Environment Feature
Environment feature research focuses on understanding and leveraging environmental context to improve the performance and robustness of various systems, particularly in artificial intelligence and robotics. Current research emphasizes developing methods to represent and utilize environmental information, including factored state representations in reinforcement learning, textual descriptions for noise-robustness in speech processing, and adaptive algorithms that adjust to dynamic changes. This work is significant because it addresses critical limitations in AI systems, such as sample inefficiency, vulnerability to noise and distractions, and poor generalization across different settings, ultimately leading to more reliable and adaptable technologies.
Papers
BlendScape: Enabling End-User Customization of Video-Conferencing Environments through Generative AI
Shwetha Rajaram, Nels Numan, Balasaravanan Thoravi Kumaravel, Nicolai Marquardt, Andrew D. Wilson
Bounding Box Stability against Feature Dropout Reflects Detector Generalization across Environments
Yang Yang, Wenhai Wang, Zhe Chen, Jifeng Dai, Liang Zheng
"What's my model inside of?": Exploring the role of environments for grounded natural language understanding
Ronen Tamari
A Risk-aware Planning Framework of UGVs in Off-Road Environment
Junkai Jiang, Zhenhua Hu, Zihan Xie, Changlong Hao, Hongyu Liu, Wenliang Xu, Yuning Wang, Lei He, Shaobing Xu, Jianqiang Wang