Summary of Memonav: Working Memory Model For Visual Navigation, by Hongxin Li et al.
MemoNav: Working Memory Model for Visual Navigation
by Hongxin Li, Zeyu Wang, Xu Yang, Yuran Yang, Shuqi Mei, Zhaoxiang Zhang
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents MemoNav, a novel memory model for image-goal navigation, which improves navigation performance by utilizing a working memory-inspired pipeline. The approach employs three types of navigation memories: short-term memory (STM) to store node features on a map, long-term memory (LTM) to learn global scene representations, and working memory (WM) to generate the scene features essential for efficient navigation. By leveraging these memory types, MemoNav outperforms previous methods across all difficulty levels in both Gibson and Matterport3D scenes. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you’re trying to find your way around a new city using a map. This paper helps robots do something similar by creating a special kind of “memory” that lets them navigate to specific locations based on images. The method uses three different kinds of memories: one for short-term things like maps, one for long-term learning, and one for working together to find the best route. It’s really good at finding efficient routes and outperforms other methods. |
