TacGen: Touch Is a Necessary Dimension of Physical-World Representation -- Addressing Tactile Data Scarcity with Scalable Vision-to-Touch Alignment and Generation

Wanghao Ye, Aarosh Das, Sihan Chen +19

Touch resolves the physical-property ambiguity left by vision: exploratory contact recovers shape, texture, compliance, and material, and visuo-haptic object representations conver…