ObjectFolder 2.0: A Multisensory Object Dataset for Sim2Real Transfer
This provides a new testbed for multisensory learning in computer vision and robotics, though it is incremental as it builds on ObjectFolder 1.0.
The authors tackled the problem of unrealistic multisensory object modeling by introducing ObjectFolder 2.0, a large-scale dataset with 10 times more objects and improved rendering quality, enabling successful sim2real transfer in tasks like object scale estimation and shape reconstruction.
Objects play a crucial role in our everyday activities. Though multisensory object-centric learning has shown great potential lately, the modeling of objects in prior work is rather unrealistic. ObjectFolder 1.0 is a recent dataset that introduces 100 virtualized objects with visual, acoustic, and tactile sensory data. However, the dataset is small in scale and the multisensory data is of limited quality, hampering generalization to real-world scenarios. We present ObjectFolder 2.0, a large-scale, multisensory dataset of common household objects in the form of implicit neural representations that significantly enhances ObjectFolder 1.0 in three aspects. First, our dataset is 10 times larger in the amount of objects and orders of magnitude faster in rendering time. Second, we significantly improve the multisensory rendering quality for all three modalities. Third, we show that models learned from virtual objects in our dataset successfully transfer to their real-world counterparts in three challenging tasks: object scale estimation, contact localization, and shape reconstruction. ObjectFolder 2.0 offers a new path and testbed for multisensory learning in computer vision and robotics. The dataset is available at https://github.com/rhgao/ObjectFolder.