Mapping High-level Semantic Regions in Indoor Environments without Object Recognition

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Hauptverfasser: Bigazzi, Roberto, Baraldi, Lorenzo, Kousik, Shreyas, Cucchiara, Rita, Pavone, Marco
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Veröffentlicht: 2024
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author Bigazzi, Roberto
Baraldi, Lorenzo
Kousik, Shreyas
Cucchiara, Rita
Pavone, Marco
author_facet Bigazzi, Roberto
Baraldi, Lorenzo
Kousik, Shreyas
Cucchiara, Rita
Pavone, Marco
contents Robots require a semantic understanding of their surroundings to operate in an efficient and explainable way in human environments. In the literature, there has been an extensive focus on object labeling and exhaustive scene graph generation; less effort has been focused on the task of purely identifying and mapping large semantic regions. The present work proposes a method for semantic region mapping via embodied navigation in indoor environments, generating a high-level representation of the knowledge of the agent. To enable region identification, the method uses a vision-to-language model to provide scene information for mapping. By projecting egocentric scene understanding into the global frame, the proposed method generates a semantic map as a distribution over possible region labels at each location. This mapping procedure is paired with a trained navigation policy to enable autonomous map generation. The proposed method significantly outperforms a variety of baselines, including an object-based system and a pretrained scene classifier, in experiments in a photorealistic simulator.
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spellingShingle Mapping High-level Semantic Regions in Indoor Environments without Object Recognition
Bigazzi, Roberto
Baraldi, Lorenzo
Kousik, Shreyas
Cucchiara, Rita
Pavone, Marco
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robots require a semantic understanding of their surroundings to operate in an efficient and explainable way in human environments. In the literature, there has been an extensive focus on object labeling and exhaustive scene graph generation; less effort has been focused on the task of purely identifying and mapping large semantic regions. The present work proposes a method for semantic region mapping via embodied navigation in indoor environments, generating a high-level representation of the knowledge of the agent. To enable region identification, the method uses a vision-to-language model to provide scene information for mapping. By projecting egocentric scene understanding into the global frame, the proposed method generates a semantic map as a distribution over possible region labels at each location. This mapping procedure is paired with a trained navigation policy to enable autonomous map generation. The proposed method significantly outperforms a variety of baselines, including an object-based system and a pretrained scene classifier, in experiments in a photorealistic simulator.
title Mapping High-level Semantic Regions in Indoor Environments without Object Recognition
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07076