Embodied AI has been recently gaining attention as it aims to foster the development of autonomous and intelligent agents. In this paper, we devise a novel embodied setting in which an agent needs to explore a previously unknown environment while recounting what it sees during the path. In this context, the agent needs to navigate the environment driven by an exploration goal, select proper moments for description, and output natural language descriptions of relevant objects and scenes. Our model integrates a novel self-supervised exploration module with penalty, and a fully-attentive captioning model for explanation. Also, we investigate different policies for selecting proper moments for explanation, driven by information coming from both the environment and the navigation. Experiments are conducted on photorealistic environments from the Matterport3D dataset and investigate the navigation and explanation capabilities of the agent as well as the role of their interactions.

Explore and Explain: Self-supervised Navigation and Recounting / Bigazzi, Roberto; Landi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita. - (2021), pp. 1152-1159. (Intervento presentato al convegno 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2020 tenutosi a Milan, Italy nel 10-15 January 2021) [10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412628].

Explore and Explain: Self-supervised Navigation and Recounting

Roberto Bigazzi;Federico Landi;Marcella Cornia;Silvia Cascianelli;Lorenzo Baraldi;Rita Cucchiara
2021

Abstract

Embodied AI has been recently gaining attention as it aims to foster the development of autonomous and intelligent agents. In this paper, we devise a novel embodied setting in which an agent needs to explore a previously unknown environment while recounting what it sees during the path. In this context, the agent needs to navigate the environment driven by an exploration goal, select proper moments for description, and output natural language descriptions of relevant objects and scenes. Our model integrates a novel self-supervised exploration module with penalty, and a fully-attentive captioning model for explanation. Also, we investigate different policies for selecting proper moments for explanation, driven by information coming from both the environment and the navigation. Experiments are conducted on photorealistic environments from the Matterport3D dataset and investigate the navigation and explanation capabilities of the agent as well as the role of their interactions.
2021
25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2020
Milan, Italy
10-15 January 2021
1152
1159
Bigazzi, Roberto; Landi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita
Explore and Explain: Self-supervised Navigation and Recounting / Bigazzi, Roberto; Landi, Federico; Cornia, Marcella; Cascianelli, Silvia; Baraldi, Lorenzo; Cucchiara, Rita. - (2021), pp. 1152-1159. (Intervento presentato al convegno 25th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, ICPR 2020 tenutosi a Milan, Italy nel 10-15 January 2021) [10.1109/ICPR48806.2021.9412628].
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