In plain words: A robot learns from single camera images to find and grab an object of a named class, with one part recognizing the class and another working out the geometry, trained together using its own practice plus a few human labels. It beat separately trained systems, including one using boxes around objects.
Abstract · End-to-End Learning of Semantic Grasping
We consider the task of semantic robotic grasping, in which a robot picks up an object of a user-specified class using only monocular images. Inspired by the two-stream hypothesis of visual reasoning, we present a semantic grasping framework that learns object detection, classification, and grasp planning in an end-to-end fashion. A "ventral stream" recognizes object class while a "dorsal stream" simultaneously interprets the geometric relationships necessary to execute successful grasps. We leverage the autonomous data collection capabilities of robots to obtain a large self-supervised dataset for training the dorsal stream, and use semi-supervised label propagation to train the ventral stream with only a modest amount of human supervision. We experimentally show that our approach improves upon grasping systems whose components are not learned end-to-end, including a baseline method that uses bounding box detection. Furthermore, we show that jointly training our model with auxiliary data consisting of non-semantic grasping data, as well as semantically labeled images without grasp actions, has the potential to substantially improve semantic grasping performance.
Eric Jang, Sudheendra Vijayanarasimhan, Peter Pastor, Julian Ibarz, Sergey Levine
arXiv:1707.01932 · cs.RO, cs.LG, stat.ML · submitted Jul 6, 2017 · updated Nov 9, 2017
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