Computer Vision News - December 2021

9 Rapid Exploration for Open-World Navigation Conclusions This paper represents a great example of research in the robotics field which leverages on recent developments in the computer vision and reinforcement learning fields, to output a perfectly viable and practical application. The authors claim that RECON can discover goals that are up to 80m away in under 20 minutes and given its proven robustness to obstacles andoutdoorsconditions, seems likeareliablealgorithmforopen-worldnavigation!Wewould also love to try it out and test exploration and navigation abilities in a new environment. Meanwhile, we can enjoy the short video below, which shows the method deployed on a Clearpath Jackal ground robot and exploring a suburban environment to find a visual target. Is ImageNet still competitive? Will it be in the next few years? The answer on page 12!