Advancing Robotic Perception with Perceived-Entity Linking

Mark Adamik*, Romana Pernisch, Ilaria Tiddi, Stefan Schlobach

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Abstract

The capabilities of current robotic applications are significantly constrained by their limited ability to perceive and understand their surroundings. The Semantic Web aims to offer general, machine-readable knowledge about the world and could be a potential solution to address the information needs of robotic agents. We introduce the Perceived-Entity Linking (PEL) problem as the task of recognizing entities and linking the sensory data of an autonomous agent to a unique identifier in a target knowledge graph. We provide a formal definition of PEL, and propose a PEL baseline based on the YOLO object detection algorithm and a conventional entity linking method as an initial attempt to solve the task. The baseline is evaluated by linking the concepts contained in MS COCO and VisualGenome datasets to WikiData, DBpedia and YAGO as target knowledge graphs. This study makes a first step in allowing robotic agents to leverage the extensive knowledge contained in general-purpose knowledge graphs.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationThe Semantic Web – ISWC 2024
Subtitle of host publication23rd International Semantic Web Conference, Baltimore, MD, USA, November 11–15, 2024, Proceedings, Part II
EditorsGianluca Demartini, Katja Hose, Maribel Acosta, Matteo Palmonari, Gong Cheng, Hala Skaf-Molli, Nicolas Ferranti, Daniel Hernández, Aidan Hogan
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages192-209
Number of pages18
Volume2
ISBN (Electronic)9783031778506
ISBN (Print)9783031778490
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2025
Event23rd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2024 - Hanover, United States
Duration: 11 Nov 202415 Nov 2024

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
PublisherSpringer
Volume15232 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349
NameISWC: International Semantic Web Conference
PublisherSpringer
Volume2024

Conference

Conference23rd International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2024
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityHanover
Period11/11/2415/11/24

Bibliographical note

Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2025.

Keywords

  • Knowledge Graphs
  • Robotic Perception
  • Semantic Web

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