Title
Perceiving And Reasoning About Liquids Using Fully Convolutional Networks
Abstract
Liquids are an important part of many common manipulation tasks in human environments. If we wish to have robots that can accomplish these types of tasks, they must be able to interact with liquids in an intelligent manner. In this paper, we investigate ways for robots to perceive and reason about liquids. That is, a robot asks the questions What in the visual data stream is liquid? and How can I use that to infer all the potential places where liquid might be? We collected two data sets to evaluate these questions, one using a realistic liquid simulator and another using our robot. We used fully convolutional neural networks to learn to detect and track liquids across pouring sequences. Our results show that these networks are able to perceive and reason about liquids, and that integrating temporal information is important to performing such tasks well.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1177/0278364917734052
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ROBOTICS RESEARCH
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Detection and tracking, image segmentation, liquid learning
Journal
37
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4-5
0278-3649
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
19
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Connor Schenck1825.67
Dieter Fox2123061289.74