Title
Online Learning of Reusable Abstract Models for Object Goal Navigation
Abstract
In this paper, we present a novel approach to incrementally learn an Abstract Model of an unknown environment, and show how an agent can reuse the learned model for tackling the Object Goal Navigation task. The Abstract Model is a finite state machine in which each state is an abstraction of a state of the environment, as perceived by the agent in a certain position and orientation. The perceptions are high-dimensional sensory data (e.g., RGB-D images), and the abstraction is reached by exploiting image segmentation and the Taskonomy model bank. The learning of the Abstract Model is accomplished by executing actions, observing the reached state, and updating the Abstract Model with the acquired information. The learned models are memorized by the agent, and they are reused whenever it recognizes to be in an environment that corresponds to the stored model. We investigate the effectiveness of the proposed approach for the Object Goal Navigation task, relying on public benchmarks. Our results show that the reuse of learned Abstract Models can boost performance on Object Goal Navigation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/CVPR52688.2022.01445
IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Robot vision, Navigation and autonomous driving, Others, Vision applications and systems
Conference
2022
Issue
Citations 
PageRank 
1
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tommaso Campari100.34
Leonardo Lamanna201.35
Paolo Traverso33483223.80
Luciano Serafini42230204.36
Lamberto Ballan500.34