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Recent advancements in 3D robotic manipulation have improved grasping of everyday objects, but transparent and specular materials remain challenging due to depth sensing limitations. While several 3D reconstruction and depth completion…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Mingxu Zhang , Xiaoqi Li , Jiahui Xu , Kaichen Zhou , Hojin Bae , Yan Shen , Chuyan Xiong , Hao Dong

This paper addresses the problem of image matting for transparent objects. Existing approaches often require tedious capturing procedures and long processing time, which limit their practical use. In this paper, we formulate transparent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-29 Guanying Chen , Kai Han , Kwan-Yee K. Wong

Object pose estimation is a prominent task in computer vision. The object pose gives the orientation and translation of the object in real-world space, which allows various applications such as manipulation, augmented reality, etc. Various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Varun Burde , Artem Moroz , Vit Zeman , Pavel Burget

Mobile robots operating indoors must be prepared to navigate challenging scenes that contain transparent surfaces. This paper proposes a novel method for the fusion of acoustic and visual sensing modalities through implicit neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Advaith V. Sethuraman , Onur Bagoren , Harikrishnan Seetharaman , Dalton Richardson , Joseph Taylor , Katherine A. Skinner

Understanding the 3D geometry of transparent objects from RGB images is challenging due to their inherent physical properties, such as reflection and refraction. To address these difficulties, especially in scenarios with sparse views and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jeongyun Kim , Seunghoon Jeong , Giseop Kim , Myung-Hwan Jeon , Eunji Jun , Ayoung Kim

6D object pose estimation is crucial for robotic perception and precise manipulation. Occlusion and incomplete object visibility are common challenges in this task, but existing pose refinement methods often struggle to handle these issues…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Xin Liu , Shibei Xue , Dezong Zhao , Shan Ma , Min Jiang

Estimating surface reflectance (BRDF) is one key component for complete 3D scene capture, with wide applications in virtual reality, augmented reality, and human computer interaction. Prior work is either limited to controlled environments…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Kihwan Kim , Jinwei Gu , Stephen Tyree , Pavlo Molchanov , Matthias Nießner , Jan Kautz

Precomputed Radiance Transfer (PRT) is widely used for real-time photorealistic effects. PRT disentangles the rendering equation into transfer and lighting, enabling their precomputation. Transfer accounts for the cosine-weighted visibility…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Sirikonda Dhawal , Aakash KT , P. J. Narayanan

Due to the optical properties, transparent objects often lead depth cameras to generate incomplete or invalid depth data, which in turn reduces the accuracy and reliability of robotic grasping. Existing approaches typically input the RGB-D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Yaofeng Cheng , Xinkai Gao , Sen Zhang , Chao Zeng , Fusheng Zha , Lining Sun , Chenguang Yang

In this paper, we tackle the problem of grasping transparent and specular objects. This issue holds importance, yet it remains unsolved within the field of robotics due to failure of recover their accurate geometry by depth cameras. For the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Jun Shi , Yong A , Yixiang Jin , Dingzhe Li , Haoyu Niu , Zhezhu Jin , He Wang

Transparent objects present multiple distinct challenges to visual perception systems. First, their lack of distinguishing visual features makes transparent objects harder to detect and localize than opaque objects. Even humans find certain…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Huijie Zhang , Anthony Opipari , Xiaotong Chen , Jiyue Zhu , Zeren Yu , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

Transparent object perception is a rapidly developing research problem in artificial intelligence. The ability to perceive transparent objects enables robots to achieve higher levels of autonomy, unlocking new applications in various…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jiaqi Jiang , Guanqun Cao , Jiankang Deng , Thanh-Toan Do , Shan Luo

Objects we interact with and manipulate often share similar parts, such as handles, that allow us to transfer our actions flexibly due to their shared functionality. This work addresses the problem of transferring a grasp experience or a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Ahmet Tekden , Marc Peter Deisenroth , Yasemin Bekiroglu

Generalizable neural surface reconstruction techniques have attracted great attention in recent years. However, they encounter limitations of low confidence depth distribution and inaccurate surface reasoning due to the oversimplified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Yixun Liang , Hao He , Ying-cong Chen

Transparent and reflective objects in everyday environments pose significant challenges for depth sensors due to their unique visual properties, such as specular reflections and light transmission. These characteristics often lead to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Guanghu Xie , Zhiduo Jiang , Yonglong Zhang , Yang Liu , Zongwu Xie , Baoshi Cao , Hong Liu

Robotic research encounters a significant hurdle when it comes to the intricate task of grasping objects that come in various shapes, materials, and textures. Unlike many prior investigations that heavily leaned on specialized point-cloud…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Chang Liu , Kejian Shi , Kaichen Zhou , Haoxiao Wang , Jiyao Zhang , Hao Dong

Transparent and specular objects are frequently encountered in daily life, factories, and laboratories. However, due to the unique optical properties, the depth information on these objects is usually incomplete and inaccurate, which poses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Yizhe Liu , Tong Jia , Da Cai , Hao Wang , Dongyue Chen

In this work, we propose a novel method for the detailed reconstruction of transparent objects by exploiting polarimetric cues. Most of the existing methods usually lack sufficient constraints and suffer from the over-smooth problem. Hence,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-26 Mingqi Shao , Chongkun Xia , Dongxu Duan , Xueqian Wang

Transparent objects remain notoriously hard for perception systems: refraction, reflection and transmission break the assumptions behind stereo, ToF and purely discriminative monocular depth, causing holes and temporally unstable estimates.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Shaocong Xu , Songlin Wei , Qizhe Wei , Zheng Geng , Hong Li , Licheng Shen , Qianpu Sun , Shu Han , Bin Ma , Bohan Li , Chongjie Ye , Yuhang Zheng , Nan Wang , Saining Zhang , Hao Zhao

The accurate detection and grasping of transparent objects are challenging but of significance to robots. Here, a visual-tactile fusion framework for transparent object grasping under complex backgrounds and variant light conditions is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Shoujie Li , Haixin Yu , Wenbo Ding , Houde Liu , Linqi Ye , Chongkun Xia , Xueqian Wang , Xiao-Ping Zhang