EVAAL 2012 - Second EvAAL Competition on Localization and Activity Recognition

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Category localization;tracking;activity recognition

Deadline: April 08, 2012 | Date: July 02, 2012-July 06, 2012

Venue/Country: Madrid, Spain

Updated: 2012-02-23 10:47:43 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

(Evaluating AAL Systems through Competitive Benchmarking)

http://evaal.aaloa.org

Track 1: Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL

2-6 July, 2012

Madrid, ES

Track 2: Activity Recognition for AAL

9-13 July, 2012

Valencia, ES

in conjunction with the AAL Forum

(24-27 September 2012, Eindhoven, NL)

An initiative supported by the AALOA community (http://www.aaloa.org)

by the universAAL project (http://www.universAAL.org)

We are pleased to announce the second EvAAL Competition. EvAAL is a

newborn initiative that aims at bringing together both academic and

industrial research communities to work together on challenging and open

problems in Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), with the purpose of

evaluating different approaches and envisioning new research

opportunities. The universAAL project organises this competition

because it is an opportunity to find good solutions to relevant AAL

challenges. To participate in the competition is therefore also an

opportunity to influence the universAAL project. This competition is the

second of several planned by universAAL to find good solutions to

different challenges in the AAL domain. The whole initiative is

organized as an AALOA project so that the AAL community is involved from

the beginning and can more easily take over the continuation of EvAAL

after the universAAL project finishes.

During the competitions, we will collect large datasets that will be

useful as benchmarks to researcher communities for the simulation

and test of their solutions. These will be significant benchmarks,

because they will have been collected in a realistic environment (the

living labs).

The competition is composed of two tracks and a final workshop:

- Track 1 on Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL, to be held on the

16-20 July, 2012 at the Smart House Living Lab of the Polytechnic

University of Madrid, Spain

- Track 2 on Activity Recognition for AAL, to be held on the 9-13 July,

2012 at the CIAmI Living Lab in Valencia, Spain

- EvAAL workshop to be held in conjunction with the AAL Forum on the

24-27 September 2012, Eindhoven, NL (http://www.aalforum.eu/).

Track 1 - Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL

Localization is a key component for achieving context-awareness. Recent

years have witnessed an increasing trend of location-based services and

applications. In most cases, however, location information is limited by

the accessibility to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), largely

unavailable for indoor environments. The aim of this competition is to

award the best indoor localization system from the point of view of

Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) applications.

Track 2 - Activity Recognition for AAL

The automatic and unobtrusive identification of user's activities is one

of the challenging goals of context-aware computing. Real-time

monitoring of human activities could be a useful tool for many purposes

and future applications such as lifelog, healthcare or entertainment.

The aim of this competition is to award the best activity recognition

system from the point of view of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL)

applications.

Candidate competitors are invited to submit a paper describing their

system to the appropriate track. A "competitor" can be any individual or

group of individuals working as a single team, associated to a single or

a number of organisations. The papers will undergo a peer review by the

technical program committee members. The papers must include a

description of the hardware, deployment, and algorithms and protocols

used, and the description of the internal data produced and processed by

the system.

Each paper must not exceed 4 pages (including tables, figures, etc.) and

must be submitted by April 8th, 2012 using the instructions that will be

published on the EvAAL website (http://evaal.aaloa.org).

The evaluation criteria for the competition, restrictions on the

accepted technologies, and a description of the benchmarks are detailed

in the technical annexes of this call (see notes below). Possible

refinements of the annexes, also based on participating competitors

comments, will be timely distributed to all participants.

Depending on the number of accepted papers, it may be necessary to

restrict participation in the competition to the best ranked papers, due

to space/logistic constraints at the Living Labs.

Selected competitors are admitted to the competition and inclusion of

their paper in the proceeding under the three following conditions:

1. participate to the competition in July at the living lab hosting the

track to which they participate; the organizers will set individual

appointments for each competing team

2. present their work at the final EvAAL workshop that will be held in

conjunction with the AAL Forum, (24-27 September 2012,Eindhoven,NL)

3. provide the organizers with the internal data produced by their systems

during the competition as will be specified by the reviewers; provide

the documentation describing the deployment of their system, as

requested by the organizers: the data will be published on the EvAAL

website.

The winner(s) of the competition will be announced at a special session

of the AAL forum, a major event in the field of Ambient Assisted Living

in Europe. A prize will be awarded to the best entries.

We encourage submissions from both academia and industry (there are no

restrictions on the composition of competing teams) with the aim of

seeking innovative localization and activity recognition solutions for

AAL applications. Please check the EvAAL web site (http://evaal.aaloa.org)

for more information and regular updates on progress with the

competition.

Contact: infoevaal.aaloa.org

Important Dates

Paper Submission Deadline: April 8th, 2012

Acceptance Notification: May 4th, 2012

Camera Ready Deadline: June 30th, 2012

Organizing Committee:

General Chair

Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa and ISTI-CNR (IT)

Local Committee co-Chairs:

Juan Carlos Narajo Martinez, ITACA (ES)

Dario Salvi, Polytecnic University of Madrid (ES)

Publication co-Chairs:

Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer IGD (DE)

Stefan Knauth, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences (DE)

Publicity co-Chairs:

Casper Dhal Marcussen, Region Syddanmark (DK)

Francesco Potortì, ISTI-CNR (IT)

Dataset Management Chair:

Juan Pablo Lazaro, TSB Soluciones Tecnologicas (ES)

Software Tools Chair:

Dario Salvi, Polytecnic University of Madrid (ES)

Financial Chair:

Francesco Furfari, ISTI-CNR (IT)

Track 1 Technical Program Committee (Indoor Localization for AAL)

Chair: Paolo Barsocchi, ISTI-CNR (IT)

Members:

Adriano Moreira, University of Minho (PT)

Ivan Martinovic, University of Oxford (UK)

Rainer Mautz, ETH (CH)

Binghao Li, University of New South Wales (AU)

Neal Patwari, University of Utah (US)

Cesar Benavente-Peces, Polytechnic University of Madrid (ES)

Dante I. Tapia, University of Salamanca (ES)

Hanke Sten, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology (AT)

Francesco Furfari, CNR-ISTI (IT)

Stefan Knauth, Stuttgart University (DE)

Tomás Ruiz-López, University of Granada (ES)

Andreas Braun, Fraunhofer Institute (DE)

Patricial Abril, Polytechnic University of Madrid (ES)

Francesco Potortì, CNR-ISTI (IT)

Ma Pilar Sala Soriano, Polytechnic University of Valencia (ES)

Michele Girolami, CNR-ISTI (IT)

Filipe Meneses, University of Minho (PT)

Dario Salvi, Polytechnic University of Madrid (ES)

Track 2 Technical Program Committee (Activity Recognition for AAL)

Chair: Juan Antonio Álvarez García, Universidad de Sevilla (ES)

Members:

Alessio Micheli, University of Pisa (IT)

Alexander Kroener, DFKI (DE)

Arantxa Rentería, Tecnalia (ES)

Cecilio Angulo, Technical University of Catalonia (ES)

Daniel Roggen, ETHZ (CH)

Diane J. Cook, Washington State University (US)

Francesco Furfari, CNR-ISTI (IT)

Francesco Potortì, CNR-ISTI (IT)

Juan Carlos Augusto, University of Ulster (UK)

Kazuya Murao, Kobe University (JP)

Mohammad-Reza (Saied) Tazari, Fraunhofer IGD (DE)

Reiner Wichert, Fraunhofer IGD (DE)

Roberta Giannantonio, Telecom Italia (IT)

Roozbeh Jafari, University of Texas at Dallas (US)

Stefano Chessa, University of Pisa (IT)

Notes:

(1) Competitors will be requested to interface their systems with the

measurement tools (provided by universAAL project) that will be used

in the competition. To this purpose there will be a shepherding

phase in which the EvAAL organizer will help competitors to

implement this integration.

(2) Evaluation criteria for the competition, restrictions on the

accepted technologies, and a description of the benchmarks are found

in the technical annexes of this call. Refinements of technical

annexes based on competitors requests will be timely distributed to

all participants. Both technical annexes (one for the localization

track and one for the This is a multi-part message in MIME format.