AdaGlimpse: Active Visual Exploration with Arbitrary Glimpse Position and Scale

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Main Authors: Pardyl, Adam, Wronka, Michał, Wołczyk, Maciej, Adamczewski, Kamil, Trzciński, Tomasz, Zieliński, Bartosz
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Published: 2024
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author Pardyl, Adam
Wronka, Michał
Wołczyk, Maciej
Adamczewski, Kamil
Trzciński, Tomasz
Zieliński, Bartosz
author_facet Pardyl, Adam
Wronka, Michał
Wołczyk, Maciej
Adamczewski, Kamil
Trzciński, Tomasz
Zieliński, Bartosz
contents Active Visual Exploration (AVE) is a task that involves dynamically selecting observations (glimpses), which is critical to facilitate comprehension and navigation within an environment. While modern AVE methods have demonstrated impressive performance, they are constrained to fixed-scale glimpses from rigid grids. In contrast, existing mobile platforms equipped with optical zoom capabilities can capture glimpses of arbitrary positions and scales. To address this gap between software and hardware capabilities, we introduce AdaGlimpse. It uses Soft Actor-Critic, a reinforcement learning algorithm tailored for exploration tasks, to select glimpses of arbitrary position and scale. This approach enables our model to rapidly establish a general awareness of the environment before zooming in for detailed analysis. Experimental results demonstrate that AdaGlimpse surpasses previous methods across various visual tasks while maintaining greater applicability in realistic AVE scenarios.
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spellingShingle AdaGlimpse: Active Visual Exploration with Arbitrary Glimpse Position and Scale
Pardyl, Adam
Wronka, Michał
Wołczyk, Maciej
Adamczewski, Kamil
Trzciński, Tomasz
Zieliński, Bartosz
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Active Visual Exploration (AVE) is a task that involves dynamically selecting observations (glimpses), which is critical to facilitate comprehension and navigation within an environment. While modern AVE methods have demonstrated impressive performance, they are constrained to fixed-scale glimpses from rigid grids. In contrast, existing mobile platforms equipped with optical zoom capabilities can capture glimpses of arbitrary positions and scales. To address this gap between software and hardware capabilities, we introduce AdaGlimpse. It uses Soft Actor-Critic, a reinforcement learning algorithm tailored for exploration tasks, to select glimpses of arbitrary position and scale. This approach enables our model to rapidly establish a general awareness of the environment before zooming in for detailed analysis. Experimental results demonstrate that AdaGlimpse surpasses previous methods across various visual tasks while maintaining greater applicability in realistic AVE scenarios.
title AdaGlimpse: Active Visual Exploration with Arbitrary Glimpse Position and Scale
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03482