[robocup-small] CFP: 3rd Semantic Robot Vision Challenge 2009

[Pooyan Fazli]

Call for Participation for the

THIRD SEMANTIC ROBOT VISION CHALLENGE - A Special Track of the ISVC 2009

http://www.semantic-robot-vision-challenge.org


The Semantic Robot Vision Challenge (SRVC) is a research competition that is
designed to advance the state of the art in embodied vision, active scene
understanding, and automatic acquisition of knowledge from the Internet.
This competition is an indoor robotic photo scavenger hunt. Teams will be
required to demonstrate a robot that has the ability to:

1. Read and parse a textual list of generic or specific objects to be found
in the environment. Examples from 2008 include “frying pan”, “upright vacuum
cleaner” and “Ritz Crackers”.

2. Autonomously connect to the Internet and build an object classification
database from images or other information related to the listed objects, in
a set amount of time.

3. Autonomously navigate and search the unknown environment with the task of
taking snapshots of the listed objects using the data acquired from the
Internet.

4. Return an image of each object type containing a single bounding box
around the pictured object.

Unlike with computer vision competitions, participants must address many
issues of embodied vision. Robots must recognize objects in lighting
conditions and configurations that can give them very unusual appearance,
but can use navigation to look at objects from angles that are close to the
canonical views used in Internet images. Also, as in the real world, scene
context can be used to guide the search for objects to areas which make the
most sense for them to be found (e.g. a stapler is usually found on a desk
rather than on the floor or on a wall). In this competition, objects in the
scene will be placed in a way that should improve recognition results for
robots that take advantage of scene context understanding.

Teams can choose to participate in one of two different leagues:

A. Robot league: Teams bring their own robot to participate in the event.

B. Software league: Teams bring only a computer to run their software. The
visual data is collected immediately before the event by a robot run by the
organizers.

We encourage anyone in these research fields to participate and help us to
advance the state of the art in embodied vision and scene understanding. At
the end of the competition, we will hold a workshop so that the specific
technical aspects of each entry can be presented and discussed. The
competition will be held at the 5th International Symposium on Visual
Computing (ISVC), which takes place in Las Vegas, Nevada, from November 30th
to December 2nd. For details see: http://www.isvc.net/


IMPORTANT DATES

Qualification Material Submission Deadline:  September 14, 2009
Acceptance Notification:                              September 28, 2009
ISVC09 Symposium:                                   November 30 - December
2, 2009
Competition Date:                                       December 1, 2009


See http://www.semantic-robot-vision-challenge.org for more details on
participation and qualification. If interested, subscribe to our email list!
Please send an email to Paul Rybski and Daniel DeMenthon if you would like
to participate.

Organizing committee:

Paul E. Rybski (prybski at cs.cmu.edu), Carnegie Mellon University, USA
Daniel DeMenthon (Daniel.DeMenthon at jhuapl.edu), Johns Hopkins University,
USA
Cornelia Fermuller (fer at umiacs.umd.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Pooyan Fazli (pooyanf at cs.ubc.ca), University of British Columbia, Canada
Ajay Mishra (mishraka at umiacs.umd.edu), University of Maryland, USA
Luis Seabra Lopes (lsl at ua.pt), Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Florian Roehrbein (roehrbei at informatik.uni-bremen.de), Universitaet Bremen,
Germany
David Gustafson (dag at ksu.edu), Kansas State University, USA





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Pooyan Fazli
PhD Student
Department of Computer Science,     Phone:  +1 (778) 883-1360
University of British Columbia,           pooyanf at cs.ubc.ca
Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4     http://www.cs.ubc.ca/~pooyanf
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