3 papers
cs.RO2024
LMD-PGN: Cross-Modal Knowledge Distillation from First-Person-View Images to Third-Person-View BEV Maps for Universal Point Goal Navigation
Riku Uemura, Kanji Tanaka, Kenta Tsukahara +1
Point goal navigation (PGN) is a mapless navigation approach that trains robots to visually navigate to goal points without relying on pre-built maps. Despite significant progress…
cs.LG2024
Training Self-localization Models for Unseen Unfamiliar Places via Teacher-to-Student Data-Free Knowledge Transfer
Kenta Tsukahara, Kanji Tanaka, Daiki Iwata
A typical assumption in state-of-the-art self-localization models is that an annotated training dataset is available in the target workspace. However, this does not always hold whe…
cs.CV2023
A Multi-modal Approach to Single-modal Visual Place Classification
Tomoya Iwasaki, Kanji Tanaka, Kenta Tsukahara
Visual place classification from a first-person-view monocular RGB image is a fundamental problem in long-term robot navigation. A difficulty arises from the fact that RGB image cl…