Deep reinforcement learning has become popular over recent years, showing superiority on different visual-input tasks such as playing Atari games and robot navigation. Although objects are important image elements, few work considers enhancing deep reinforcement learning with object characteristics. In this paper, we propose a novel method that can incorporate object recognition processing to deep reinforcement learning models. This approach can be adapted to any existing deep reinforcement learning frameworks. State-of-the-art results are shown in experiments on Atari games. We also propose a new approach called "object saliency maps" to visually explain the actions made by deep reinforcement learning agents.
@article{arxiv.1809.06064,
title = {Object-sensitive Deep Reinforcement Learning},
author = {Yuezhang Li and Katia Sycara and Rahul Iyer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.06064},
year = {2018}
}
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15 pages, 6 figures, Accepted at 3rd Global Conference on Artificial Intelligence (GCAI-17), Miami, 2017