First-Person Activity Forecasting with Online Inverse Reinforcement Learning - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University

First-Person Activity Forecasting with Online Inverse Reinforcement Learning

Conference Paper, Proceedings of (ICCV) International Conference on Computer Vision, pp. 3716 - 3725, October, 2017

Abstract

We address the problem of incrementally modeling and forecasting long-term goals of a first-person camera wearer: what the user will do, where they will go, and what goal they are attempting to reach. In contrast to prior work in trajectory forecasting, our algorithm, DARKO, goes further to reason about semantic states (will I pick up an object?), and future goal states that are far both in terms of space and time. DARKO learns and forecasts from first-person visual observations of the user's daily behaviors via an Online Inverse Reinforcement Learning (IRL) approach. Classical IRL discovers only the rewards in a batch setting, whereas DARKO discovers the states, transitions, rewards, and goals of a user from streaming data. Among other results, we show DARKO forecasts goals better than competing methods in both noisy and ideal settings, and our approach is theoretically and empirically no-regret.

Notes
Marr Prize (Best Paper) Honorable Mention

BibTeX

@conference{Rhinehart-2017-101747,
author = {Nicholas Rhinehart and Kris M. Kitani},
title = {First-Person Activity Forecasting with Online Inverse Reinforcement Learning},
booktitle = {Proceedings of (ICCV) International Conference on Computer Vision},
year = {2017},
month = {October},
pages = {3716 - 3725},
publisher = {IEEE},
keywords = {Activity Forecasting, Inverse Reinforcement Learning, First-Person Video, Online Learning},
}