SEAL: Self-supervised Embodied Active Learning using Exploration and 3D Consistency

Devendra Singh Chaplot, Murtaza Dalal, Saurabh Gupta, Jitendra Malik, Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Keywords: Embodied Active Learning, Embodied AI, Exploration, Navigation, Computer Vision, Self-Supervised Learning

Abstract: In this paper, we explore how we can build upon the data and models of Internet images and use them to adapt to robot vision without requiring any extra labels. We present a framework called Self-supervised Embodied Active Learning (SEAL). It utilizes perception models trained on internet images to learn an active exploration policy. The observations gathered by this exploration policy are labelled using 3D consistency and used to improve the perception model. We build and utilize 3D semantic maps to learn both action and perception in a completely self-supervised manner. The semantic map is used to compute an intrinsic motivation reward for training the exploration policy and for labelling the agent observations using spatio-temporal 3D consistency and label propagation. We demonstrate that the SEAL framework can be used to close the action-perception loop: it improves object detection and instance segmentation performance of a pretrained perception model by just moving around in training environments and the improved perception model can be used to improve Object Goal Navigation.

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