registered address is as follows: https://ipin-conference.org/2024/registration/ Please find more details at https://ipin-conference.org/2024/ or contact ipin2024.hk(a)polyu.edu.hk Looking forward to meeting you at IPIN2024 in Hong Kong! International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) 2024 [https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/PolyU_Email_Signature.jpg]<http://www.polyu.edu.hk> www.polyu.edu.hk<http://www.polyu.edu.hk> [https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/Icons-02.jpg]<https://www.polyu.edu.hk/cpa/online-channels/#ipolyuapp> [https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/Icons-03.jpg] <https://www.facebook.com/HongKongPolyU> [https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/Icons-04.jpg] <https://www.youtube.com/user/HongKongPolyU> [https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/Icons-05.jpg] <https://www.instagram.com/hongkongpolyu/> [https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/Icons-06.jpg] <https://www.linkedin.com/school/hong-kong-polytechnic-university/> [https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/Icons-07.jpg] <https://twitter.com/HongKongPolyU> [https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/Icons-08.jpg] <https://www.polyu.edu.hk/-/media/department/home/setting/polyu-wechat_qr-co…> [https://www.polyu.edu.hk/emaildisclaimer/Icons-09.jpg] <https://www.weibo.com/hongkongpolyu> Disclaimer: This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and notify the sender and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (the University) immediately. Any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this message, or the taking of any action based on it, is strictly prohibited and may be unlawful. The University specifically denies any responsibility for the accuracy or quality of information obtained through University E-mail Facilities. Any views and opinions expressed are only those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent those of the University and the University accepts no liability whatsoever for any losses or damages incurred or caused to any party as a result of the use of such information.

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Call for competition IPIN 2024

by Francesco Potortì

News: - the Technical Annex for Track 6 "Smartphone on vehicle" is now available online at https://competition.ipin-conference.org/current-competition/call-for-compet… - competitors wishing to participate in any Track are invited to apply at https://competition.ipin-conference.org/current-competition/application in order to obtain maps and data from Track chairs - competitors at offsite Tracks (3 and 4) can profit from a reduced registration fee not including access to the IPIN conference. Plese spread the word. * * * CALL FOR COMPETITION 2024 * * * Eleventh IPIN Competition onsite and offsite Indoor Localization <https://competition.ipin-conference.org> offsite: 25 Sep-4 Oct, EvaalAPI web service onsite: 9-13 Oct, Hong Kong awards: 17 Oct, IPIN conference ================================================================================ The International conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Localization (IPIN) is pleased to announce the eleventh 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 2024 Indoor Localization Competition consists of several Tracks: • Track 1: Smartphone (onsite) • Track 3: Smartphone (offsite-online) • Track 4: Foot-mounted IMU (offsite-online) • Track 6: Smartphone on vehicle (offsite with onsite survey) Results will be presented during dedicated sessions of the IPIN conference, during which prizes will be awarded to the winners. ONSITE TRACK The competition will take place in Hong Kong, 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 Hong Kong, 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 an EvaalAPI server, while at the same time competitors run their trials through the EvaalAPI. 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-ONLINE 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). Competitors run their trials through the EvaalAPI in online mode to emulate the causal, real-time behaviour of onsite Tracks. Scoring trials are run on a Track-specific day. Prizes are awarded for a total worth to be announced. 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) while walking a path with possible small outdoor parts. ULISS provides IMU, magnetic and pressure readings plus GNSS data. No maps are provided. 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. 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) technical description of their localization system in PDF, which includes 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 depending on 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: 15 May Application opens: 15 June Testing trials published (offsite): 16 June Application closes: 2 Sep EvaalAPI server available: (offsite): 6 Sep Testing trial completed (offsite): 15 Sep Offsite competition: 25 Sep - 4 Oct Onsite competition: 9 - 13 Oct Proclamation of winners: 17 Oct ---------------------------------------------------- IPIN COMPETITION COMMITTEE Francesco Potortì – ISTI-CNR (IT) Antonino Crivello – ISTI-CNR (IT) Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR) Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universidade do Minho (PT) Wenchao Zhang – AIR-CAS (CN) Track chairs: Track 1 Antonino Crivello – ISTI-CNR (IT) Filippo Palumbo – ISTI-CNR (IT) Track 3 Joaquín Torres-Sospedra – Universidade do Minho (PT) Track 4 Miguel Ortiz – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR) Ni Zhu – GEOLOC Team, University Gustave Eiffel (FR) Track 6 Wenchao Zhang – AIR-CAS (CN) -- On behalf of the IPIN competition committee Francesco Potortì (ricercatore) ISTI - CNR, Pisa, Italy Web: http://fly.isti.cnr.it Skype: wnlabisti Mobile: +39.348.8283.107 also Telegram, and even Wa

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