Can the intrinsic relation between an object and the room in which it is
usually located help agents in the Visual Navigation Task? We study this
question in the context of Object Navigation, a problem in which an agent has
to reach an object of a specific class while moving in a complex domestic
environment. In this paper, we introduce a new reduced dataset that speeds up
the training of navigation models, a notoriously complex task. Our proposed
dataset permits the training of models that do not exploit online-built maps in
reasonable times even without the use of huge computational resources.
Therefore, this reduced dataset guarantees a significant benchmark and it can
be used to identify promising models that could be then tried on bigger and
more challenging datasets. Subsequently, we propose the SMTSC model, an
attention-based model capable of exploiting the correlation between scenes and
objects contained in them, highlighting quantitatively how the idea is correct.

本文研究了在复杂的家庭环境中，物体和房间之间的内在关系是否有助于视觉导航任务中的智能体。我们通过一个新的降低训练难度的数据集提出了一种基于关注力机制的模型，该模型可以定量地利用场景和物体之间的相关性，从而能够实现导航模型的快速训练和更好的性能。