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In this paper a visual place recognition algorithm suitable for semantic inference is presented. It combines place and object classification attributes suitable for the recognition of congested and cluttered scenes. The place learning task is undertaken by a method capable of abstracting appearance information from the places to be memorized. The detected visual features are treated as a bag of words and quantized by a clustering algorithm to form a visual vocabulary of the explored places. Each query image is represented by a consistency histogram spread over the memorized vocabulary. Simultaneously, an object recognition approach based on Hierarchical Temporal Memory network, updates the robot’s belief of its current position exploiting the features of scattered objects within the scene. The input images which are introduced to the network undergo a saliency computation step and are subsequently thresholded based on an entropy metric for detecting multiple objects. The place and object decisions are fused by voting to infer the semantic attributes of a particular place. The efficiency of the proposed framework has been experimentally evaluated on a real dataset and proved capable of accurately recognizing multiple dissimilar places.
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Kostavelis, I., Amanatiadis, A., Gasteratos, A. (2013). How Do You Help a Robot to Find a Place? A Supervised Learning Paradigm to Semantically Infer about Places. In: Pan, JS., Polycarpou, M.M., Woźniak, M., de Carvalho, A.C.P.L.F., Quintián, H., Corchado, E. (eds) Hybrid Artificial Intelligent Systems. HAIS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8073. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40846-5_33
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