Let it Learn - A Curious Vision System for Autonomous Object Learning

Abstract

We present a “curious” active vision system for a humanoid robot that autonomously explores its environment and learns object representations without any human assistance. Similar to an infant, who is intrinsically motivated to seek out new information, our system is endowed with an attention and learning mechanism designed to search for new information that has not been learned yet. Our method can deal with dynamic changes of object appearance which are incorporated into the object models. Our experiments demonstrate improved learning speed and accuracy through curiosity-driven learning.