ConViTac: Aligning Visual-Tactile Fusion with Contrastive Representations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20757v1
• Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2025 18:43:35 GMT
• Title: ConViTac: Aligning Visual-Tactile Fusion with Contrastive Representations
• Authors: Zhiyuan Wu, Yongqiang Zhao, Shan Luo,
• Abstract summary: We propose ConViTac, a visual-tactile representation learning network designed to enhance the alignment of features during fusion.<n>Our key contribution is a Contrastive Embedding Conditioning mechanism that leverages a contrastive encoder pretrained to project visual and tactile inputs into unified latent embeddings.<n>We conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate the superiority of ConViTac in real world over current state-of-the-art methods.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Vision and touch are two fundamental sensory modalities for robots, offering complementary information that enhances perception and manipulation tasks. Previous research has attempted to jointly learn visual-tactile representations to extract more meaningful information. However, these approaches often rely on direct combination, such as feature addition and concatenation, for modality fusion, which tend to result in poor feature integration. In this paper, we propose ConViTac, a visual-tactile representation learning network designed to enhance the alignment of features during fusion using contrastive representations. Our key contribution is a Contrastive Embedding Conditioning (CEC) mechanism that leverages a contrastive encoder pretrained through self-supervised contrastive learning to project visual and tactile inputs into unified latent embeddings. These embeddings are used to couple visual-tactile feature fusion through cross-modal attention, aiming at aligning the unified representations and enhancing performance on downstream tasks. We conduct extensive experiments to demonstrate the superiority of ConViTac in real world over current state-of-the-art methods and the effectiveness of our proposed CEC mechanism, which improves accuracy by up to 12.0% in material classification and grasping prediction tasks.

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