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ArtGen: Conditional Generative Modeling of Articulated Objects in Arbitrary Part-Level States

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-12-16 v1

Abstract

Generating articulated assets is crucial for robotics, digital twins, and embodied intelligence. Existing generative models often rely on single-view inputs representing closed states, resulting in ambiguous or unrealistic kinematic structures due to the entanglement between geometric shape and joint dynamics. To address these challenges, we introduce ArtGen, a conditional diffusion-based framework capable of generating articulated 3D objects with accurate geometry and coherent kinematics from single-view images or text descriptions at arbitrary part-level states. Specifically, ArtGen employs cross-state Monte Carlo sampling to explicitly enforce global kinematic consistency, reducing structural-motion entanglement. Additionally, we integrate a Chain-of-Thought reasoning module to infer robust structural priors, such as part semantics, joint types, and connectivity, guiding a sparse-expert Diffusion Transformer to specialize in diverse kinematic interactions. Furthermore, a compositional 3D-VAE latent prior enhanced with local-global attention effectively captures fine-grained geometry and global part-level relationships. Extensive experiments on the PartNet-Mobility benchmark demonstrate that ArtGen significantly outperforms state-of-the-art methods.

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@article{arxiv.2512.12395,
  title  = {ArtGen: Conditional Generative Modeling of Articulated Objects in Arbitrary Part-Level States},
  author = {Haowen Wang and Xiaoping Yuan and Fugang Zhang and Rui Jian and Yuanwei Zhu and Xiuquan Qiao and Yakun Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.12395},
  year   = {2025}
}