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Language-Guided Representation Learning for Robust Cross-Sensor Material Recognition

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 13, 2026 · UTC

Robots need touch to manipulate objects safely and reliably, as many properties, such as softness, texture, and contact stability, are hard to infer from vision alone. However, vision-based tactile sensors yield different observations of the same material due to variations in optics, elastomer properties, and illumination, leading to poor generalization when trained on a single or multiple sensors. We propose a language-guided distillation framework for learning sensor-robust tactile representations. Language encodes high-level semantic properties of touch (e.g., rough, soft, slippery) that re

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