A novel robotic visual perception method using object-based attention
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Abstract
The object-based attention theory has shown that perception processes only select relevant objects of the world which are then represented for action. Thus this paper proposes a novel computational method of robotic visual perception based on the object-based attention mechanism. It involves three modules: pre-attentive processing, attentional selection and perception learning. Visual scene is firstly segmented into discrete proto-objects pre-attentively and the gist of scene is identified as well. The attentional selection module simulates two types of modulation: bottom-up competition and top-down biasing. Bottom-up competition is evaluated by center-surround contrast; Given the task or scene category, the task-relevant object and a task-relevant feature of it is determined based on perception control rules and then used to evaluate top-down biasing. Following attentional selection, the attended object is put into perception learning module to update the existing object representations and perception control rules in long-term memory. An object representation consisting of between-object and within-object codings is built using probabilistic neural networks. An association memory using Bayesian network is also built to model perception control rules. Two types of robotic tasks are used to test this proposed model: task-specific object detection and landmark detection.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
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| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
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| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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