We consider object recognition in the context oflifelong learning, where a robotic agent learns to discriminate between a growing number of object classes as it accumulates experience about the environment. We propose an incremental variant of the Regularized Least Squares for Classification(RLSC) algorithm, and exploit its structure to seamlessly addnew classes to the learned model. The presented algorithm addresses the problem of having an unbalanced proportion oftraining examples per class, which occurs when new objectsare presented to the system for the first time.We evaluate our algorithm on both a machine learning benchmark dataset and two challenging object recognition tasks in a robotic setting. Empirical evidence shows that our approach achieves comparable or higher classification performance than its batch counterpart when classes are unbalanced, while being significantly faster.

Incremental robot learning of new objects with fixed update time

CAMORIANO, RAFFAELLO;Giulia Pasquale;Carlo Ciliberto;Lorenzo Rosasco;Giorgio Metta
2017-01-01

Abstract

We consider object recognition in the context oflifelong learning, where a robotic agent learns to discriminate between a growing number of object classes as it accumulates experience about the environment. We propose an incremental variant of the Regularized Least Squares for Classification(RLSC) algorithm, and exploit its structure to seamlessly addnew classes to the learned model. The presented algorithm addresses the problem of having an unbalanced proportion oftraining examples per class, which occurs when new objectsare presented to the system for the first time.We evaluate our algorithm on both a machine learning benchmark dataset and two challenging object recognition tasks in a robotic setting. Empirical evidence shows that our approach achieves comparable or higher classification performance than its batch counterpart when classes are unbalanced, while being significantly faster.
2017
978-1-5090-4633-1
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