5 papers
Event Cameras versus Frame Cameras for Synthetic-Aperture Imaging: A Simulation Study
Jakob Hinterholzer, Mohamed Youssef, Oliver Bimber
Synthetic-aperture imaging (SAI) removes occluders such as foliage by integrating many views of a scene along a camera path. It has so far been used mainly with frame cameras. We a…
Vision-Based Tactile Intelligence for Robotics: Sensing, Learning, and Embodied Manipulation
Peng Zhou, Jun Hu, Sihan Chen +12
Tactile sensing is essential for robots in contact-rich tasks, yet many tactile sensors still provide sparse, low-dimensional signals that do not capture sufficient information for…
Data Pyramid for Embodied Manipulation: A Survey
Yifan Ye, Yankai Fu, Yaoxu Lv +26
Multimodal foundation models learned to see and to speak by consuming the whole internet. Embodied agents admit no such shortcut, since they require data that couple observations w…
UniTacVLA: Unified Tactile Understanding and Prediction in Vision Language Action Models
Xidong Zhang, Yichi Zhang, Jiaxin Shi +5
Vision-language-action (VLA) models have achieved strong performance in many robotic manipulation tasks, yet remain limited in contact-rich dexterous manipulation. To overcome this…
Quantitative Hardness Assessment with Vision-based Tactile Sensing for Fruit Classification and Grasping
Zhongyuan Liao, Yipai Du, Jianghua Duan +2
Accurate estimation of fruit hardness is essential for automated classification and handling systems, particularly in determining fruit variety, assessing ripeness, and ensuring pr…