QuASH: Using Natural-Language Heuristics to Query Visual-Language Robotic Maps
Embeddings from Visual-Language Models are increasingly utilized to represent semantics in robotic maps, offering an open-vocabulary scene understanding that surpasses traditional, limited labels. Embeddings enable on-demand querying by comparing embedded user text prompts to map embeddings via a similarity metric. The key challenge in performing the task indicated in a query is that the robot must determine the parts of the environment relevant to the query. This paper proposes a solution to this challenge. We leverage natural-language synonyms and antonyms associated with the query within the embedding space, applying heuristics to estimate the language space relevant to the query, and use that to train a classifier to partition the environment into matches and non-matches. We evaluate our method through extensive experiments, querying both maps and standard image benchmarks. The results demonstrate increased queryability of maps and images. Our querying technique is agnostic to the representation and encoder used, and requires limited training.
Code (0)
등록된 구현이 없습니다.
Tasks
Scene UnderstandingSimilar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Mitigating Over-Smoothing and Over-Squashing using Augmentations of Forman-Ricci Curvature
While Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have been successfully leveraged for learning on graph-structured data across domains, several potential pitfalls have been described recently. Those include the inability to accurately…
Where to Look Matters: Learning Influential Views for VLM-based 3D Visual Grounding
Recent zero-shot 3D visual grounding methods leverage vision-language models (VLMs) to localize objects in 3D scenes from natural language queries. However, these methods typically rely on heuristic rules to select which…
Natural Language QueriesVisual GroundingTHOR: Transformer Heuristics for On-Demand Retrieval
We introduce the THOR (Transformer Heuristics for On-Demand Retrieval) Module, designed and implemented by eSapiens, a secure, scalable engine that transforms natural-language questions into verified, read-only SQL analy…
Don't Learn, Ground: A Case for Natural Language Inference with Visual Grounding
We propose a zero-shot method for Natural Language Inference (NLI) that leverages multimodal representations by grounding language in visual contexts. Our approach generates visual representations of premises using text-…
Natural Language UnderstandingNatural Language InferenceVisual Question AnsweringVisual GroundingAsymmetric Cross-Guided Attention Network for Actor and Action Video Segmentation From Natural Language Query
Actor and action video segmentation from natural language query aims to selectively segment the actor and its action in a video based on an input textual description. Previous works mostly focus on learning simple correl…
Referring Expression SegmentationSegmentationVideo SegmentationVideo Semantic Segmentation