Summary of Multi-view Disentanglement For Reinforcement Learning with Multiple Cameras, by Mhairi Dunion et al.
Multi-view Disentanglement for Reinforcement Learning with Multiple Cameras
by Mhairi Dunion, Stefano V. Albrecht
First submitted to arxiv on: 22 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper proposes Multi-View Disentanglement (MVD), a self-supervised auxiliary task for Reinforcement Learning (RL) that leverages information from multiple camera perspectives. By training on multiple cameras, including first-person egocentric and third-person cameras, MVD learns a disentangled representation with a shared component that generalizes to any single camera, and a private component specific to each camera. This approach improves the performance of RL agents, which can vary depending on the camera position used during training. The proposed method enables RL agents trained on multiple cameras to generalize to a single camera from the training set, overcoming hardware constraints and camera damage in real-world deployments. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper helps computers learn better by using information from different cameras. Cameras can be placed at different angles or distances, giving us more information. The computer learns to understand this information and use it to make good decisions. The researchers created a new way for the computer to do this called Multi-View Disentanglement (MVD). It helps computers learn to work well with just one camera even if they were trained using many cameras. This is important because in real life, cameras can get damaged or there might not be enough resources to use multiple cameras. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Reinforcement learning » Self supervised
