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RobotVision@ICPR | ImageCLEF - Image Retrieval in CLEF
The RobotVision task has been proposed to the ImageCLEF participants for the first time in 2009. The task attracted considerable attention, with 19 inscribed research groups, 7 groups eventually participating and a total of 27 submitted runs. The second edition of the RobotVision task will be part of the ImageCLEF@ICPR contest introducing new interesting challenges to the pattern recognition community.
The second edition of the RobotVision task addresses the problem of visual place classification. Specifically, participants will be asked to classify rooms and areas on the basis of image sequences, captured by a stereo camera mounted on a mobile robot within an office environment, under varying illumination conditions. The system built by the participants should be able to answer the question "where are you?" when presented with a test sequence imaging rooms seen during training (from different viewpoints and under different conditions) or additional rooms that were not imaged in the training sequence.
RobotCafe.com : Software : Simulators
Links to a bunch of robotics simulation environments
Ullman's Visual Routines x CMU Tekkotsu's Sketches
Describes some of the resources available in CMU Tekkotsu robotics simulator and how they relate to Ullman's Visual Routines
Tekkotsu: Cognitive Robotics
NOTE: their definition of cognitive robotics is a little off
... extending Tekkotsu to support higher level abstractions for robot programming. We call our approach "cognitive robotics" because it draws inspiration from ideas in cognitive science, such as Ullman's notion of "visual routines", Paivio's "dual coding theory", and Gibson's concept of "affordances". Cognitive robotics makes no strong theoretical claims, but instead focuses on developing technology that actually works, on real robots, with their inherent physical constraints and sensory limitations.
Tekkotsu: open source robotics software
Tekkotsu is an open source framework supporting software development for a variety of robotic platforms.
[Imageworld] CFP: 3rd Semantic Robot Vision Challenge 2009
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.
High-Speed Robot Hand Demonstrates Dexterity and Skillful Manipulation | Hizook
A few blogs are passing around videos of the Ishikawa Komuro Lab's high-speed robot hand performing impressive acts of dexterity and skillful manipulation. However, the video being passed around is slight on details. Meanwhile, their video presentation at ICRA 2009 (which took place in May in Kobe, Japan) has an informative narration and demonstrates additional capabilities. I have included this video below, which shows the manipulator dribbling a ping-pong ball, spinning a pen, throwing a ball, tying knots, grasping a grain of rice with tweezers, and tossing / re-grasping a cellphone!
3. Bio-inspired Flying Robots (EPFL Video for AAAI 08 contest)
They show fly-inspired robots using linear cameras that go around based on optical flow.
"In this video we present bio-inspiration as the main drive for the design of platforms, autonomous navigation strategies and aerial swarming for flying robots."
Semantic Robot Vision Challenge (december 2009)
Will take place as part of the international symposium of visual computing
Robot Perception and Learning: MIT CSAIL Technical Report: Scene Classification with a Biologically Inspired Method
We present a biologically motivated method for scene image classification. The core of the method is to use shape based image property that is provided by a hierarchical feedforward model of the visual cortex [18]. Edge based and color based image properties are additionally used to improve the accuracy.
The CoSy Architecture Schema Toolkit
s part of the CoSy project we have developed a software toolkit to support the developments of intelligent systems based on a space of possible architecture designs. We have developed the CoSy Architecture Schema (CAS) to describe this space of designs. The CoSy Architecture Schema Toolkit (CAST) is a software implementation of this schema designed to allow researchers (primarily in the fields of AI and robotics) to develop instantiations of the schema. The toolkit supports C++ and Java, and provides a communication framework for distributing an instantiation across a network. It's primary scientific purpose is to maintain a separation between a system's architecture and the content of it's architecture, allowing one to be varied independently of the other.
YouTube - Festo Bionic Learning Network 2009
Great robotic swimming penguins. At around 1:20 there's nice control experiments done with robotic blimp-like penguins.
Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory at MIT - bioinspired robots
Here at the Hatsopoulos Microfluids Laboratory at MIT, we
study instabilities in viscous flows, low Reynolds number locomotion
and bioinspired design under the guidance of Professor Anette "Peko"
Hosoi.
AI-SIMCOG: a simulator for spiking neurons and multiple animats’ behaviours (SpringerLink - Journal Article)
Designing a biologically inspired neural architecture as a
controller for a complete animat or physical robot environment, to test
the hypotheses on intelligence or cognition is non-trivial,
particularly, if the controller is a network of spiking neurons.
Kiva Systems
Fully robot-automated warehouse operation, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWsMdN7HMuA
Developmental Robotics - FrontPage
Developmental Robotics is a new approach in artificial
intelligence and robotics that focuses on the autonomous
self-organization of general-purpose, task nonspecific control systems.
It takes its inspiration from developmental psychology and
developmenta
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