Situational Fusion of Visual Representation for Visual Navigation

William B. Shen, Danfei Xu, Yuke Zhu, Leonidas J. Guibas, Li Fei-Fei, Silvio Savarese; Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2019, pp. 2881-2890

Abstract


A complex visual navigation task puts an agent in different situations which call for a diverse range of visual perception abilities. For example, to "go to the nearest chair", the agent might need to identify a chair in a living room using semantics, follow along a hallway using vanishing point cues, and avoid obstacles using depth. Therefore, utilizing the appropriate visual perception abilities based on a situational understanding of the visual environment can empower these navigation models in unseen visual environments. We propose to train an agent to fuse a large set of visual representations that correspond to diverse visual perception abilities. To fully utilize each representation, we develop an action-level representation fusion scheme, which predicts an action candidate from each representation and adaptively consolidate these action candidates into the final action. Furthermore, we employ a data-driven inter-task affinity regularization to reduce redundancies and improve generalization. Our approach leads to a significantly improved performance in novel environments over ImageNet-pretrained baseline and other fusion methods.

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@InProceedings{Shen_2019_ICCV,
author = {Shen, William B. and Xu, Danfei and Zhu, Yuke and Guibas, Leonidas J. and Fei-Fei, Li and Savarese, Silvio},
title = {Situational Fusion of Visual Representation for Visual Navigation},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV)},
month = {October},
year = {2019}
}