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What blows my mind is the concept of sensor fusion and how it works in the brain. How you can infer the shape of an object by progressively touching it with yo
by 29athrowaway 6y ago
What blows my mind is the concept of sensor fusion and how it works in the brain.
How you can infer the shape of an object by progressively touching it with your fingers even if you cannot see it. Try to implement an algorithm or ML solution that does this and you'll know how insanely hard this problem is.
- rebelos 6y agoCould you elaborate on this a bit? I don't have familiarity with that class of problems, so I'm having trouble understanding the obstacles. My naive instinct is that you would detect and store points of contact between the sensor surface and the object while also positionally tracking the sensor in 3D space relative to an origin. You would certainly need a lot of precision in movement tracking to minimize error. Maybe that's where it gets tricky? Also worth noting that the problem feels somewhat moot since there are easier solutions (e.g. lidar).
- 29athrowaway 6y agoLidar is pretty expensive in terms of energy consumption.