Title
Unsupervised learning approach to attention-path planning for large-scale environment classification
Abstract
An unsupervised attention-path planning algorithm is proposed and applied to large unknown area classification with small field-of-view cameras. Attention-path planning is formulated as the sequential feature selection problem that greedily finds a sequence of attentions to obtain more informative observations, yielding faster training and higher accuracies. In order to find the near-optimal attention-path, adaptive submodular optimization is employed, where the objective function for the internal belief is adaptive submodular and adaptive monotone. First, the amount of information of attention areas is modeled as the dissimilarity variance among the environment data set. With this model, the information gain function is defined as a function of variance reduction that has been shown to be submodular and monotone in many cases. Furthermore, adapting to increasing numbers of observations, each information gain for attention areas is iteratively updated by discarding the non-informative prior knowledge, enabling to maximize the expected information gain. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is verified through experiments that can significantly enhance the environment classification accuracy, with reduced number of limited field of view observations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1109/IROS.2014.6942747
IROS
Keywords
Field
DocType
optimisation,unsupervised attention-path planning algorithm,adaptive submodular monotone,sequential feature selection problem,noninformative prior knowledge,mobile robots,dissimilarity variance,small field-of-view cameras,image classification,path planning,cameras,feature selection,unsupervised learning approach,adaptive submodular optimization,unsupervised learning,variance reduction function,robot vision,large-scale environment classification,near-optimal attention-path
Motion planning,Computer vision,Computer science,Unsupervised learning,Artificial intelligence,Machine learning
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
2153-0858
2
0.38
References 
Authors
11
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Hosun Lee1104.66
Sungmoon Jeong29915.05
Nak Young Chong340356.29