ALOOF: Autonomous Learning of the Meaning of Objects

CREOL @ JOWO 2017

Valerio Basile
23/9/2017

CHIST-ERA (EU) project 2014-2017

  • Sapienza University: Computer Vision
  • TU Wien: Perception
  • University of Birmingham: Robotics
  • Inria Sophia Antipolis: Knowledge Management

Inria@ALOOF

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Semantic Web

Lifelong Learning Loop

  • Robot deploy
  • Perception (segmentation, object recognition, scene detection, ...)
  • Knowledge processing
  • Human validation
  • Robot deploy
  • ...

J. Young, L. Kunze, V. Basile, E. Cabrio, N. Hawes, B. Caputo
Semantic Web-Mining and Deep Vision for Lifelong Object DiscoveryICRA 2017

DeKO: Default Knowledge about Objects

A large-scale, RDF knowledge base of prototypical knowledge about objects.

  • Large-scale: learn from data
  • RDF: don't reinvent the linked data wheel
  • Prototypical: beliefs, not facts
  • Objects: know your boundaries

Default knowledge

  • Classification
  • Prototypical locations
  • Prototypical actions
  • Frame instances

T-box

  • DBpedia
  • WordNet/BabelNet
  • FrameBase/Framester
  • DeKO Ontology*

Knowledge sources

  • Crowdsourcing
  • Manual annotation
  • Relation Extraction (EKAW 2016, SWJ -- under revision)
  • Keyword linking (AAAI 2017 -- under revision)
  • Frame instance parsing and clustering (AnSWeR 2017)

Output

DeKO is coming soon... In the meantine:

  • KNEWS (Knowledge Extraction with Semantics)
    https://github.com/valeriobasile/learningbyreading
  • Data sets
    https://project.inria.fr/aloof/data/
  • Open position
    * Representing default knowledge is an open problem

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