对象看起来和声音的方式提供了对其物理特性的互补反射。在许多设置中，视觉和试听的线索都异步到达，但必须集成，就像我们听到一个物体掉落在地板上，然后必须找到它时。在本文中，我们介绍了一个设置，用于研究3D虚拟环境中的多模式对象定位。一个物体在房间的某个地方掉落。配备了摄像头和麦克风的具体机器人剂必须通过将音频和视觉信号与知识的基础物理学结合来确定已删除的对象以及位置。为了研究此问题，我们生成了一个大规模数据集 - 倒下的对象数据集 - 其中包括64个房间中30个物理对象类别的8000个实例。该数据集使用Threedworld平台，该平台可以模拟基于物理的影响声音和在影片设置中对象之间的复杂物理交互。作为解决这一挑战的第一步，我们基于模仿学习，强化学习和模块化计划，开发了一组具体的代理基线，并对这项新任务的挑战进行了深入的分析。

We present a retrospective on the state of Embodied AI research. Our analysis focuses on 13 challenges presented at the Embodied AI Workshop at CVPR. These challenges are grouped into three themes: (1) visual navigation, (2) rearrangement, and (3) embodied vision-and-language. We discuss the dominant datasets within each theme, evaluation metrics for the challenges, and the performance of state-of-the-art models. We highlight commonalities between top approaches to the challenges and identify potential future directions for Embodied AI research.

从“Internet AI”的时代到“体现AI”的时代，AI算法和代理商出现了一个新兴范式转变，其中不再从主要来自Internet策划的图像，视频或文本的数据集。相反，他们通过与与人类类似的Enocentric感知来通过与其环境的互动学习。因此，对体现AI模拟器的需求存在大幅增长，以支持各种体现的AI研究任务。这种越来越多的体现AI兴趣是有利于对人工综合情报（AGI）的更大追求，但对这一领域并无一直存在当代和全面的调查。本文旨在向体现AI领域提供百科全书的调查，从其模拟器到其研究。通过使用我们提出的七种功能评估九个当前体现的AI模拟器，旨在了解模拟器，以其在体现AI研究和其局限性中使用。最后，本文调查了体现AI - 视觉探索，视觉导航和体现问题的三个主要研究任务（QA），涵盖了最先进的方法，评估指标和数据集。最后，随着通过测量该领域的新见解，本文将为仿真器 - 任务选择和建议提供关于该领域的未来方向的建议。

最近的视听导航工作是无噪音音频环境中的单一静态声音，并努力推广到闻名声音。我们介绍了一种新型动态视听导航基准测试，其中一个体现的AI代理必须在存在分散的人和嘈杂的声音存在下在未映射的环境中捕获移动声源。我们提出了一种依赖于多模态架构的端到端增强学习方法，该方法依赖于融合来自双耳音频信号和空间占用映射的空间视听信息，以编码为我们的新的稳健导航策略进行编码所需的功能复杂的任务设置。我们展示了我们的方法优于当前的最先进状态，以更好地推广到闻名声音以及对嘈杂的3D扫描现实世界数据集副本和TASTPORT3D上的嘈杂情景更好地对嘈杂的情景进行了更好的稳健性，以实现静态和动态的视听导航基准。我们的小型基准将在http://dav-nav.cs.uni-freiburg.de提供。

视听导航将视觉和听觉结合在未映射的环境中导航到声音源。虽然最近的方法已经证明了音频输入的好处，以检测和找到目标，他们专注于干净和静态的声源，并努力推广到闻名声音。在这项工作中，我们提出了新的动态视听导航基准，该基准测试基准测试，该基准要求在具有嘈杂和分散注意力的环境中捕捉环境中的移动声源。我们介绍了一种钢筋学习方法，用于为这些复杂设置学习强大的导航策略。为此，我们提出了一种架构，其融合空间特征空间中的视听信息，以学习本地地图和音频信号中固有的几何信息的相关性。我们展示了我们的方法在两个挑战的3D扫描的真实世界环境中，我们的方法始终如一地占据了所有权力，闻名声音和嘈杂环境的所有任务的大型余量。该基准测试是在http://dav-nav.cs.uni-freiburg.de上获得的。

Generalisation to unseen contexts remains a challenge for embodied navigation agents. In the context of semantic audio-visual navigation (SAVi) tasks, the notion of generalisation should include both generalising to unseen indoor visual scenes as well as generalising to unheard sounding objects. However, previous SAVi task definitions do not include evaluation conditions on truly novel sounding objects, resorting instead to evaluating agents on unheard sound clips of known objects; meanwhile, previous SAVi methods do not include explicit mechanisms for incorporating domain knowledge about object and region semantics. These weaknesses limit the development and assessment of models' abilities to generalise their learned experience. In this work, we introduce the use of knowledge-driven scene priors in the semantic audio-visual embodied navigation task: we combine semantic information from our novel knowledge graph that encodes object-region relations, spatial knowledge from dual Graph Encoder Networks, and background knowledge from a series of pre-training tasks -- all within a reinforcement learning framework for audio-visual navigation. We also define a new audio-visual navigation sub-task, where agents are evaluated on novel sounding objects, as opposed to unheard clips of known objects. We show improvements over strong baselines in generalisation to unseen regions and novel sounding objects, within the Habitat-Matterport3D simulation environment, under the SoundSpaces task.

我们介绍了ThreedWorld（TDW），是交互式多模态物理模拟的平台。 TDW能够模拟高保真感官数据和富裕的3D环境中的移动代理和对象之间的物理交互。独特的属性包括：实时近光 - 真实图像渲染;对象和环境库，以及他们定制的例程;有效构建新环境课程的生成程序;高保真音频渲染;各种材料类型的现实物理相互作用，包括布料，液体和可变形物体;可定制的代理体现AI代理商;并支持与VR设备的人类交互。 TDW的API使多个代理能够在模拟中进行交互，并返回一系列表示世界状态的传感器和物理数据。我们在计算机视觉，机器学习和认知科学中的新兴的研究方向上提供了通过TDW的初始实验，包括多模态物理场景理解，物理动态预测，多代理交互，像孩子一样学习的模型，并注意研究人类和神经网络。

这项工作研究了图像目标导航问题，需要通过真正拥挤的环境引导具有嘈杂传感器和控制的机器人。最近的富有成效的方法依赖于深度加强学习，并学习模拟环境中的导航政策，这些环境比真实环境更简单。直接将这些训练有素的策略转移到真正的环境可能非常具有挑战性甚至危险。我们用由四个解耦模块组成的分层导航方法来解决这个问题。第一模块在机器人导航期间维护障碍物映射。第二个将定期预测实时地图上的长期目标。第三个计划碰撞命令集以导航到长期目标，而最终模块将机器人正确靠近目标图像。四个模块是单独开发的，以适应真实拥挤的情景中的图像目标导航。此外，分层分解对导航目标规划，碰撞避免和导航结束预测的学习进行了解耦，这在导航训练期间减少了搜索空间，并有助于改善以前看不见的真实场景的概括。我们通过移动机器人评估模拟器和现实世界中的方法。结果表明，我们的方法优于多种导航基线，可以在这些方案中成功实现导航任务。

Efficient ObjectGoal navigation (ObjectNav) in novel environments requires an understanding of the spatial and semantic regularities in environment layouts. In this work, we present a straightforward method for learning these regularities by predicting the locations of unobserved objects from incomplete semantic maps. Our method differs from previous prediction-based navigation methods, such as frontier potential prediction or egocentric map completion, by directly predicting unseen targets while leveraging the global context from all previously explored areas. Our prediction model is lightweight and can be trained in a supervised manner using a relatively small amount of passively collected data. Once trained, the model can be incorporated into a modular pipeline for ObjectNav without the need for any reinforcement learning. We validate the effectiveness of our method on the HM3D and MP3D ObjectNav datasets. We find that it achieves the state-of-the-art on both datasets, despite not using any additional data for training.

对象目标导航的最新方法依赖于增强学习，通常需要大量的计算资源和学习时间。我们提出了使用无互动学习（PONI）的对象导航的潜在功能，这是一种模块化方法，可以散布“在哪里看？”的技能？对于对象和“如何导航到（x，y）？”。我们的主要见解是“在哪里看？”可以纯粹将其视为感知问题，而没有环境相互作用就可以学习。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一个网络，该网络可以预测两个在语义图上的互补电位功能，并使用它们来决定在哪里寻找看不见的对象。我们使用在自上而下的语义图的被动数据集上使用受监督的学习来训练潜在的功能网络，并将其集成到模块化框架中以执行对象目标导航。 Gibson和MatterPort3D的实验表明，我们的方法可实现对象目标导航的最新方法，同时减少培训计算成本高达1,600倍。可以使用代码和预训练的模型：https：//vision.cs.utexas.edu/projects/poni/

A household robot should be able to navigate to target locations without requiring users to first annotate everything in their home. Current approaches to this object navigation challenge do not test on real robots and rely on expensive semantically labeled 3D meshes. In this work, our aim is an agent that builds self-supervised models of the world via exploration, the same as a child might. We propose an end-to-end self-supervised embodied agent that leverages exploration to train a semantic segmentation model of 3D objects, and uses those representations to learn an object navigation policy purely from self-labeled 3D meshes. The key insight is that embodied agents can leverage location consistency as a supervision signal - collecting images from different views/angles and applying contrastive learning to fine-tune a semantic segmentation model. In our experiments, we observe that our framework performs better than other self-supervised baselines and competitively with supervised baselines, in both simulation and when deployed in real houses.

我们介绍了Soundspaces 2.0，这是一个用于3D环境的基于几何的音频渲染的平台。考虑到现实世界环境的3D网格，Soundspaces可以为从任意麦克风位置捕获的任意声音生成高度逼真的声音。它与现有的3D视觉资产一起支持一系列视听研究任务，例如视听导航，映射，源定位和分离以及声学匹配。与现有资源相比，Soundspaces 2.0具有允许连续的空间采样，对新型环境的概括以及可配置的麦克风和材料属性的优点。据我们所知，这是第一个基于几何的声学模拟，它提供了高忠诚和现实主义，同时也足够快地用于体现学习。我们展示了模拟器的属性，并根据现实世界的音频测量进行了基准性能。此外，通过涵盖具体导航和远场自动语音识别的两个下游任务，突出了后者的SIM2REAL性能。 Soundspaces 2.0可公开使用，以促进对感知系统的更广泛研究，这些系统既可以看到和听到。

我们介绍了互动室（Thor），这是一个视觉AI研究的框架，可在http://ai2thor.allenai.org上找到。AI2-这是由几乎逼真的3D室内场景组成的，在该场景中，AI代理可以在场景中导航并与对象进行交互以执行任务。AI2-这可以在许多不同的领域进行研究，包括但不限于深入强化学习，模仿学习，通过互动，计划，视觉问答答案，无监督的表示学习，对象检测和细分以及认知模型。AI2的目的是促进构建视觉上智能模型，并将研究推向该领域。

本文着重于使用回声和RGB图像来感知和导航3D环境。特别是，我们通过将RGB图像与回声融合来执行深度估计，并从多个方向收到。与以前的作品不同，我们超越了RGB的视野，并估算了大量较大环境的密集深度图。我们表明，回声提供了有关补充RGB图像的3D结构的整体且廉价的信息。此外，我们研究了如何在机器人导航中使用回声和广泛的视野深度图。我们使用两组具有挑战性的现实3D环境（副本和Matterport3D）将提出的方法与最近的基线进行比较。将公开提供实施和预培训模型。

We present Habitat, a platform for research in embodied artificial intelligence (AI). Habitat enables training embodied agents (virtual robots) in highly efficient photorealistic 3D simulation. Specifically, Habitat consists of: (i) Habitat-Sim: a flexible, high-performance 3D simulator with configurable agents, sensors, and generic 3D dataset handling. Habitat-Sim is fast -when rendering a scene from Matterport3D, it achieves several thousand frames per second (fps) running single-threaded, and can reach over 10,000 fps multi-process on a single GPU. (ii) Habitat-API: a modular high-level library for end-toend development of embodied AI algorithms -defining tasks (e.g. navigation, instruction following, question answering), configuring, training, and benchmarking embodied agents.These large-scale engineering contributions enable us to answer scientific questions requiring experiments that were till now impracticable or 'merely' impractical. Specifically, in the context of point-goal navigation: (1) we revisit the comparison between learning and SLAM approaches from two recent works [20,16] and find evidence for the opposite conclusion -that learning outperforms SLAM if scaled to an order of magnitude more experience than previous investigations, and (2) we conduct the first cross-dataset generalization experiments {train, test} × {Matterport3D, Gibson} for multiple sensors {blind, RGB, RGBD, D} and find that only agents with depth (D) sensors generalize across datasets. We hope that our open-source platform and these findings will advance research in embodied AI.

Semantic navigation is necessary to deploy mobile robots in uncontrolled environments like our homes, schools, and hospitals. Many learning-based approaches have been proposed in response to the lack of semantic understanding of the classical pipeline for spatial navigation, which builds a geometric map using depth sensors and plans to reach point goals. Broadly, end-to-end learning approaches reactively map sensor inputs to actions with deep neural networks, while modular learning approaches enrich the classical pipeline with learning-based semantic sensing and exploration. But learned visual navigation policies have predominantly been evaluated in simulation. How well do different classes of methods work on a robot? We present a large-scale empirical study of semantic visual navigation methods comparing representative methods from classical, modular, and end-to-end learning approaches across six homes with no prior experience, maps, or instrumentation. We find that modular learning works well in the real world, attaining a 90% success rate. In contrast, end-to-end learning does not, dropping from 77% simulation to 23% real-world success rate due to a large image domain gap between simulation and reality. For practitioners, we show that modular learning is a reliable approach to navigate to objects: modularity and abstraction in policy design enable Sim-to-Real transfer. For researchers, we identify two key issues that prevent today's simulators from being reliable evaluation benchmarks - (A) a large Sim-to-Real gap in images and (B) a disconnect between simulation and real-world error modes - and propose concrete steps forward.

我们介绍了栖息地2.0（H2.0），这是一个模拟平台，用于培训交互式3D环境和复杂物理的场景中的虚拟机器人。我们为体现的AI堆栈 - 数据，仿真和基准任务做出了全面的贡献。具体来说，我们提出：（i）复制：一个由艺术家的，带注释的，可重新配置的3D公寓（匹配真实空间）与铰接对象（例如可以打开/关闭的橱柜和抽屉）； （ii）H2.0：一个高性能物理学的3D模拟器，其速度超过8-GPU节点上的每秒25,000个模拟步骤（实时850x实时），代表先前工作的100倍加速；和（iii）家庭助理基准（HAB）：一套辅助机器人（整理房屋，准备杂货，设置餐桌）的一套常见任务，以测试一系列移动操作功能。这些大规模的工程贡献使我们能够系统地比较长期结构化任务中的大规模加固学习（RL）和经典的感官平面操作（SPA）管道，并重点是对新对象，容器和布局的概括。 。我们发现（1）与层次结构相比，（1）平面RL政策在HAB上挣扎； （2）具有独立技能的层次结构遭受“交接问题”的困扰，（3）水疗管道比RL政策更脆。

Training effective embodied AI agents often involves manual reward engineering, expert imitation, specialized components such as maps, or leveraging additional sensors for depth and localization. Another approach is to use neural architectures alongside self-supervised objectives which encourage better representation learning. In practice, there are few guarantees that these self-supervised objectives encode task-relevant information. We propose the Scene Graph Contrastive (SGC) loss, which uses scene graphs as general-purpose, training-only, supervisory signals. The SGC loss does away with explicit graph decoding and instead uses contrastive learning to align an agent's representation with a rich graphical encoding of its environment. The SGC loss is generally applicable, simple to implement, and encourages representations that encode objects' semantics, relationships, and history. Using the SGC loss, we attain significant gains on three embodied tasks: Object Navigation, Multi-Object Navigation, and Arm Point Navigation. Finally, we present studies and analyses which demonstrate the ability of our trained representation to encode semantic cues about the environment.

我们探索动态声源的主动音频分离，其中体现的代理在3D环境中智能移动，以连续隔离感兴趣的对象发出的随时间变化的音频流。该经纪人听到了多种音频来源的混杂流（例如，在嘈杂的派对上演奏音乐和乐队的乐队）。考虑到有限的时间预算，它需要使用以自我为中心的视听观察来准确地提取目标声音。我们提出了一种配备新型变压器记忆的增强式学习代理，该学习者学习运动策略，以控制其相机和麦克风以恢复动态目标音频，并使用自我意见来对当前时间段进行高质量的估计，并同时改善其过去的估计。使用在现实世界扫描的Matterport3D环境中使用高度现实的声音空间模拟，我们表明我们的模型能够学习有效的行为，以进行动态音频目标的连续分离。项目：https：//vision.cs.utexas.edu/projects/active-av-dynamic-separation/。

Training embodied agents in simulation has become mainstream for the embodied AI community. However, these agents often struggle when deployed in the physical world due to their inability to generalize to real-world environments. In this paper, we present Phone2Proc, a method that uses a 10-minute phone scan and conditional procedural generation to create a distribution of training scenes that are semantically similar to the target environment. The generated scenes are conditioned on the wall layout and arrangement of large objects from the scan, while also sampling lighting, clutter, surface textures, and instances of smaller objects with randomized placement and materials. Leveraging just a simple RGB camera, training with Phone2Proc shows massive improvements from 34.7% to 70.7% success rate in sim-to-real ObjectNav performance across a test suite of over 200 trials in diverse real-world environments, including homes, offices, and RoboTHOR. Furthermore, Phone2Proc's diverse distribution of generated scenes makes agents remarkably robust to changes in the real world, such as human movement, object rearrangement, lighting changes, or clutter.