Dear Virtual Robot Competitors,
I’m from the School of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. We have a long history of competing in RoboCup, particular the Standard Platform League in soccer, RoboCup Rescue and RoboCup@Home.
We’re currently in the process of starting a new team to hopefully compete in the RoboCup Rescue Virtual Robots Competition next year (2022) and have spent a few months familiarising ourselves with the competition. However, we could do with some help and guidance.
I have put together a team of undergraduate students from my university who are interested in participating in the competition The students have spent the better half of this year investigating more about the competition and trying to learn the technical skills needed including ROS, Gazebo, etc. A group of students from the team are focusing on the object recognition part of the competition and experimenting with technologies such as YOLO and Detectron2 to detect victims in the maps. We went through papers from the past few year submitted by previous participating teams and noticed that most of them use a dataset of victims to train their image recognition models. However, we could not find the source of the datasets anywhere in the papers, internet or the RoboCup website. We did find some soccer datasets but none is specific for the object recognition task.
Would someone be able to let me know if there are any such technical datasets/resources that we can access to assist with our participation in the competition next year?
I also noticed that training workshops were held for some of the previous iterations of this competition. Is there any such training workshop(s) planned for next year or can we access the material from one of the previous workshops?
Lastly, if anyone from the community would be interested in presenting to our group over videoconference at some point, we would be very grateful.
Thanks and best wishes to all,
Morri.
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Professor Maurice Pagnucco
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