Sparse summarization of robotic grasping data

We propose a new approach for learning a summarized representation of high dimensional continuous data. Our technique consists of a Bayesian non-parametric model capable of encoding high-dimensional data from complex distributions using a sparse summarization. Specifically, the method marries techniques from probabilistic dimensionality reduction and clustering. We apply the model to learn efficient representations of grasping data for two robotic scenarios.

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