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The 2011 ILSVRC saw XRCE, the 2010 runner-up, win classification with compressed high-dimensional signatures and linear SVMs, while the new single-object localization task was won by UvA's selective search approach.
Kinect was Microsoft's motion-sensing, controller-free input device for the Xbox 360, released in November 2010. It used cameras and infrared depth sensing for gesture and skeletal tracking, and sold more than 8 million units in its first 60 days.
In October 2010 Google announced on its corporate blog that it had developed technology for cars that drive themselves, a project led by Sebastian Thrun and framed around safety, time and emissions.
In October 2010 Google said its self-driving cars had driven more than 140,000 miles on public roads, and reported that the only crash was a car rear-ended at a traffic light.
The spring 2010 release of ImageNet, announced by Fei-Fei Li on 11 May 2010, totalled more than 11 million images in 15,500 categories and added bounding boxes, SIFT features and a MATLAB toolbox, alongside a call to join ILSVRC2010.
On 13 April 2010, Fei-Fei Li announced the first ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, a 1,000-category image categorization benchmark. It ran for eight editions, from 2010 to 2017.
At ICDAR 2009, Alex Graves won three connected handwriting competitions — French, Farsi and Arabic — with LSTM networks trained using Connectionist Temporal Classification, the first time a recurrent neural network won an international contest.
On 10 February 2004 the W3C approved RDF and OWL as Recommendations, making the two Semantic Web specifications official Web standards for machine-readable data.
In January 2004 NASA's Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars carrying autonomous navigation software. The mission was planned around about one kilometre of driving; the rovers went much farther, with a large share of their early driving decided on Mars rather than on Earth.
On 1 November 2001 the W3C started the Web Ontology Working Group, which developed OWL and saw it become a W3C Recommendation on 10 February 2004, before closing in May 2004 having completed its charter.
In January 2000, Carnegie Mellon announced that its NASA-funded rover prototype Nomad was searching for meteorites in Antarctica, and that the public could follow the hunt through the Big Signal Web site. The BBC reported the expedition as the first time a robot found extraterrestrial material on Earth.
The first official RoboCup games and conference, held in 1997 as planned with IJCAI-97 in Nagoya, drew more than 40 real and simulated teams and over 5,000 spectators, and marked the first step toward robotic soccer players that could beat a human World Cup champion team.
Held in Osaka in November 1996 alongside IROS-96, Pre-RoboCup-96 was the first robot soccer competition aimed at research and education, with eight simulation-league teams and a middle-size robot demonstration; official RoboCup games followed in 1997.
At IJCAI-95 in Montreal in August 1995, organizers announced the first Robot World Cup, to be held with IJCAI-97 in Nagoya, and set up Pre-RoboCup-96 plus the Soccer Server simulator.
In June 1993, researchers including Minoru Asada, Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Hiroaki Kitano proposed a robot soccer competition tentatively called the Robot J-League. International interest soon led to its renaming as the Robot World Cup Initiative, or RoboCup.
In 1992, Alan Mackworth's paper on seeing robots and a Tokyo workshop on AI grand challenges independently put forward robot soccer as a way to drive AI and robotics research.
TD-Gammon was an IBM backgammon program built by Gerald Tesauro that taught itself to evaluate positions by playing against itself with temporal-difference learning, reaching a level just below top human players and becoming an early landmark for reinforcement learning.
The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) held its first meeting in Washington, DC in 1983, organised by Takeo Kanade and Dana H. Ballard. It became one of the central venues where computer vision research is presented and compared.
