The Smartphone-Based Offline Indoor Location Competition at IPIN 2016: Analysis and Future Work

This paper presents the analysis and discussion of the off-site localization competition track, which took place during the Seventh International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2016). Five international teams proposed different strategies for smartphone-based indoor pos...

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Main Authors: Joaquín Torres-Sospedra, Antonio R. Jiménez, Stefan Knauth, Adriano Moreira, Yair Beer, Toni Fetzer, Viet-Cuong Ta, Raul Montoliu, Fernando Seco, Germán M. Mendoza-Silva, Oscar Belmonte, Athanasios Koukofikis, Maria João Nicolau, António Costa, Filipe Meneses, Frank Ebner, Frank Deinzer, Dominique Vaufreydaz, Trung-Kien Dao, Eric Castelli
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2017-03-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/17/3/557
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Summary:This paper presents the analysis and discussion of the off-site localization competition track, which took place during the Seventh International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2016). Five international teams proposed different strategies for smartphone-based indoor positioning using the same reference data. The competitors were provided with several smartphone-collected signal datasets, some of which were used for training (known trajectories), and others for evaluating (unknown trajectories). The competition permits a coherent evaluation method of the competitors’ estimations, where inside information to fine-tune their systems is not offered, and thus provides, in our opinion, a good starting point to introduce a fair comparison between the smartphone-based systems found in the literature. The methodology, experience, feedback from competitors and future working lines are described.
ISSN:1424-8220