no code implementations • 21 Nov 2023 • Mauro Comi, Yijiong Lin, Alex Church, Alessio Tonioni, Laurence Aitchison, Nathan F. Lepora
To address these challenges, we propose TouchSDF, a Deep Learning approach for tactile 3D shape reconstruction that leverages the rich information provided by a vision-based tactile sensor and the expressivity of the implicit neural representation DeepSDF.
no code implementations • 26 Jul 2023 • Yijiong Lin, Mauro Comi, Alex Church, Dandan Zhang, Nathan F. Lepora
To improve the robustness of tactile robot control in unstructured environments, we propose and study a new concept: \textit{tactile saliency} for robot touch, inspired by the human touch attention mechanism from neuroscience and the visual saliency prediction problem from computer vision.
no code implementations • 26 Aug 2022 • Anupam K. Gupta, Alex Church, Nathan F. Lepora
The sense of touch is fundamental to human dexterity.
2 code implementations • 16 Jun 2021 • Alex Church, John Lloyd, Raia Hadsell, Nathan F. Lepora
Simulation has recently become key for deep reinforcement learning to safely and efficiently acquire general and complex control policies from visual and proprioceptive inputs.
1 code implementation • 6 Aug 2020 • Alex Church, John Lloyd, Raia Hadsell, Nathan F. Lepora
Artificial touch would seem well-suited for Reinforcement Learning (RL), since both paradigms rely on interaction with an environment.