DRAGON: A Dialogue-Based Robot for Assistive Navigation with Visual Language Grounding

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Autori principali: Liu, Shuijing, Hasan, Aamir, Hong, Kaiwen, Wang, Runxuan, Chang, Peixin, Mizrachi, Zachary, Lin, Justin, McPherson, D. Livingston, Rogers, Wendy A., Driggs-Campbell, Katherine
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author Liu, Shuijing
Hasan, Aamir
Hong, Kaiwen
Wang, Runxuan
Chang, Peixin
Mizrachi, Zachary
Lin, Justin
McPherson, D. Livingston
Rogers, Wendy A.
Driggs-Campbell, Katherine
author_facet Liu, Shuijing
Hasan, Aamir
Hong, Kaiwen
Wang, Runxuan
Chang, Peixin
Mizrachi, Zachary
Lin, Justin
McPherson, D. Livingston
Rogers, Wendy A.
Driggs-Campbell, Katherine
contents Persons with visual impairments (PwVI) have difficulties understanding and navigating spaces around them. Current wayfinding technologies either focus solely on navigation or provide limited communication about the environment. Motivated by recent advances in visual-language grounding and semantic navigation, we propose DRAGON, a guiding robot powered by a dialogue system and the ability to associate the environment with natural language. By understanding the commands from the user, DRAGON is able to guide the user to the desired landmarks on the map, describe the environment, and answer questions from visual observations. Through effective utilization of dialogue, the robot can ground the user's free-form descriptions to landmarks in the environment, and give the user semantic information through spoken language. We conduct a user study with blindfolded participants in an everyday indoor environment. Our results demonstrate that DRAGON is able to communicate with the user smoothly, provide a good guiding experience, and connect users with their surrounding environment in an intuitive manner. Videos and code are available at https://sites.google.com/view/dragon-wayfinding/home.
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spellingShingle DRAGON: A Dialogue-Based Robot for Assistive Navigation with Visual Language Grounding
Liu, Shuijing
Hasan, Aamir
Hong, Kaiwen
Wang, Runxuan
Chang, Peixin
Mizrachi, Zachary
Lin, Justin
McPherson, D. Livingston
Rogers, Wendy A.
Driggs-Campbell, Katherine
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
Persons with visual impairments (PwVI) have difficulties understanding and navigating spaces around them. Current wayfinding technologies either focus solely on navigation or provide limited communication about the environment. Motivated by recent advances in visual-language grounding and semantic navigation, we propose DRAGON, a guiding robot powered by a dialogue system and the ability to associate the environment with natural language. By understanding the commands from the user, DRAGON is able to guide the user to the desired landmarks on the map, describe the environment, and answer questions from visual observations. Through effective utilization of dialogue, the robot can ground the user's free-form descriptions to landmarks in the environment, and give the user semantic information through spoken language. We conduct a user study with blindfolded participants in an everyday indoor environment. Our results demonstrate that DRAGON is able to communicate with the user smoothly, provide a good guiding experience, and connect users with their surrounding environment in an intuitive manner. Videos and code are available at https://sites.google.com/view/dragon-wayfinding/home.
title DRAGON: A Dialogue-Based Robot for Assistive Navigation with Visual Language Grounding
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Human-Computer Interaction
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.06924