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PyTouch: A Machine Learning Library for Touch Processing (arxiv.org)
2 points by lnyan on May 28, 2021 | hide | past | pdf | discuss on HN

In plain words: PyTouch is a free, open toolkit that turns raw readings from touch sensors into useful signals, like whether a finger is touching, slipping, or how an object is positioned. It was tested on real data from several sensors and handled all three tasks.

Abstract

With the increased availability of rich tactile sensors, there is an equally proportional need for open-source and integrated software capable of efficiently and effectively processing raw touch measurements into high-level signals that can be used for control and decision-making. In this paper, we present PyTouch -- the first machine learning library dedicated to the processing of touch sensing signals. PyTouch, is designed to be modular, easy-to-use and provides state-of-the-art touch processing capabilities as a service with the goal of unifying the tactile sensing community by providing a library for building scalable, proven, and performance-validated modules over which applications and research can be built upon. We evaluate PyTouch on real-world data from several tactile sensors on touch processing tasks such as touch detection, slip and object pose estimations. PyTouch is open-sourced at https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytouch .

Mike Lambeta, Huazhe Xu, Jingwei Xu, Po-Wei Chou, Shaoxiong Wang, Trevor Darrell, Roberto Calandra
arXiv:2105.12791 · cs.RO, cs.HC, cs.LG · submitted May 26, 2021
abstract · pdf · html · 7 pages. Accepted at ICRA 2021

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