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Juan 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 123 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 1 3 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 ISBN978-3-642-41042-0 e-ISBN978-3-642-41043-7 DOI10.1007/978-3-642-41043-7 SpringerHeidelbergNewYorkDordrechtLondon LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2013948093 CRSubjectClassification(1998):C.4,C.3,K.4,I.2.10,I.4,C.2,C.5,H.4,J.3,J.2 ©Springer-VerlagBerlinHeidelberg2013 Thisworkissubjecttocopyright.AllrightsarereservedbythePublisher,whetherthewholeorpartof thematerialisconcerned,specificallytherightsoftranslation,reprinting,reuseofillustrations,recitation, broadcasting,reproductiononmicrofilmsorinanyotherphysicalway,andtransmissionorinformation storageandretrieval,electronicadaptation,computersoftware,orbysimilarordissimilarmethodology nowknownorhereafterdeveloped.Exemptedfromthislegalreservationarebriefexcerptsinconnection withreviewsorscholarlyanalysisormaterialsuppliedspecificallyforthepurposeofbeingenteredand executedonacomputersystem,forexclusiveusebythepurchaserofthework.Duplicationofthispublication orpartsthereofispermittedonlyundertheprovisionsoftheCopyrightLawofthePublisher’slocation, inistcurrentversion,andpermissionforusemustalwaysbeobtainedfromSpringer.Permissionsforuse maybeobtainedthroughRightsLinkattheCopyrightClearanceCenter.Violationsareliabletoprosecution undertherespectiveCopyrightLaw. Theuseofgeneraldescriptivenames,registerednames,trademarks,servicemarks,etc.inthispublication doesnotimply,evenintheabsenceofaspecificstatement,thatsuchnamesareexemptfromtherelevant protectivelawsandregulationsandthereforefreeforgeneraluse. Whiletheadviceandinformationinthisbookarebelievedtobetrueandaccurateatthedateofpublication, neithertheauthorsnortheeditorsnorthepublishercanacceptanylegalresponsibilityforanyerrorsor omissionsthatmaybemade.Thepublishermakesnowarranty,expressorimplied,withrespecttothe materialcontainedherein. Typesetting:Camera-readybyauthor,dataconversionbyScientificPublishingServices,Chennai,India Printedonacid-freepaper SpringerispartofSpringerScience+BusinessMedia(www.springer.com) 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 VI Preface 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, Asus Xtion and joiiup. 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 VIII Organization 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. meGha Asus Xtion joiiup 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
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