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NimbRo wins RoboCup 2026 Best Paper Award

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The University of Bonn's NimbRo@Home team won the RoboCup 2026 Best Paper Award for the paper "Efficient Image Annotation via Semi-Supervised Object Segmentation with Label Propagation." Team leader Raphael Memmesheimer said the research addresses the problem that at RoboCup competition venues there are only two days of preparation time, using semi-supervised object segmentation and label propagation to automatically annotate data, with about 60% of the data able to be annotated automatically. Memmesheimer said the method has already been used at RoboCup 2025 in Brazil and at RoboCup GermanOpen; it works well for 5 to 10 categories, but prompts alone make it difficult to distinguish all 50 categories.