Spot the Difference: A Novel Task for Embodied Agents in Changing Environments

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Auteurs principaux: Landi, Federico, Bigazzi, Roberto, Cornia, Marcella, Cascianelli, Silvia, Baraldi, Lorenzo, Cucchiara, Rita
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author Landi, Federico
Bigazzi, Roberto
Cornia, Marcella
Cascianelli, Silvia
Baraldi, Lorenzo
Cucchiara, Rita
author_facet Landi, Federico
Bigazzi, Roberto
Cornia, Marcella
Cascianelli, Silvia
Baraldi, Lorenzo
Cucchiara, Rita
contents Embodied AI is a recent research area that aims at creating intelligent agents that can move and operate inside an environment. Existing approaches in this field demand the agents to act in completely new and unexplored scenes. However, this setting is far from realistic use cases that instead require executing multiple tasks in the same environment. Even if the environment changes over time, the agent could still count on its global knowledge about the scene while trying to adapt its internal representation to the current state of the environment. To make a step towards this setting, we propose Spot the Difference: a novel task for Embodied AI where the agent has access to an outdated map of the environment and needs to recover the correct layout in a fixed time budget. To this end, we collect a new dataset of occupancy maps starting from existing datasets of 3D spaces and generating a number of possible layouts for a single environment. This dataset can be employed in the popular Habitat simulator and is fully compliant with existing methods that employ reconstructed occupancy maps during navigation. Furthermore, we propose an exploration policy that can take advantage of previous knowledge of the environment and identify changes in the scene faster and more effectively than existing agents. Experimental results show that the proposed architecture outperforms existing state-of-the-art models for exploration on this new setting.
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spellingShingle Spot the Difference: A Novel Task for Embodied Agents in Changing Environments
Landi, Federico
Bigazzi, Roberto
Cornia, Marcella
Cascianelli, Silvia
Baraldi, Lorenzo
Cucchiara, Rita
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
Embodied AI is a recent research area that aims at creating intelligent agents that can move and operate inside an environment. Existing approaches in this field demand the agents to act in completely new and unexplored scenes. However, this setting is far from realistic use cases that instead require executing multiple tasks in the same environment. Even if the environment changes over time, the agent could still count on its global knowledge about the scene while trying to adapt its internal representation to the current state of the environment. To make a step towards this setting, we propose Spot the Difference: a novel task for Embodied AI where the agent has access to an outdated map of the environment and needs to recover the correct layout in a fixed time budget. To this end, we collect a new dataset of occupancy maps starting from existing datasets of 3D spaces and generating a number of possible layouts for a single environment. This dataset can be employed in the popular Habitat simulator and is fully compliant with existing methods that employ reconstructed occupancy maps during navigation. Furthermore, we propose an exploration policy that can take advantage of previous knowledge of the environment and identify changes in the scene faster and more effectively than existing agents. Experimental results show that the proposed architecture outperforms existing state-of-the-art models for exploration on this new setting.
title Spot the Difference: A Novel Task for Embodied Agents in Changing Environments
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.08502