Composing Pre-Trained Object-Centric Representations for Robotics From "What" and "Where" Foundation Models

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Autori principali: Shi, Junyao, Qian, Jianing, Ma, Yecheng Jason, Jayaraman, Dinesh
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Shi, Junyao
Qian, Jianing
Ma, Yecheng Jason
Jayaraman, Dinesh
author_facet Shi, Junyao
Qian, Jianing
Ma, Yecheng Jason
Jayaraman, Dinesh
contents There have recently been large advances both in pre-training visual representations for robotic control and segmenting unknown category objects in general images. To leverage these for improved robot learning, we propose $\textbf{POCR}$, a new framework for building pre-trained object-centric representations for robotic control. Building on theories of "what-where" representations in psychology and computer vision, we use segmentations from a pre-trained model to stably locate across timesteps, various entities in the scene, capturing "where" information. To each such segmented entity, we apply other pre-trained models that build vector descriptions suitable for robotic control tasks, thus capturing "what" the entity is. Thus, our pre-trained object-centric representations for control are constructed by appropriately combining the outputs of off-the-shelf pre-trained models, with no new training. On various simulated and real robotic tasks, we show that imitation policies for robotic manipulators trained on POCR achieve better performance and systematic generalization than state of the art pre-trained representations for robotics, as well as prior object-centric representations that are typically trained from scratch.
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spellingShingle Composing Pre-Trained Object-Centric Representations for Robotics From "What" and "Where" Foundation Models
Shi, Junyao
Qian, Jianing
Ma, Yecheng Jason
Jayaraman, Dinesh
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
There have recently been large advances both in pre-training visual representations for robotic control and segmenting unknown category objects in general images. To leverage these for improved robot learning, we propose $\textbf{POCR}$, a new framework for building pre-trained object-centric representations for robotic control. Building on theories of "what-where" representations in psychology and computer vision, we use segmentations from a pre-trained model to stably locate across timesteps, various entities in the scene, capturing "where" information. To each such segmented entity, we apply other pre-trained models that build vector descriptions suitable for robotic control tasks, thus capturing "what" the entity is. Thus, our pre-trained object-centric representations for control are constructed by appropriately combining the outputs of off-the-shelf pre-trained models, with no new training. On various simulated and real robotic tasks, we show that imitation policies for robotic manipulators trained on POCR achieve better performance and systematic generalization than state of the art pre-trained representations for robotics, as well as prior object-centric representations that are typically trained from scratch.
title Composing Pre-Trained Object-Centric Representations for Robotics From "What" and "Where" Foundation Models
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13474