TheSemanticRobotVisionChallenge < LCI

---+ The Semantic Robot Vision Challenge

---++NEWS

   * Meetings are Thursdays, at 11:30, in icics 146.

---++ Some Stuff

   * The [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~prybski/SRVC/][Rules page]] at CMU

   * Dave Meger's whiteboard transcription [[%ATTACHURL%/subTasks.pdf][subTasks.pdf]]

   * Sequence from Bart [[%ATTACHURL%/right.mpg][right.mpg]]

   * Stereo processing of sequence [[%ATTACHURL%/stereo.mpg][stereo.mpg]]

   * Sample images from 1.3m height [[%ATTACHURL%/cat01.png][cat01.png]] [[%ATTACHURL%/heli03.png][heli03.png]] [[%ATTACHURL%/keg01.png][keg01.png]] [[%ATTACHURL%/robo03.png][robo03.png]]

   * A data-set of 31 views of objects captured from Bart.
      * look under =/lci/project/raid1/srvc/bumblebee1=
      * =frameXX_depth0.png= Raw disparity image from PGR library
      * =frameXX_depth.png=  Scaled disparity image to look at :-)
      * =frameXX_left.png=   Left frame =1024x768= RGB
      * =frameXX_right.png=  Right frame =1024x798= RGB
      * Here is a composite showing these four images: [[%ATTACHURL%/bumblebee1_example.png][bumblebee1_example.png]]

   * Canon capture library at sourceforge: http://capture.sourceforge.net/
      * I've (Scott) installed the software and tried using it with my Canon A70. I haven't tried all the features, but it was fairly straightforward to zoom, use the flash, and capture and download a photo. Not wickedly fast though.

   * An unintelligent Google image search shell script: [[%ATTACHURL%/fetcher.sh][fetcher.sh]] *Updated April 14*
      * Usage: ./fetcher "search string" num_pages
      * Examples:
         * To search for tiger and get the first three pages of results: ./fetcher "tiger" 3
         * To search for tiger and woods: ./fetcher "tiger woods" 3
         * To search for the exact phrase "tiger woods": ./fetcher "\"tiger woods\"" 3
         * To search for tiger with no mention of woods: ./fetcher "tiger -woods" 3
      * The script will create a folder named similarly to the search string and place the images returned on the first page of Google's image search into the folder. If two images have the same name, the first one will be saved normally (i.e. image.jpg), but the next one will be saved with an extra number (i.e. image.jpg.1).

   * I have set up a Subversion (SVN) repository which can act as a central location for our project code. 
      * The repository is located at =/lci/project/raid1/srvc/SVN/=. 
      * Only members of the Unix group =srvc= can access this location. Many of the team are already members of this group. Please contact me (Dave Meger) or mail help@cs.ubc.ca if you'd like to be added. 
      * During our initial development, I have proposed separating the repository based on the rough structure our teams seem to be taking on. Please add your code under the appropriate folder, and organize the lower-levels as you see fit. This can easily be changed in the future, but currently the top-level directories are:
         * CLASSIFY
         * DOC
         * ROBOT
         * WEB
      * To get started, look at a brief tutorial: [[SRVC SVN Tutorial]]. Also, the Subversion book listed below is a good reference for those getting started with SVN. If you require a more detailed explanation, ask a team member, or we can run through a quick demo in a weekly meeting.


---++ Organization stuff

   * [[http://svnbook.red-bean.com/][Version Control with Subversion]] - A free online book about using subversion
   * [[http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/index.html][Doxygen documentation system]]

---++ Image libraries
   * [[http://http://opensource.adobe.com/gil/][Adobe Generic Image Library (GIL)]]
      * Accepted for inclusion in the [[http://www.boost.org][Boost C++ Library]]
      * Write generic algorithms that will work for any image type
      * Nice online presentation by the lead developer here: [[http://opensource.adobe.com/gil/presentation/index.htm][GIL Presentation]]
      * Library does not include pre-written algorithms like !OpenCV, or VXL
   * [[http://vxl.sourceforge.net/][VXL]]
   * [[http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~koethe/vigra/][VIGRA]]
      * The original generic image processing library
      * See [[http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~koethe/papers/handbook.ps.gz][Reusable software in computer vision]] and [[http://kogs-www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/~koethe/papers/GenericProg2DC++Report.ps.gz][STL-style generic programming with images]] for the original motivation for generic image libraries.
      * Much like GIL, but without support from something like Adobe
      * Does include collection of low-level processing algorithms

------++ Comments

---++ Minutes and Whiteboard Shots

   * Feb 14, 2008 [[%ATTACHURL%/DSCN0031.JPG][1]]
   * Feb 7, 2008 [[%ATTACHURL%/DSCN0014.JPG][1]] [[%ATTACHURL%/DSCN0015.JPG][2]]
   * Jan 31, 2008 [[%ATTACHURL%/DSCN0011.JPG][1]] [[%ATTACHURL%/DSCN0012.JPG][2]]
   * Feb 16, 2007 [[%ATTACHURL%/SRVChallengeMinutes-February16.pdf][pdf]]

---++ Team Members

   * Scott Helmer
   * Per-Erik Forssen
   * Simon Leonard
   * Julia Vogel
   * Kenji Okuma
   * Pooyan Fazli
   * Ara
   * Dave Meger
   * Sancho Mccann
   * Tristram Southey
   * Marius
   * Matt Baumann
   * Matthew Dockrey


Feel free to add anything related to the challenge here.

-- Main.PerErikForssen - 07 Feb 2007

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jpg	DSCN0011.JPG	r1	manage	1667.6 K	2008-02-14 - 20:58	MatthewDockrey	Jan 31 Whiteboard 1
jpg	DSCN0012.JPG	r1	manage	1653.7 K	2008-02-14 - 20:58	MatthewDockrey	Jan 31 Whiteboard 2
jpg	DSCN0014.JPG	r1	manage	1661.1 K	2008-02-14 - 20:59	MatthewDockrey	Feb 7 Whiteboard 1
jpg	DSCN0015.JPG	r1	manage	1678.4 K	2008-02-14 - 21:00	MatthewDockrey	Feb 7 Whiteboard 2
jpg	DSCN0031.JPG	r1	manage	1650.7 K	2008-02-14 - 21:00	MatthewDockrey	Feb 14 Whiteboard
pdf	SRVChallengeMinutes-February16.pdf	r1	manage	4.3 K	2007-02-21 - 06:17	SanchoMcCann	February 16 minutes
png	bumblebee1_example.png	r1	manage	295.5 K	2007-03-07 - 00:25	PerErikForssen	Example of scene from dataset bumblebee1
png	cat01.png	r1	manage	1093.1 K	2007-02-17 - 00:39	PerErikForssen	sample image
sh	fetcher.sh	r1	manage	0.6 K	2007-03-02 - 21:46	SanchoMcCann	bash shell script that uses wget and gawk to gather images from the first page of a google image search and dump them to a folder
png	heli03.png	r1	manage	1100.5 K	2007-02-17 - 00:40	PerErikForssen	sample image
png	keg01.png	r1	manage	1093.4 K	2007-02-17 - 00:40	PerErikForssen	sample image
mpg	right.mpg	r1	manage	5888.8 K	2007-02-17 - 00:14	PerErikForssen	640x480 robot sequence
png	robo03.png	r1	manage	1112.4 K	2007-02-17 - 00:41	PerErikForssen	sample image
mpg	stereo.mpg	r1	manage	5432.7 K	2007-02-17 - 00:14	PerErikForssen	stereo from robot sequence
pdf	subTasks.pdf	r1	manage	287.7 K	2007-02-07 - 23:47	PerErikForssen	Table from Dave Meger

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