Visual memory in autonomous agents

A computer-implemented method for object detection, comprising:

• i. receiving an input scene;
• ii. identifying objects in the input scene using an object detection algorithm;
• iii. identifying objects in the input scene using an image-matching algorithm, trained on objects identified in earlier frames of the input scene;
• and
• iv. generating a representation of the image scene including objects identified using the object detection algorithm and the image-matching algorithm.

A computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

• i. add one or more objects in the visual stream to an image matching system;
• ii. generate one or more training examples from one or more frames from the visual stream including the one or more objects added to the image matching system;
• and
• iii. use the one or more training examples to train the trainable object detector on the training examples.

A computer-readable medium comprising instructions which, when executed by a computer, cause the computer to:

• ii. identify objects in the input scene using an object detection algorithm;
• iii. identify objects in the input scene using an image-matching algorithm, trained on objects identified in earlier frames of the input scene;
• and
• iv. generate a representation of the image scene including objects identified using the object detection algorithm and the image-matching algorithm.