Retrospectives on the embodied ai workshop

M Deitke, D Batra, Y Bisk, T Campari, AX Chang… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2022 - arxiv.org
We present a retrospective on the state of Embodied AI research. Our analysis focuses on
13 challenges presented at the Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR. These challenges are …

Embodied agents for efficient exploration and smart scene description

R Bigazzi, M Cornia, S Cascianelli… - … on Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The development of embodied agents that can communicate with humans in natural
language has gained increasing interest over the last years, as it facilitates the diffusion of …

Off-policy evaluation with online adaptation for robot exploration in challenging environments

Y Hu, J Geng, C Wang, J Keller… - IEEE Robotics and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Autonomous exploration has many important applications. However, classic information
gain-based or frontier-based exploration only relies on the robot current state to determine …

Mapping High-level Semantic Regions in Indoor Environments without Object Recognition

R Bigazzi, L Baraldi, S Kousik, R Cucchiara… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Robots require a semantic understanding of their surroundings to operate in an efficient and
explainable way in human environments. In the literature, there has been an extensive focus …

Nuclear Norm Maximization Based Curiosity-Driven Reinforcement Learning

C Chen, Y Zhai, Z Gao, K Xu, S Yang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Reinforcement learning (RL) has achieved promising results in solving numerous
challenging sequential decision problems. To address the issue of sparse extrinsic rewards …

Long-range 3d self-attention for mri prostate segmentation

F Pollastri, M Cipriano, F Bolelli… - 2022 IEEE 19th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The problem of prostate segmentation from Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is an
intense research area, due to the increased use of MRI in the diagnosis and treatment …

Spot the difference: A novel task for embodied agents in changing environments

F Landi, R Bigazzi, M Cornia… - 2022 26th …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Embodied AI is a recent research area that aims at creating intelligent agents that can move
and operate inside an environment. Existing approaches in this field demand the agents to …

Hierarchical reinforcement learning for kinematic control tasks with parameterized action spaces

J Cao, L Dong, C Sun - Neural Computing and Applications, 2024 - Springer
Most existing reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are solely applied to scenarios with
pure discrete action space or pure continuous action space. However, in certain real-world …

A Novel Heuristic Exploration Method Based on Action Effectiveness Constraints to Relieve Loop Enhancement Effect in Reinforcement Learning with Sparse …

Z Ni, Y Jin, P Liu, W Zhao - Cognitive Computation, 2024 - Springer
In realistic sparse reward tasks, existing theoretical methods cannot be effectively applied
due to the low sampling probability ofrewarded episodes. Profound research on methods …

TDLE: 2-D LiDAR Exploration With Hierarchical Planning Using Regional Division

X Zhao, C Yu, E Xu, Y Liu - 2023 IEEE 19th International …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Exploration systems are critical for enhancing the autonomy of robots. Due to the
unpredictability of the future planning space, existing methods either adopt an inefficient …