IROS 2010 - problem solving
For the upcoming IROS 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan, we decided to take it up a notch. 
Together with my colleagues Caroline Pantofaru, Gary Bradski, Wolfram Burgard, Trevor Darrell, Kurt Konolige, Nassir Navab, and Andrew Ng, we are organizing a different breed of a workshop… “Defining and Solving Realistic Perception Problems in Personal Robotics” will be all about nailing down some of those hard problems in perception that have been already solved by some of us/you, and hopefully sharing them to the rest of the community.
There are two main differences between the usual traditional workshops and this one:
- in the next few days, we will try to make available training and test datasets for two specific problems that the robotics community is now facing: 1) rigid object recognition and 2) people detection. We encourage submissions that can show results against these datasets. Submissions presenting similar problems using different data sources are obviously welcomed as well.
- validation of results: the organizing committee is eager to accept submissions that can show results that are reproducible. To do that, for the experimental datasets presented above, we will release a test set a few hours before the workshop. Participants are encouraged to try their algorithms/models on the test set (after have trained on the training set provided above). We aim at awarding the participants who manage to show accuracy results > 95% on the test set. We also encourage submissions that are willing to share their results as open source to the robotics community, and are willing to do a live demo on site.
We hope to see you all in Taiwan! With all these exciting workshops, we’re sure IROS will be awesome!