Visual-Tactile Sensing for In-Hand Object Reconstruction

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.14498v1
• Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2023 15:16:31 GMT
• Title: Visual-Tactile Sensing for In-Hand Object Reconstruction
• Authors: Wenqiang Xu, Zhenjun Yu, Han Xue, Ruolin Ye, Siqiong Yao, Cewu Lu
• Abstract summary: We propose a visual-tactile in-hand object reconstruction framework textbfVTacO, and extend it to textbfVTacOH for hand-object reconstruction. A simulation environment, VT-Sim, supports generating hand-object interaction for both rigid and deformable objects.
• Score: 38.42487660352112
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Tactile sensing is one of the modalities humans rely on heavily to perceive the world. Working with vision, this modality refines local geometry structure, measures deformation at the contact area, and indicates the hand-object contact state. With the availability of open-source tactile sensors such as DIGIT, research on visual-tactile learning is becoming more accessible and reproducible. Leveraging this tactile sensor, we propose a novel visual-tactile in-hand object reconstruction framework \textbf{VTacO}, and extend it to \textbf{VTacOH} for hand-object reconstruction. Since our method can support both rigid and deformable object reconstruction, no existing benchmarks are proper for the goal. We propose a simulation environment, VT-Sim, which supports generating hand-object interaction for both rigid and deformable objects. With VT-Sim, we generate a large-scale training dataset and evaluate our method on it. Extensive experiments demonstrate that our proposed method can outperform the previous baseline methods qualitatively and quantitatively. Finally, we directly apply our model trained in simulation to various real-world test cases, which display qualitative results. Codes, models, simulation environment, and datasets are available at \url{https://sites.google.com/view/vtaco/}.

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