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Many surface cues support three-dimensional shape perception, but people can sometimes still see shape when these features are missing -- in extreme cases, even when an object is completely occluded, as when covered with a draped cloth. We…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-11 Ilker Yildirim , Max H. Siegel , Amir A. Soltani , Shraman Ray Chaudhari , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

We propose an end-to-end trainable, cross-category method for reconstructing multiple man-made articulated objects from a single RGBD image, focusing on part-level shape reconstruction and pose and kinematics estimation. We depart from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yuki Kawana , Tatsuya Harada

We address the challenge of creating 3D assets for household articulated objects from a single image. Prior work on articulated object creation either requires multi-view multi-state input, or only allows coarse control over the generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jiayi Liu , Denys Iliash , Angel X. Chang , Manolis Savva , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

We introduce ART, Articulated Reconstruction Transformer -- a category-agnostic, feed-forward model that reconstructs complete 3D articulated objects from only sparse, multi-state RGB images. Previous methods for articulated object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Zizhang Li , Cheng Zhang , Zhengqin Li , Henry Howard-Jenkins , Zhaoyang Lv , Chen Geng , Jiajun Wu , Richard Newcombe , Jakob Engel , Zhao Dong

We introduce Structure from Action (SfA), a framework to discover 3D part geometry and joint parameters of unseen articulated objects via a sequence of inferred interactions. Our key insight is that 3D interaction and perception should be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Neil Nie , Samir Yitzhak Gadre , Kiana Ehsani , Shuran Song

We propose a novel unsupervised method to learn the pose and part-segmentation of articulated objects with rigid parts. Given two observations of an object in different articulation states, our method learns the geometry and appearance of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Jianning Deng , Kartic Subr , Hakan Bilen

From dishwashers to cabinets, humans interact with articulated objects every day, and for a robot to assist in common manipulation tasks, it must learn a representation of articulation. Recent deep learning learning methods can provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Russell Buchanan , Adrian Röfer , João Moura , Abhinav Valada , Sethu Vijayakumar

Learning geometry, motion, and appearance priors of object classes is important for the solution of a large variety of computer vision problems. While the majority of approaches has focused on static objects, dynamic objects, especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Fangyin Wei , Rohan Chabra , Lingni Ma , Christoph Lassner , Michael Zollhöfer , Szymon Rusinkiewicz , Chris Sweeney , Richard Newcombe , Mira Slavcheva

Recent work has made significant progress on using implicit functions, as a continuous representation for 3D rigid object shape reconstruction. However, much less effort has been devoted to modeling general articulated objects. Compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-16 Jiteng Mu , Weichao Qiu , Adam Kortylewski , Alan Yuille , Nuno Vasconcelos , Xiaolong Wang

Part segmentation and motion estimation are two fundamental problems for articulated object motion analysis. In this paper, we present a method to solve these two problems jointly from a sequence of observed point clouds of a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jun-Jee Chao , Qingyuan Jiang , Volkan Isler

We introduce an active 3D reconstruction method which integrates visual perception, robot-object interaction, and 3D scanning to recover both the exterior and interior, i.e., unexposed, geometries of a target 3D object. Unlike other works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zihao Yan , Fubao Su , Mingyang Wang , Ruizhen Hu , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

Articulated objects exist widely in the real world. However, previous 3D generative methods for unsupervised part decomposition are unsuitable for such objects, because they assume a spatially fixed part location, resulting in inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yuki Kawana , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Articulated objects are ubiquitous in daily life. Our goal is to achieve a high-quality reconstruction, segmentation of independent moving parts, and analysis of articulation. Recent methods analyse two different articulation states and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Hao Ai , Wenjie Chang , Jianbo Jiao , Ales Leonardis , Ofek Eyal

Robots deployed in human-centric environments may need to manipulate a diverse range of articulated objects, such as doors, dishwashers, and cabinets. Articulated objects often come with unexpected articulation mechanisms that are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Nick Heppert , Toki Migimatsu , Brent Yi , Claire Chen , Jeannette Bohg

We address the problem of unsupervised learning of complex articulated object models from 3D range data. We describe an algorithm whose input is a set of meshes corresponding to different configurations of an articulated object. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Dragomir Anguelov , Daphne Koller , Hoi-Cheung Pang , Praveen Srinivasan , Sebastian Thrun

Articulated objects are ubiquitous and important in robotics, AR/VR, and digital twins. Most self-supervised methods for articulated object modeling reconstruct discrete interaction states and relate them via cross-state geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haowen Wang , Xiaoping Yuan , Zhao Jin , Zhen Zhao , Zhengping Che , Yousong Xue , Jin Tian , Yakun Huang , Jian Tang

We build rearticulable models for arbitrary everyday man-made objects containing an arbitrary number of parts that are connected together in arbitrary ways via 1 degree-of-freedom joints. Given point cloud videos of such everyday objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Shaowei Liu , Saurabh Gupta , Shenlong Wang

We address the task of simultaneous part-level reconstruction and motion parameter estimation for articulated objects. Given two sets of multi-view images of an object in two static articulation states, we decouple the movable part from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jiayi Liu , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Manolis Savva

The last several years have seen significant progress in using depth cameras for tracking articulated objects such as human bodies, hands, and robotic manipulators. Most approaches focus on tracking skeletal parameters of a fixed shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Aaron Walsman , Weilin Wan , Tanner Schmidt , Dieter Fox

Building articulated objects is a key challenge in computer vision. Existing methods often fail to effectively integrate information across different object states, limiting the accuracy of part-mesh reconstruction and part dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yu Liu , Baoxiong Jia , Ruijie Lu , Junfeng Ni , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang