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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 explore a novel method to perceive and manipulate 3D articulated objects that generalizes to enable a robot to articulate unseen classes of objects. We propose a vision-based system that learns to predict the potential motions of the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Ben Eisner , Harry Zhang , David Held

Articulated objects are common in the real world, yet modeling their structure and motion remains a challenging task for 3D reconstruction methods. In this work, we introduce Part$^{2}$GS, a novel framework for modeling articulated digital…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Tianjiao Yu , Vedant Shah , Muntasir Wahed , Ying Shen , Kiet A. Nguyen , Ismini Lourentzou

Rendering articulated objects while controlling their poses is critical to applications such as virtual reality or animation for movies. Manipulating the pose of an object, however, requires the understanding of its underlying structure,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Atsuhiro Noguchi , Umar Iqbal , Jonathan Tremblay , Tatsuya Harada , Orazio Gallo

Autonomous robots operating in real-world environments encounter a variety of objects that can be both rigid and articulated in nature. Having knowledge of these specific object properties not only helps in designing appropriate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Ayush Aggarwal , Rustam Stolkin , Naresh Marturi

Articulation modeling enables robots to learn joint parameters of articulated objects for effective manipulation which can then be used downstream for skill learning or planning. Existing approaches often rely on prior knowledge about the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Anmol Gupta , Weiwei Gu , Omkar Patil , Jun Ki Lee , Nakul Gopalan

Perceiving and manipulating 3D articulated objects (e.g., cabinets, doors) in human environments is an important yet challenging task for future home-assistant robots. The space of 3D articulated objects is exceptionally rich in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Ruihai Wu , Yan Zhao , Kaichun Mo , Zizheng Guo , Yian Wang , Tianhao Wu , Qingnan Fan , Xuelin Chen , Leonidas Guibas , Hao Dong

Parametric 3D models have formed a fundamental role in modeling deformable objects, such as human bodies, faces, and hands; however, the construction of such parametric models requires significant manual intervention and domain expertise.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-21 Pablo Palafox , Nikolaos Sarafianos , Tony Tung , Angela Dai

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

Robots working in human environments often encounter a wide range of articulated objects, such as tools, cabinets, and other jointed objects. Such articulated objects can take an infinite number of possible poses, as a point in a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Karthik Desingh , Shiyang Lu , Anthony Opipari , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

Articulated objects pose diverse manipulation challenges for robots. Since their internal structures are not directly observable, robots must adaptively explore and refine actions to generate successful manipulation trajectories. While…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Xiaojie Zhang , Yuanfei Wang , Ruihai Wu , Kunqi Xu , Yu Li , Liuyu Xiang , Hao Dong , Zhaofeng He

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

Interactive 3D simulated objects are crucial in AR/VR, animations, and robotics, driving immersive experiences and advanced automation. However, creating these articulated objects requires extensive human effort and expertise, limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Long Le , Jason Xie , William Liang , Hung-Ju Wang , Yue Yang , Yecheng Jason Ma , Kyle Vedder , Arjun Krishna , Dinesh Jayaraman , Eric Eaton

Articulated object manipulation is a critical capability for robots to perform various tasks in real-world scenarios. Composed of multiple parts connected by joints, articulated objects are endowed with diverse functional mechanisms through…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yuanfei Wang , Xiaojie Zhang , Ruihai Wu , Yu Li , Yan Shen , Mingdong Wu , Zhaofeng He , Yizhou Wang , Hao Dong

We propose ArtiLatent, a generative framework that synthesizes human-made 3D objects with fine-grained geometry, accurate articulation, and realistic appearance. Our approach jointly models part geometry and articulation dynamics by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Honghua Chen , Yushi Lan , Yongwei Chen , Xingang Pan

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

Generalizable articulated object manipulation is essential for home-assistant robots. Recent efforts focus on imitation learning from demonstrations or reinforcement learning in simulation, however, due to the prohibitive costs of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Wenke Xia , Dong Wang , Xincheng Pang , Zhigang Wang , Bin Zhao , Di Hu , Xuelong Li

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

Robots working in human environments must be able to perceive and act on challenging objects with articulations, such as a pile of tools. Articulated objects increase the dimensionality of the pose estimation problem, and partial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jana Pavlasek , Stanley Lewis , Karthik Desingh , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

Manipulating articulated objects with robotic arms is challenging due to the complex kinematic structure, which requires precise part segmentation for efficient manipulation. In this work, we introduce a novel superpoint-based perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Qiaojun Yu , Ce Hao , Xibin Yuan , Li Zhang , Liu Liu , Yukang Huo , Rohit Agarwal , Cewu Lu