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Learning Sight from Sound: Ambient Sound Provides Supervision for Visual Learning
Andrew Owens, Jiajun Wu, Josh H. McDermott +2
The sound of crashing waves, the roar of fast-moving cars -- sound conveys important information about the objects in our surroundings. In this work, we show that ambient sounds ca…
The Feeling of Success: Does Touch Sensing Help Predict Grasp Outcomes?
Roberto Calandra, Andrew Owens, Manu Upadhyaya +4
A successful grasp requires careful balancing of the contact forces. Deducing whether a particular grasp will be successful from indirect measurements, such as vision, is therefore…
Shape-independent Hardness Estimation Using Deep Learning and a GelSight Tactile Sensor
Wenzhen Yuan, Chenzhuo Zhu, Andrew Owens +2
Hardness is among the most important attributes of an object that humans learn about through touch. However, approaches for robots to estimate hardness are limited, due to the lack…