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Rapid deployment of new tactile sensors is essential for scalable robotic manipulation, especially in multi-fingered hands equipped with vision-based tactile sensors. However, current methods for inferring contact properties rely heavily on…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Christopher J. Ford , Kaichen Shi , Laura Butcher , Nathan F. Lepora , Efi Psomopoulou

Tactile sensing, which relies on direct physical contact, is critical for human perception and underpins applications in computer vision, robotics, and multimodal learning. Because tactile data is often scarce and costly to acquire,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Cagri Gungor , Derek Eppinger , Adriana Kovashka

Tactile sensing in biological organisms is deeply intertwined with morphological form, such as human fingers, cat paws, and elephant trunks, which enables rich and adaptive interactions through a variety of geometrically complex structures.…

Recent development of neural implicit function has shown tremendous success on high-quality 3D shape reconstruction. However, most works divide the space into inside and outside of the shape, which limits their representing power to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-10 Jianglong Ye , Yuntao Chen , Naiyan Wang , Xiaolong Wang

Real-world contact-rich manipulation demands robots to perceive temporal tactile feedback, capture subtle surface deformations, and reason about object properties as well as force dynamics. Although optical tactile sensors are uniquely…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Ruoxuan Feng , Yuxuan Zhou , Siyu Mei , Dongzhan Zhou , Pengwei Wang , Shaowei Cui , Bin Fang , Guocai Yao , Di Hu

Neural fields, also known as implicit neural representations, have emerged as a powerful means to represent complex signals of various modalities. Based on this Dupont et al. (2022) introduce a framework that views neural fields as data,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Matthias Bauer , Emilien Dupont , Andy Brock , Dan Rosenbaum , Jonathan Richard Schwarz , Hyunjik Kim

Due to the complexity of modeling the elastic properties of materials, the use of machine learning algorithms is continuously increasing for tactile sensing applications. Recent advances in deep neural networks applied to computer vision…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Carmelo Sferrazza , Raffaello D'Andrea

Mastering dexterous, contact-rich object manipulation demands precise estimation of both in-hand object poses and external contact locations$\unicode{x2013}$tasks particularly challenging due to partial and noisy observations. We present…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jayjun Lee , Nima Fazeli

Implicit neural representation (INR) has proven to be accurate and efficient in various domains. In this work, we explore how different neural networks can be designed as a new texture INR, which operates in a continuous manner rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Albert Kwok , Zheyuan Hu , Dounia Hammou

Tactile sensing plays an important role in robotic perception and manipulation tasks. To overcome the real-world limitations of data collection, simulating tactile response in a virtual environment comes as a desirable direction of robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Yikai Wang , Wenbing Huang , Bin Fang , Fuchun Sun , Chang Li

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have emerged as a paradigm in knowledge representation, offering exceptional flexibility and performance across a diverse range of applications. INRs leverage multilayer perceptrons (MLPs) to model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Amer Essakine , Yanqi Cheng , Chun-Wun Cheng , Lipei Zhang , Zhongying Deng , Lei Zhu , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

Tactile displays that lend tangible form to digital content could transform computing interactions. However, achieving the resolution, speed, and dynamic range needed for perceptual fidelity remains challenging. We present a tactile display…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Max Linnander , Dustin Goetz , Gregory Reardon , Vijay Kumar , Elliot Hawkes , Yon Visell

The field of robotic manipulation has advanced significantly in recent years. At the sensing level, several novel tactile sensors have been developed, capable of providing accurate contact information. On a methodological level, learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Niklas Funk , Changqi Chen , Tim Schneider , Georgia Chalvatzaki , Roberto Calandra , Jan Peters

Mobile robots operating indoors must be prepared to navigate challenging scenes that contain transparent surfaces. This paper proposes a novel method for the fusion of acoustic and visual sensing modalities through implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Advaith V. Sethuraman , Onur Bagoren , Harikrishnan Seetharaman , Dalton Richardson , Joseph Taylor , Katherine A. Skinner

Professional photo editing remains challenging, requiring extensive knowledge of imaging pipelines and significant expertise. While recent deep learning approaches, particularly style transfer methods, have attempted to automate this…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-12-11 Omar Elezabi , Marcos V. Conde , Zongwei Wu , Radu Timofte

In this work, we propose a novel method to supervise 3D Gaussian Splatting (3DGS) scenes using optical tactile sensors. Optical tactile sensors have become widespread in their use in robotics for manipulation and object representation;…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Aiden Swann , Matthew Strong , Won Kyung Do , Gadiel Sznaier Camps , Mac Schwager , Monroe Kennedy

We present a novel 3D mapping method leveraging the recent progress in neural implicit representation for 3D reconstruction. Most existing state-of-the-art neural implicit representation methods are limited to object-level reconstructions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Stefan Lionar , Lukas Schmid , Cesar Cadena , Roland Siegwart , Andrei Cramariuc

Tactile sensing is an essential perception for robots to complete dexterous tasks. As a promising tactile sensing technique, vision-based tactile sensors have been developed to improve robot performance in manipulation and grasping. Here we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Guanlan Zhang , Yipai Du , Hongyu Yu , Michael Yu Wang

Deep implicit functions (DIFs), as a kind of 3D shape representation, are becoming more and more popular in the 3D vision community due to their compactness and strong representation power. However, unlike polygon mesh-based templates, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-14 Zerong Zheng , Tao Yu , Qionghai Dai , Yebin Liu

Robotics research has long sought to give robots the ability to perceive the physical world through touch in an analogous manner to many biological systems. Developing such tactile capabilities is important for numerous emerging…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Shan Luo , Nathan F. Lepora , Wenzhen Yuan , Kaspar Althoefer , Gordon Cheng , Ravinder Dahiya