iCub World: Friendly Robots Help Building Good Vision Data-Sets

Sean Ryan Fanello, Carlo Ciliberto, Matteo Santoro, Lorenzo Natale, Giorgio Metta, Lorenzo Rosasco, Francesca Odone

Abstract: In this paper we present and start analyzing the iCub World data-set, an object recognition data-set, we acquired using a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scheme and the iCub humanoid robot platform. Our set up allows for rapid acquisition and annotation of data with corresponding ground truth. While more constrained in its scopes -- the iCub world is essentially a robotics research lab -- we demonstrate how the proposed data-set poses challenges to current recognition systems. The iCubWorld data-set is publicly available.