Learning to Perceive Objects for Autonomous Navigation

  • Authors:
  • Jing Peng;Bir Bhanu

  • Affiliations:
  • Center for Research in Intelligent Systems,University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. jp@vislab.ucr.edu;Center for Research in Intelligent Systems,University of California, Riverside, CA 92521, USA. bhanu@vislab.ucr.edu

  • Venue:
  • Autonomous Robots
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Current machine perception techniques that typically use segmentationfollowed by object recognition lack the required robustness to copewith the large variety of situations encountered in real-worldnavigation. Many existing techniques are brittle in the sense thateven minor changes in the expected task environment (e.g., differentlighting conditions, geometrical distortion, etc.) can severelydegrade the performance of the system or even make it failcompletely. In this paper we present a system that achieves robustperformance by using local reinforcement learning to induce a highlyadaptive mapping from input images to segmentation strategies forsuccessful recognition. This is accomplished by using the confidencelevel of model matching as reinforcement to drive learning. Localreinforcement learning gives rises to better improvement inrecognition performance. The system is verified through experimentson a large set of real images of traffic signs.