qui 02 janeiro 2020
ICRA 2020 ViTac workshop Program
ViTac 2020: Closing the Perception-Action Loop with Vision and Tactile Sensing
Time: 9am-6:30pm (Paris Time), Sunday 31st May 2020
The workshop will take place online (live) via Zoom.
To participate in the workshop, please register here for the Zoom meeting.
Participation will be free of charge.
Workshop Slack channel to ask questions to speakers in addition to live discussions (you need to join the ICRA 2020 Slack workspace first).
Recordings of the workshop have been uploaded to our YouTube channel.We had around 500 registrations!
The chat texts in the meeting: morning session and afternoon session.
All the following times are in Paris Time.
| Time | Speaker | Title |
| 09:00 – 09:10 | Organizers | Opening & Welcome |
Session 1:
| 09:10-9:35 | Shan Luo, University of Liverpool |
Session Intro & Visuo-Tactile Robotic Perception |
| 09:35-10:00 | Robert Haschke, Bielefeld University | Invited talk: Tactile-servoing based manipulation |
| 10:00-10:25 | Huaping Liu, Tsinghua University |
Invited talk: Active Multi-Modal Perception |
| 10:25-10:50 | Lorenzo Natale, IIT |
Invited talk: From object detection to pose estimation using visual and tactile feedback |
Session 2:
| 10:50-11:15 | Nathan Lepora, University of Bristol | Session intro & Optical tactile sensing with a human touch |
| 11:15-11:40 | Kaspar Althoefer, Queen Mary University of
London |
Invited talk: The integrated force/tactile sensor – A vision-based approach |
| 11:40-12:20 | Vincent Hayward, UPMC (Keynote) | Invited talk: Latest results concerning the mechanics of touch |
| 12:20-12:30 | Lightning presenters | Lightning presentations (5mins each) [12:20-12:25] Accurate estimation of the 3D contact force distribution with an optical tactile sensor (Live demonstration). Carmelo Sferrazza and Raffaello D’Andrea [pdf] [12:25-12:30] STAM: An Attention Model for Tactile Texture Recognition. Guanqun Cao and Shan Luo [pdf] |
12:30 – 14:20 Lunch Break
Session 3:
| 14:20-14:50 | Gordon Cheng, Technische Universität München (TUM) | Session Intro & Realising Humanoid Multi-Modal Close-loop Perception-Action |
| 14:50-15:30 | Peter Allen, Columbia University (Keynote) | Invited talk: Generative Attention Learning: A “GenerAL” Framework for High-Performance Multi-Fingered Grasping in Clutter Using Vision and Touch |
| 15:30-16:00 | Lightning presentations & Discussions | Lightning presentations (5mins each) [15:30-15:35] Sim2Real for Peg-Hole Insertion with Eye-in-Hand Camera. Damian Bogunowicz, Aleksandr Rybnikov, Komal Vendidandi and Fedor Chervinskii [pdf] [15:35-15:40] Exploiting touch sensing around fingers. Daniel Fernandes Gomes, Zhonglin and Shan Luo [pdf] [15:40-15:45] Object pose estimation with geometry and tactile image matching. Maria Bauza Villalonga and Alberto Rodrigeuz [pdf] [15:45-15:50] Incremental shape and pose estimation from planar pushing using contact implicit surfaces. Sudharshan Suresh, Joshua Mangelson and Michael Kaess [pdf] [15:50-16:00] Discussions |
Session 4:
| 16:00-16:25 | Wenzhen Yuan, CMU | Session Intro & Connecting touch and vision for object property perception |
| 16:25-16:50 | Roberto Calandra, Facebook | Invited talk: Towards in-hand manipulation from vision and touch |
| 16:50-17:30 | Dieter Fox, University of Washington and Nvidia (Keynote) | Invited talk: Learning and Modeling Touch |
| 17:30-17:55 | Alberto Rodriguez, MIT | Invited talk: Tactile-driven Dexterity: Object localization, manipulation, and assembly |
| 17:55-18:30 | Speakers & attendees | Group discussion |
| 18:30 | Finish |
Support of IEEE RAS Technical Committees
- Haptics,
- Human-Robot Interaction and Coordination,
- Computer and Robot Vision,
- Cognitive Robotics.