Partner Event - OpenPositioning Annual Workshop

On behalf of Huawei UK R&D and in collaboration with The University of Edinburgh Engineering School, Huawei is excited to invite you to their annual OpenPositioning workshop and awards ceremony. The event will show case the opportunities and experiences of their industry engagement fostering innovation and helping students to sharpen their skills on their 5th year MEng programme.

Selected groups will demonstrate the solutions they have developed to support processing of smartphones sensors data for empowering indoor positioning research as part of OpenPositoning initiative. The workshop will highlight their contributions and show case current opportunities for what such applications can offer.

 

Click HERE or Registration to attend this event (Free of Charge) 

Event Schedule 

Time Topic Speaker
10:00 Opening - Challenges of device centric location awareness Dr. Firas Alsehly & Mr. Howy Shu @ Huawei
10:15

Developed by students for students - The OpenPositioning initiative

Dr Francisco Zampella @ Huawei

10:30 OpenPositioning - Selected student presentation Representatives students @ UoE
11:00 Short Break  
11:10

Multimodal ML based positioning and applications

Dr. Yinhuan Dong @ UoE

11:40

OpenPositioning - High contribution students presentation

Representatives students @ UoE

12:00 Are accuracies measured for indoor localisation systems credible? Francesco Potortì @ ISTI - CNR
12:30 Lunch Break  
13:30

Innovating Indoor Positioning with Advanced Computer Vision Technologies

Dr. Qingrui Pan

14:00

OpenPositioning - Best innovation students presentation

Representatives students @ UoE

14:20 Competition - Evaluation & Feedback Dr Francisco Zampella @ Huawei
14:40

Awards Ceremony & Closing

# Best Innovative Solution

# Best Contributors

Dr Firas Alsehly @ Huawei

Mr. Howy Shu (VP) @ Huawei

Prof Tughrul Arslan @ UoE