Out of Sight But Not Out of Mind: An Answer Set Programming Based Online Abduction Framework for Visual Sensemaking in Autonomous Driving

Jakob Suchan, Mehul Bhatt, Srikrishna Varadarajan

Proceedings of the Twenty-Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Main track. Pages 1879-1885.

https://doi.org/10.24963/ijcai.2019/260

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Abstract

We demonstrate the need and potential of systematically integrated vision and semantics solutions for visual sensemaking (in the backdrop of autonomous driving).

A general method for online visual sensemaking using answer set programming is systematically formalised and fully implemented. The method integrates state of the art in visual computing, and is developed as a modular framework usable within hybrid architectures for perception & control. We evaluate and demo with community established benchmarks KITTIMOD and MOT. As use-case, we focus on the significance of human-centred visual sensemaking ---e.g., semantic representation and explainability, question-answering, commonsense interpolation--- in safety-critical autonomous driving situations.

Keywords

  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Non-monotonic Reasoning
  • Computer Vision: Structural and Model-Based Approaches, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: Geometric, Spatial, and Temporal Reasoning
  • Computer Vision: Motion and Tracking
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