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Estimating 2D-3D correspondences between RGB images and 3D space is a fundamental problem in 6D object pose estimation. Recent pose estimators use dense correspondence maps and Point-to-Point algorithms to estimate object poses. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Peter Hönig , Stefan Thalhammer , Markus Vincze

We propose MonoSE(3)-Diffusion, a monocular SE(3) diffusion framework that formulates markerless, image-based robot pose estimation as a conditional denoising diffusion process. The framework consists of two processes: a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Kangjian Zhu , Haobo Jiang , Yigong Zhang , Jianjun Qian , Jian Yang , Jin Xie

This paper addresses the challenging problem of category-level pose estimation. Current state-of-the-art methods for this task face challenges when dealing with symmetric objects and when attempting to generalize to new environments solely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Takuya Ikeda , Sergey Zakharov , Tianyi Ko , Muhammad Zubair Irshad , Robert Lee , Katherine Liu , Rares Ambrus , Koichi Nishiwaki

Monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE) often encounters challenges such as depth ambiguity and occlusion during the 2D-to-3D lifting process. Additionally, traditional methods may overlook multi-scale skeleton features when utilizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Bing Han , Yuhua Huang , Pan Gao

Estimating the 6D pose of novel objects is a fundamental yet challenging problem in robotics, often relying on access to object CAD models. However, acquiring such models can be costly and impractical. Recent approaches aim to bypass this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-25 Zhaodong Jiang , Ashish Sinha , Tongtong Cao , Yuan Ren , Bingbing Liu , Binbin Xu

Fully-supervised category-level pose estimation aims to determine the 6-DoF poses of unseen instances from known categories, requiring expensive mannual labeling costs. Recently, various self-supervised category-level pose estimation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Jingtao Sun , Yaonan Wang , Mingtao Feng , Chao Ding , Mike Zheng Shou , Ajmal Saeed Mian

Current RGB-based 6D object pose estimation methods have achieved noticeable performance on datasets and real world applications. However, predicting 6D pose from single 2D image features is susceptible to disturbance from changing of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Jun Wu , Lilu Liu , Yue Wang , Rong Xiong

We present Acc3D to tackle the challenge of accelerating the diffusion process to generate 3D models from single images. To derive high-quality reconstructions through few-step inferences, we emphasize the critical issue of regularizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Kendong Liu , Zhiyu Zhu , Hui Liu , Junhui Hou

We present a novel diffusion-based approach for coherent 3D scene reconstruction from a single RGB image. Our method utilizes an image-conditioned 3D scene diffusion model to simultaneously denoise the 3D poses and geometries of all objects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Manuel Dahnert , Angela Dai , Norman Müller , Matthias Nießner

3D human pose estimation from 2D images is a challenging problem due to depth ambiguity and occlusion. Because of these challenges the task is underdetermined, where there exists multiple -- possibly infinite -- poses that are plausible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Francis Snelgar , Ming Xu , Stephen Gould , Liang Zheng , Akshay Asthana

Articulated object pose estimation is a core task in embodied AI. Existing methods typically regress poses in a continuous space, but often struggle with 1) navigating a large, complex search space and 2) failing to incorporate intrinsic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Li Zhang , Mingyu Mei , Ailing Wang , Xianhui Meng , Yan Zhong , Xinyuan Song , Liu Liu , Rujing Wang , Zaixing He , Cewu Lu

We introduce GazeD, a new 3D gaze estimation method that jointly provides 3D gaze and human pose from a single RGB image. Leveraging the ability of diffusion models to deal with uncertainty, it generates multiple plausible 3D gaze and pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Riccardo Catalini , Davide Di Nucci , Guido Borghi , Davide Davoli , Lorenzo Garattoni , Gianpiero Francesca , Yuki Kawana , Roberto Vezzani

Continuous diffusion models have demonstrated their effectiveness in addressing the inherent uncertainty and indeterminacy in monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE). Despite their strengths, the need for large search spaces and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Weiquan Wang , Jun Xiao , Chunping Wang , Wei Liu , Zhao Wang , Long Chen

Accurate 3D human pose estimation remains a critical yet unresolved challenge, requiring both temporal coherence across frames and fine-grained modeling of joint relationships. However, most existing methods rely solely on geometric cues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Jerrin Bright , Yuhao Chen , John S. Zelek

Pose estimation refers to tracking a human's full body posture, including their head, torso, arms, and legs. The problem is challenging in practical settings where the number of body sensors are limited. Past work has shown promising…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Sahil Bhandary Karnoor , Romit Roy Choudhury

Score-based diffusion models provide a powerful way to model images using the gradient of the data distribution. Leveraging the learned score function as a prior, here we introduce a way to sample data from a conditional distribution given…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-19 Hyungjin Chung , Jong Chul Ye

Category-level object pose estimation aims to find 6D object poses of previously unseen object instances from known categories without access to object CAD models. To reduce the huge amount of pose annotations needed for category-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-02 Xiaolong Li , Yijia Weng , Li Yi , Leonidas Guibas , A. Lynn Abbott , Shuran Song , He Wang

6D object pose estimation is an important task that determines the 3D position and 3D rotation of an object in camera-centred coordinates. By utilizing such a task, one can propose promising solutions for various problems related to scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Caner Sahin , Guillermo Garcia-Hernando , Juil Sock , Tae-Kyun Kim

Sampling viable 3D structures (e.g., molecules and point clouds) with SE(3)-invariance using diffusion-based models proved promising in a variety of real-world applications, wherein SE(3)-invariant properties can be naturally characterized…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Zihan Zhou , Ruiying Liu , Jiachen Zheng , Xiaoxue Wang , Tianshu Yu

3D object pose estimation is a challenging task. Previous works always require thousands of object images with annotated poses for learning the 3D pose correspondence, which is laborious and time-consuming for labeling. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Fengrui Tian , Yaoyao Liu , Adam Kortylewski , Yueqi Duan , Shaoyi Du , Alan Yuille , Angtian Wang