DeepDriving: Learning Affordance for Direct Perception in

affordance to refer to a specific kind of relationship between an animal and the environment For Gibson, ‘the affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes , either for good or will’ (2015: 119 emphasis in original)

Gibson, James J The Theory of Affordances The Ecological

Gibson, James J "The Theory of Affordances" The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1979 Print

Learning Affordance Landscapes for Interaction Exploration in

Further, we show our agent and affordance model help train multi-step interaction policies (e g , washing objects at a sink), improving success rates by up to 16 on various tasks, with fewer training samples, despite sparse rewards and no human demonstrations 2 Related Work Visual affordances An affordance is the potential for action [22]

Affordance Detection of Tool Parts from Geometric Features

Affordance Detection of Tool Parts from Geometric Features Austin Myers, Ching L Teo, Cornelia Fermuller, and Yiannis Aloimonos¨ Abstract—As robots begin to collaborate with humans in everyday workspaces, they will need to understand the functions of tools and their parts To cut an apple or hammer a nail,

Measuring the Impact of Affordance-Based Clickability Cues

affordance-based clickability cues An affordance is a property of the environment that makes possible some action [Gibson 1979] For example, a chair affords sitting on, a handle affords grasping and pulling, and a button affords pressing Perhaps affordance-based clickability cues will be effective at eliciting the appropriate action