Robotic Occlusion Reasoning for Efficient Object Existence Prediction

Mengdi Li,Cornelius Weber,Matthias Kerzel,Jae Hee Lee,Zheni Zeng,Zhiyuan Liu,Stefan Wermter,Mengdi Li,Cornelius Weber,Matthias Kerzel,Jae Hee Lee,Zheni Zeng,Zhiyuan Liu,Stefan Wermter

Reasoning about potential occlusions is essential for robots to efficiently predict whether an object exists in an environment. Though existing work shows that a robot with active perception can achieve various tasks, it is still unclear if occlusion reasoning can be achieved. To answer this question, we introduce the task of robotic object existence prediction: when being asked about an object, a...