Curious George

Curious George is the UBC LCI entry that placed first in the robot league of the Semantic Robot Vision Challenge for both 2007 and 2008. The 2008 team along with our robot, Curious George are shown below:

Team

Team members at the 2008 Semantic Robot Vision Challenge were (in the order shown in the above picture): Sancho McCann Matt Dockrey, Scott Helmer, Marius Muja, Pooja Viswanathan, David Meger, Jim Little, (and those not shown in the picture): Tristram Southey, Michael Joya, and David Lowe.

Team members at the 2007 Semantic Robot Vision Challenge include: Per-Erik Forssén, David Meger, Scott Helmer, Sancho McCann, Tristram Southey, Matthew Baumann, Kevin Lai, Bruce Dow, Jim Little, and David Lowe.

Team Info

The UBC Curious George team was formed to evaluate and demonstrate state-of-the-art recognition systems under realistic robotic scenarios. Our team members are pursuing technology to allow a robot to recognizer a large number of visual object classes autonomously and robustly. We are targetting this technology towards applications such as home robotics, elder care, and tour guide robots which can communicate with humans in the language of visual objects. The Semantic Robot Vision Challenge has been our current test bed for this technology. This contest involved recognition of visual objects in an environment constructed by the contest organizers (such as the one seen below), using training imagery available on the internet.

Publications

Curious George: An Attentive Semantic Robot RAS Journal paper
Informed Visual Search: Combining Attention and Object Recognition, ICRA08
The UBC Semantic Robot Vision System, AAAI07: 2 page abstract
Curious George: An Attentive Semantic Robot, IROS07 workshop paper
Curious George: The UBC Semantic Robot Vision System, AAAI technical report

Media

2008 Contest Related:

Slides from CVPR 2008 SRVC Workshop Presentation
Poster displayed at CVPR 2008 SRVC Demo
Technical abstract

2007 Contest Related:

Published Source Code

2009 UBC SRVC Entry - ROS Stack
Source code from the 2008 UBC SRVC Entry
Source code from the 2007 UBC SRVC Entry