NavigationNet: A Large-scale Interactive Indoor Navigation Dataset
This provides a resource for researchers in robotics and AI to develop navigation systems without pre-installed infrastructure, though it is incremental as it builds on existing deep learning methods.
The authors tackled the problem of indoor navigation in unseen environments by introducing NavigationNet, a large-scale dataset and benchmark for deep reinforcement learning, which includes formalized routing problems.
Indoor navigation aims at performing navigation within buildings. In scenes like home and factory, most intelligent mobile devices require an functionality of routing to guide itself precisely through indoor scenes to complete various tasks in order to serve human. In most scenarios, we expected an intelligent device capable of navigating itself in unseen environment. Although several solutions have been proposed to deal with this issue, they usually require pre-installed beacons or a map pre-built with SLAM, which means that they are not capable of working in novel environments. To address this, we proposed NavigationNet, a computer vision dataset and benchmark to allow the utilization of deep reinforcement learning on scene-understanding-based indoor navigation. We also proposed and formalized several typical indoor routing problems that are suitable for deep reinforcement learning.