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Seeing Beyond Seeing with Recurrent Neural Networks (arxiv.org)
5 points by Katydid on Feb 7, 2016 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: A memory-based neural network turns raw laser scans straight into object tracks, even hidden objects, learning from unlabeled data instead of hand-built features or sensor models. Unlike typical trackers needing engineered features and motion models, it follows many moving objects despite occlusions and noise.

Abstract · Deep Tracking: Seeing Beyond Seeing Using Recurrent Neural Networks

This paper presents to the best of our knowledge the first end-to-end object tracking approach which directly maps from raw sensor input to object tracks in sensor space without requiring any feature engineering or system identification in the form of plant or sensor models. Specifically, our system accepts a stream of raw sensor data at one end and, in real-time, produces an estimate of the entire environment state at the output including even occluded objects. We achieve this by framing the problem as a deep learning task and exploit sequence models in the form of recurrent neural networks to learn a mapping from sensor measurements to object tracks. In particular, we propose a learning method based on a form of input dropout which allows learning in an unsupervised manner, only based on raw, occluded sensor data without access to ground-truth annotations. We demonstrate our approach using a synthetic dataset designed to mimic the task of tracking objects in 2D laser data -- as commonly encountered in robotics applications -- and show that it learns to track many dynamic objects despite occlusions and the presence of sensor noise.

Peter Ondruska, Ingmar Posner
arXiv:1602.00991 · cs.LG, cs.AI, cs.CV, cs.NE, cs.RO · submitted Feb 2, 2016 · updated Mar 8, 2016
abstract · pdf · html · Published in The Thirtieth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-16), Video: https://youtu.be/cdeWCpfUGWc, Code: http://mrg.robots.ox.ac.uk/mrg_people/peter-ondruska/

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