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6D pose estimation of textureless objects is a valuable but challenging task for many robotic applications. In this work, we propose a framework to address this challenge using only RGB images acquired from multiple viewpoints. The core…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Jun Yang , Wenjie Xue , Sahar Ghavidel , Steven L. Waslander

Precise six-degree-of-freedom (6DoF) head pose estimation is crucial for safety-critical applications and human-computer interaction scenarios, yet existing monocular methods still struggle with robust pose estimation. We revisit this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Sungho Chun , Boeun Kim , Hyung Jin Chang , Ju Yong Chang

This paper proposes to use the three vectors in a rotation matrix as the representation in head pose estimation and develops a new neural network based on the characteristic of such representation. We address two potential issues existed in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-10 Zhiwen Cao , Zongcheng Chu , Dongfang Liu , Yingjie Chen

We propose a direct, regression-based approach to 2D human pose estimation from single images. We formulate the problem as a sequence prediction task, which we solve using a Transformer network. This network directly learns a regression…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-21 Weian Mao , Yongtao Ge , Chunhua Shen , Zhi Tian , Xinlong Wang , Zhibin Wang , Anton van den Hengel

This paper presents an end-to-end radar odometry system which delivers robust, real-time pose estimates based on a learned embedding space free of sensing artefacts and distractor objects. The system deploys a fully differentiable,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-20 Dan Barnes , Rob Weston , Ingmar Posner

Head pose estimation plays a vital role in various applications, e.g., driverassistance systems, human-computer interaction, virtual reality technology, and so on. We propose a novel geometry based algorithm for accurately estimating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-06 Hui Yuan , Mengyu Li , Junhui Hou , Jimin Xiao

Head pose estimation has become a crucial area of research in computer vision given its usefulness in a wide range of applications, including robotics, surveillance, or driver attention monitoring. One of the most difficult challenges in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 José Celestino , Manuel Marques , Jacinto C. Nascimento

Estimating the 6D pose of textureless objects from RGB images is an important problem in robotics. Due to appearance ambiguities, rotational symmetries, and severe occlusions, single-view based 6D pose estimators are still unable to handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Jun Yang , Wenjie Xue , Sahar Ghavidel , Steven L. Waslander

Existing 3D surface representation approaches are unable to accurately classify pixels and their orientation lying on the boundary of an object. Thus resulting in coarse representations which usually require post-processing steps to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-23 Mateusz Michalkiewicz , Jhony K. Pontes , Dominic Jack , Mahsa Baktashmotlagh , Anders Eriksson

Detecting objects and their 6D poses from only RGB images is an important task for many robotic applications. While deep learning methods have made significant progress in visual object detection and segmentation, the object pose estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-01 Thanh-Toan Do , Ming Cai , Trung Pham , Ian Reid

We address the challenging problem of RGB image-based head pose estimation. We first reformulate head pose representation learning to constrain it to a bounded space. Head pose represented as vector projection or vector angles shows helpful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-25 Donggen Dai , Wangkit Wong , Zhuojun Chen

6D pose estimation of rigid objects is a long-standing and challenging task in computer vision. Recently, the emergence of deep learning reveals the potential of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to predict reliable 6D poses. Given that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xingyu Liu , Ruida Zhang , Chenyangguang Zhang , Gu Wang , Jiwen Tang , Zhigang Li , Xiangyang Ji

Accurate 6D object pose estimation is an important task for a variety of robotic applications such as grasping or localization. It is a challenging task due to object symmetries, clutter and occlusion, but it becomes more challenging when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Thomas Jantos , Mohamed Amin Hamdad , Wolfgang Granig , Stephan Weiss , Jan Steinbrener

Estimating relative camera poses between images has been a central problem in computer vision. Methods that find correspondences and solve for the fundamental matrix offer high precision in most cases. Conversely, methods predicting pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Chris Rockwell , Nilesh Kulkarni , Linyi Jin , Jeong Joon Park , Justin Johnson , David F. Fouhey

Estimating the 6D pose of objects using only RGB images remains challenging because of problems such as occlusion and symmetries. It is also difficult to construct 3D models with precise texture without expert knowledge or specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Kiru Park , Timothy Patten , Markus Vincze

In recent years, a deep learning framework has been widely used for object pose estimation. While quaternion is a common choice for rotation representation of 6D pose, it cannot represent an uncertainty of the observation. In order to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Hiroya Sato , Takuya Ikeda , Koichi Nishiwaki

Tracking the 6D pose of objects in video sequences is important for robot manipulation. This task, however, introduces multiple challenges: (i) robot manipulation involves significant occlusions; (ii) data and annotations are troublesome…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Bowen Wen , Chaitanya Mitash , Baozhang Ren , Kostas E. Bekris

This study addresses the challenge of accurate 6D pose estimation in Augmented Reality (AR), a critical component for seamlessly integrating virtual objects into real-world environments. Our research primarily addresses the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Mayura Manawadu , Sieun Park , Soon-Yong Park

Human head pose estimation is an essential problem in facial analysis in recent years that has a lot of computer vision applications such as gaze estimation, virtual reality, and driver assistance. Because of the importance of the head pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-26 Chien Thai , Viet Tran , Minh Bui , Huong Ninh , Hai Tran

Practical object pose estimation demands robustness against occlusions to the target object. State-of-the-art (SOTA) object pose estimators take a two-stage approach, where the first stage predicts 2D landmarks using a deep network and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Bo Chen , Tat-Jun Chin , Marius Klimavicius