Travel Scholarships for the Semantic Robot Vision Challenge

语义机器人挑战赛是一场机器人的照片寻宝活动。配备多个摄像头和激光距离扫描仪的竞争对手移动机器人平台会收到一份散落在家具或会议室地板上的物体的文本清单。他们可以通过连接到互联网并找到这些物体的图像来了解这些物体应该是什么样子。然后，他们必须自主搜索环境，尽可能多地拍摄对象的快照，在图片中的对象周围添加边界框并对其进行标记。获胜者是给数量最多的物体拍照的机器人，它具有正确的包围框和标签(由人类评委根据明确定义的规则进行评估)。这场比赛挑战团队成功地实施大量人类将用来完成相同任务的策略。成功的机器人能够进行导航、探索、避障和地图绘制、周边视觉、中心凹视觉、多视角观察、自下而上的特征检测和自上而下的目标模型验证。PI是第三届语义机器人视觉挑战赛(SRVC)的组委会成员，该NSF奖为所有参赛团队提供旅行奖学金。这项挑战计划于2009年12月1日在拉斯维加斯举行的第五届视觉计算国际研讨会(ISVC09)的特别赛道上进行。第一次SRVC活动于2007年在加拿大不列颠哥伦比亚省温哥华举行的AAAI会议上举行。第二届SRVC活动于2008年在阿拉斯加安克雷奇的CVPR组织。为参赛队伍提供旅行支持的做法已经被证明是对参赛队伍的极大鼓励，并在过去的两次SRVC赛事中得到了实施。语义机器人视觉挑战赛的网站是http://www.semantic-robot-vision-challenge.org/

The Semantic Robot Challenge is a photo treasure hunt for robots. Competing mobile robot platforms equipped with multiple cameras and laser range scanners are given a text list of objects dispersed on furniture or on the floor in a conference room. They can learn about what the objects are supposed to look like by connecting to the Internet and finding images of them. Then they have to autonomously search the environment and take snapshots of as many objects as they can, adding bounding boxes around the objects in the pictures and labeling them. The winner is the robot that takes pictures of the largest number of objects, with correct bounding boxes and labels (evaluated by human judges according to well-defined rules). This competition challenges the teams to successfully implement a large number of strategies that humans would use to accomplish the same task. Successful robots are able to perform navigation, exploration, obstacle avoidance and mapping, peripheral vision, foveal vision, observation from multiple viewpoints, bottom-up feature detection and top-down object model verification.The PI is with the organizing committee of the Third Semantic Robot Vision Challenge (SRVC), and this NSF award supports travel scholarships for all participating teams. This challenge is scheduled to take place as a Special Track of the Fifth International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC09) in Las Vegas on December 1, 2009. The first SRVC event took place at the AAAI Conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada in 2007. The second SRVC event was organized at CVPR in Anchorage, Alaska in 2008. The practice of providing travel support to participating teams has been shown to provide a great encouragement for teams to attend, and it was implemented for the past two SRVC events.The web site for the Semantic Robot Vision Challenge is http://www.semantic-robot-vision-challenge.org/