IMRA's Contribution to Semantic Robot Vision Challenge

Software League version was tested with official 2007/2008 datasets having 57% (100% specific, 10% generic) and 50% (90% specific, 10% generic) respectively. Currently the only available version was tested is the one under Windows XP/Vista. Special structure of folders (example included) should be maintained in order to keep consistency of the software. The source code is composed of two parts: Internet search and object recognition. The software league mode is written in perl and C++ as VS2005 project. Several freely available libraries and software components are needed to run our code properly. You may use our code providing that you acknowledge its original authors and provide a link to this page, according to the following: This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

bin\ - folder where executable has to be stored

data2\start_point.bat - start point, which is the only thing one may need to run both training and test phases of SRVC08 software league application (once the sources code is compiled and libraries are configured).

data2\IMRA_Robot.html - is a GUI that displays main aspects of software's progress during test stage.

Detailed instructions on all steps required to compile and run the software can be found in install_guide.html, which is packaged along with source code.

Current parameters were set to download, learn and test 20 objects (40 training images per object) during 1 hour while having 2.4GHz (Core2), 2Gb RAM PC and 2Mb bandwidth. The simplest way to reduce/increase processing time is to change number of images per object in start_point.bat (for example replace 20/40 by 10/20 to reduce computational time by 2). Otherwise min_size of ROI (RegionOfInterest.cpp) must be increased in order to decrease total number of ROIs.

Due to copyright reasons the following modules, which were used at SRVC08 by IMRA team are not included into the source code: stereo camera interface (PtGrey SDK), VGA and 5M camera interfaces (Matrox SDK), navigation (Mobile Robots SDK).