Abstract
• Our method performs object recognition and pose estimation simultaneously. • Our network is trained with only supervised object class labels. • We propose multiple-anchor triplet learning to avoid the problem of local minima. • Our method is superior to various existing methods. Accurate object recognition and pose estimation models are essential for practical applications of robot arms, such as picking products on a shelf. Training such a model often requires a large-scale dataset with qualified labels for both object classes and pose parameters, and collecting accurate pose labels is particularly costly. A recent paper Ueno et al.(2019)[28] proposed a triplet learning framework for joint object recognition and pose estimation without explicit pose labels by learning a spatial transformer network to estimate the pose difference of an input image from an anchor image depicting the same object in a reference pose . However, our analysis suggests that the pose estimation accuracy is severely degraded for input images with large pose differences. To address this problem, we propose a new learning approach called multiple-anchor triplet learning. The basic idea is to give dense reference poses by preparing multiple anchors so that there is at least one anchor image having a small pose difference to the input image. Our multiple-anchor triplet learning is an extension of the standard single-anchor triplet learning to the multiple-anchor case. Inspired by the idea of multiple instance learning , we introduce a selection layer that automatically chooses the best anchor for each input image and allows the network to be trained end-to-end to minimize triplet-based losses. Experiments with three benchmark datasets in product picking scenarios demonstrate that our method significantly outperforms existing methods in both object recognition and pose estimation accuracy.
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