Table Of ContentJuan A. Botía
Juan Antonio Álvarez García
Kaori Fujinami
Paolo Barsocchi
Till Riedel (Eds.)
Communications in Computer and Information Science 386
Evaluating AAL Systems
Through Competitive
Benchmarking
International Competitions and Final Workshop, EvAAL 2013
July and September 2013
Proceedings
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Communications
in Computer and Information Science 386
EditorialBoard
SimoneDinizJunqueiraBarbosa
PontificalCatholicUniversityofRiodeJaneiro(PUC-Rio),
RiodeJaneiro,Brazil
PhoebeChen
LaTrobeUniversity,Melbourne,Australia
AlfredoCuzzocrea
ICAR-CNRandUniversityofCalabria,Italy
XiaoyongDu
RenminUniversityofChina,Beijing,China
JoaquimFilipe
PolytechnicInstituteofSetúbal,Portugal
OrhunKara
TÜBI˙TAKBI˙LGEMandMiddleEastTechnicalUniversity,Turkey
IgorKotenko
St.PetersburgInstituteforInformaticsandAutomation
oftheRussianAcademyofSciences,Russia
KrishnaM.Sivalingam
IndianInstituteofTechnologyMadras,India
DominikS´le˛zak
UniversityofWarsawandInfobright,Poland
TakashiWashio
OsakaUniversity,Japan
XiaokangYang
ShanghaiJiaoTongUniversity,China
Juan A. Botía
Juan Antonio Álvarez García
Kaori Fujinami Paolo Barsocchi
Till Riedel (Eds.)
Evaluating AAL Systems
Through Competitive
Benchmarking
InternationalCompetitionsandFinalWorkshop,EvAAL2013
July and September 2013
Proceedings
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VolumeEditors
JuanA.Botía
UniversidaddeMurcia,Spain
E-mail:[email protected]
JuanAntonioÁlvarezGarcía
UniversityofSeville,Spain
E-mail:[email protected]
KaoriFujinami
TokyoUniversityofAgricultureandTechnology,Tokyo,Japan
E-mail:[email protected]
PaoloBarsocchi
ISTIInstituteofCNR,Pisa,Italy
E-mail:[email protected]
TillRiedel
KarlsruheInstituteofTechnology,Germany
E-mail:[email protected]
ISSN1865-0929 e-ISSN1865-0937
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Preface
Inthelastdecade,wehaveexperiencedaparadigmshiftinthewayweusecom-
puters. We have moved from a world of personal computers to a world of many
differentkindsofsmallerdevices.Manyofthosedevicesaredeployedeverywhere,
i.e., sensors and actuators. Others are hand-held mobile devices with unthink-
able computing capabilities years ago, i.e., smart phones and tablets. Software
is also experiencing significant changes, from single non smart applications to
a myriad of smart services accessible anytime and anywhere. Ambient-assisted
living (AAL), a research program created within the EU devoted to fostering
the development of new ICT technologies for independent living of the elderly
and disabled, can be seen as a natural consequence of such new scenario.
To enable the adoption of AAL solutions by industry, both means for val-
idation of systems and benchmarks for the comparison of ALL solutions and
platforms, are a must. The EvAAL (Evaluation of AAL Systems through Com-
petitive Benchmarking)competition was born of this aim. It is an annual inter-
nationalcontestpromotedbytheAALOAassociation.Itsmaingoalistoassess,
on the participant AAL platforms, the level of autonomy, independent living,
and quality of life they deliver to end users. This goal is enabled through the
establishment of suitable benchmarks and evaluation metrics.
This book is a compilation of papers describing the systems participating
in the third edition of the EvAAL competition. The first edition in 2011 was
centered on indoor localization. The second edition in 2012 included a track
on activity recognition. This third edition in 2013 maintained both tracks. The
Indoor Localization and Tracking for AAL track was held in Madrid, Spain,
during July 15, 2013. The Activity Recognition for AAL track was also held in
Spain, Valencia, during July 8–12, 2013. The first track included sevendifferent
participantsandthe secondtrackcomprisedfourparticipants.Afinal workshop
to sum up and discuss the results was celebrated in conjunction with the AAL
Forum in September 2013 in Norrk¨oping,Sweden. We sincerely hope the reader
finds this compilation interesting for getting acquainted with the state of the
art in two basic tasks of ambient intelligence in general and AAL systems in
particular: indoor location and activity recognition.
We would like to thank everybody who made this volume of proceedings
possible. Firstly, we thank the Organizing Committees of this initiative and the
AALOA institution for its support. Obviously, we also want to thank the au-
thors for their effort in preparing this set of high-quality papers. Special thanks
mustalsobe giventothetwolivinglabsthathostedthe(1)IndoorLocalization
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and Tracking and (2) the Activity Recognition events: Polytechnic University
of Madrid’s Living Lab and the CIAmI Living Lab, respectively. And finally, a
specialmentionmustbemadeofoursponsors:theUniversAALProject,meGha,
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June 2013 Juan A. Bot´ıa
Organization
The third edition of the EvAAL competition was divided into two different
events:theIndoorLocalizationandTrackingeventandtheActivityRecognition
event.BotheventswereheldinSpain.ThefirstwasorganizedbytheLivingLab
ofthePolytechnicUniversityofMadrid.ThesecondwasorganizedbytheCIAmI
Living Lab in Valencia.
Committees
General Chairs:
Juan Carlos Augusto Middlesex University, UK
Stefano Chessa University of Pisa, Italy, (as deputy of
Francesco Furfari, CNR-ISTI, Italy)
Indoor Localization and Tracking Chairs:
Till Riedel Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Paolo Barsocchi CNR-ISTI, Italy
Activity Recognition Chairs:
Kaori Fujinami Tokyo University of Agriculture and
Technology, Japan
Juan Antonio A´lvarez Garc´ıa University of Seville, Spain
Local Committee Chairs:
Dario Salvi Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
Juan Pablo La´zaro TSB Soluciones Tecnologicas, Spain
Filippo Cavallo Scuola Superiore S. Anna, Italy
Publication Chair:
Juan A. Bot´ıa University of Murcia, Spain
Publicity Chair:
Francesco Potort`ı ISTI-CNR, Italy
Dataset Management Chair:
Stefano Chessa Pisa University, Italy
Software Tools:
Alejandro Medrano Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain
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Financial Chairs:
Rose Lai ITRI, Taiwan
Morgen Chang ITRI, Taiwan
Axel Sikora University of Applied Sciences Offenburg,
Germany
Jesu´s Bermejo Telvent, Spain
Program Committee of the Indoor Loalization and
Tracking Track
Adriano Moreira University of Minho, Portugal
Ivan Martinovic University of Oxford, UK
Binghao Li University of New South Wales, Australia
Maurizio Bocca University of Utah, USA
Stefan Knauth Stuttgart University, Germany
Francesco Potort`ı CNR-ISTI, Italy
Michele Girolami CNR-ISTI, Italy
Filipe Meneses University of Minho, Portugal
Bruno Ando` University of Catania, Italy
Axel Sikora University of Applied Sciences Offenburg,
Germany
Moustafa Youssef University of Science and Technology
Alexandria, Egypt
Marco Zuniga Delft University of Technology,
The Netherlands
Wilhelm Stork Institute for Information Processing
Technologies, Germany
Steffen Meyer FraunhoferInstituteforIntegratedCircuitsIIS,
Germany
Philippe Canalda Femto-ST Institute UMR CNRS, France
Program Committee of the Activity Recognition Track
Alessio Micheli University of Pisa, Italy
Cecilio Angulo Universitat Polit`ecnica de
Catalunya - BarcelonaTech, Spain
Stefano Chessa University of Pisa, Italy
Kazuya Murao Kobe University, Japan
Roozbeh Jafari University of Texas at Dallas, USA
Luis Miguel Soria University of Seville, Spain
Fahim Kawsar Alcatel-Lucent, Belgium
Susanna Pirttikangas University of Oulu, Finland
Sozo Inoue Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan
Organization IX
Jin-Hyuk Hong Carnegie Melon University, USA
Mitja Lustrek Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
Wenwei YU Chiba University, Japan
Roberta Giannantonio Telecom Italia, Italy
Sponsoring Institutions
The EvAAL competition is hosted by AALOA and sponsored by the following
organizations:
The EU Funded UniversAAL Project.
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Table of Contents
Preface to the third edition of the EvAAL
competition
An Improved Saliency for RGB-D Visual Tracking and Control
Strategies for a Bio-monitoring Mobile Robot........................ 1
Nevrez Imamoglu, Zhixuan Wei, Huangjun Shi, Yuki Yoshida,
Myagmarbayar Nergui, Jose Gonzalez, Dongyun Gu,
Weidong Chen, Tomonari Furukawa, Kenzo Nonami, and
Wenwei Yu
Efficient Activity Recognition and Fall Detection Using
Accelerometers .................................................. 13
Simon Kozina, Hristijan Gjoreski, Matjaˇz Gams, and Mitja Luˇstrek
Multisensor Data Fusion for Activity Recognition Based on Reservoir
Computing...................................................... 24
Filippo Palumbo, Paolo Barsocchi, Claudio Gallicchio,
Stefano Chessa, and Alessio Micheli
Activity Recognition System Using Non-intrusive Devices through a
Complementary Technique Based on Discrete Methods................ 36
Miguel A´ngel A´lvarez de la Concepcio´n, Luis Miguel Soria Morillo,
Luis Gonz´alez Abril, and Juan Antonio Ortega Ram´ırez
Human Activity Recognition Based on Multiple Kinects .............. 48
Emanuela Haller, Georgiana Scarlat, Irina Mocanu, and
Mihai Tr˘asc˘au
RealTrac Technology Overview .................................... 60
Alex Moschevikin, Aleksandr Galov, Alexei Soloviev,
Alexander Mikov, Alexander Volkov, and Sergey Reginya
Enhancements to the LOCOSmotion Person Tracking System.......... 72
Ngewi Fet, Marcus Handte, Stephan Wagner, and Pedro Jos´e Marr´on
AmbiTrack - Marker-free Indoor Localization and Tracking of Multiple
Users in Smart Environments with a Camera-basedApproach ......... 83
Andreas Braun and Tim Dutz
Mobile Robot Platform to track User Movement and Behaviour........ 94
Melvin Isken, Bjoern Borgmann, and Andreas Hein
A GPS/Wi-Fi/Marker Analysis Based Simultaneous and Hierarchical
Multi-Positioning System ......................................... 106
Akram Salem, Philippe Canalda, and Fran¸cois Spies
