%0 Journal Article %T Semantic Robot Vision Challenge: Current State and Future Directions %A Scott Helmer %A David Meger %A Pooja Viswanathan %A Sancho McCann %A Matthew Dockrey %A Pooyan Fazli %A Tristram Southey %A Marius Muja %A Michael Joya %A Jim Little %A David Lowe %A Alan Mackworth %J Computer Science %D 2009 %I arXiv %X The Semantic Robot Vision Competition provided an excellent opportunity for our research lab to integrate our many ideas under one umbrella, inspiring both collaboration and new research. The task, visual search for an unknown object, is relevant to both the vision and robotics communities. Moreover, since the interplay of robotics and vision is sometimes ignored, the competition provides a venue to integrate two communities. In this paper, we outline a number of modifications to the competition to both improve the state-of-the-art and increase participation. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.2656v1