# SCOD: Active Object Detection for Embodied Agents using Sensory Commutativity of Action Sequences

Source: [SCOD: Active Object Detection for Embodied Agents using Sensory Commutativity of Action Sequences](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa6a541e209131cea2761e>)

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Authors: Hugo Caselles-Dupr\\'e, Michael Garcia-Ortiz, David Filliat

Published: 2021-07-05T14:58:17.000Z

## Abstract

We introduce SCOD (Sensory Commutativity Object Detection), an active method for movable and immovable object detection. SCOD exploits the commutative properties of action sequences, in the scenario of an embodied agent equipped with first-person sensors and a continuous motor space with multiple degrees of freedom. SCOD is based on playing an action sequence in two different orders from the same starting point and comparing the two final observations obtained after each sequence. Our experiments on 3D realistic robotic setups (iGibson) demonstrate the accuracy of SCOD and its generalization to unseen environments and objects. We also successfully apply SCOD on a real robot to further illustrate its generalization properties. With SCOD, we aim at providing a novel way of approaching the problem of object discovery in the context of a naive embodied agent. We provide code and a supplementary video.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02069>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2107.02069.pdf>)