Title
Robust object estimation using generative-discriminative inference for secure robotics applications
Abstract
Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) are of increasing widespread use in robotics, especially for object recognition. However, such CNNs still lack several critical properties necessary for robots to properly perceive and function autonomously in uncertain, and potentially adversarial, environments. In this paper, we investigate factors for accurate, reliable, and resource-efficient object and pose recognition suitable for robotic manipulation in adversarial clutter. Our exploration is in the context of a three-stage pipeline of discriminative CNN-based recognition, generative probabilistic estimation, and robot manipulation. This pipeline proposes using a SAmpling Network Density filter, or SAND filter, to recover from potentially erroneous decisions produced by a CNN through generative probabilistic inference. We present experimental results from SAND filter perception for robotic manipulation in tabletop scenes with both benign and adversarial clutter. These experiments vary CNN model complexity for object recognition and evaluate levels of inaccuracy that can be recovered by generative pose inference. This scenario is extended to consider adversarial environmental modifications with varied lighting, occlusions, and surface modifications.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1145/3240765.3243493
ICCAD-IEEE ACM International Conference on Computer-Aided Design
Keywords
Field
DocType
Robust machine learning,Robot perception,DNN adversarial attack
Object detection,Inference,Convolutional neural network,Computer science,Real-time computing,Artificial intelligence,Artificial neural network,Robot,Discriminative model,Machine learning,Robotics,Cognitive neuroscience of visual object recognition
Conference
ISSN
ISBN
Citations 
1933-7760
978-1-4503-5950-4
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
22
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yanqi Liu102.37
Alessandro Costantini26914.13
R. Iris Bahar387884.31
Zhiqiang Sui4144.66
Zhefan Ye500.68
shiyang lu642.12
Odest Jenkins787479.07