Curious George: The UBC Semantic Robot Vision System

This report describes the robot, Curious George, that took part in, and won, the robot league of the 2007 Semantic Robot Vision Challenge (SRVC), held at the AAAI’07 conference in Vancouver, Canada. We describe the robot hardware, the algorithms used during each of the three competition phases, as well as the results obtained by the system during the competition.

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