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TouchSight: Bare-Handed Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Video via Generative Visual Augmentation

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TL;DR - TouchSight predicts dense, full-hand contact forces from monocular egocentric video, avoiding tactile instrumentation at capture time. It bridges gloved training data and bare-hand scenarios using generative video augmentation that preserves measured tactile labels.

  • Trained with 500 hours of pressure-glove recordings and extensive hand-object interaction data.
  • Introduces TwinTouch-20H, containing 20 hours of paired data where gloved videos are re-rendered as bare hands against new backgrounds.
  • Outperforms prior contact-prediction methods on OakInk2 and qualitatively generalizes to unseen natural bare-hand videos.
  • Prediction performance improves consistently as pressure-glove supervision scales.

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TouchSight: Bare-Handed Tactile Prediction from Egocentric Video via Generative Visual Augmentation

arXiv cs.CV Danyan Zhou, Jinxuan Lu, Jiawei Lin, Tianxing Chen, Chuqiao Lyu, Wenbo Ding 2026-09-17 arXiv:2609.20414
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TL;DR - TouchSight predicts dense, full-hand contact forces from monocular egocentric video, avoiding tactile instrumentation at capture time. It bridges gloved training data and bare-hand scenarios using generative video augmentation that preserves measured tactile labels.

  • Trained with 500 hours of pressure-glove recordings and extensive hand-object interaction data.
  • Introduces TwinTouch-20H, containing 20 hours of paired data where gloved videos are re-rendered as bare hands against new backgrounds.
  • Outperforms prior contact-prediction methods on OakInk2 and qualitatively generalizes to unseen natural bare-hand videos.
  • Prediction performance improves consistently as pressure-glove supervision scales.
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