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3D object generation has undergone significant advancements, yielding high-quality results. However, fall short of achieving precise user control, often yielding results that do not align with user expectations, thus limiting their…

Graphics · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Shaocong Dong , Lihe Ding , Zhanpeng Huang , Zibin Wang , Tianfan Xue , Dan Xu

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

Articulated 3D objects are central to many applications in robotics, AR/VR, and animation. Recent approaches to modeling such objects either rely on optimization-based reconstruction pipelines that require dense-view supervision or on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Chuhao Chen , Isabella Liu , Xinyue Wei , Hao Su , Minghua Liu

3D generative AI enables rapid and accessible creation of 3D models from text or image inputs. However, translating these outputs into physical objects remains a challenge due to the constraints in the physical world. Recent studies have…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Alexander Htet Kyaw , Se Hwan Jeon , Miana Smith , Neil Gershenfeld

Generating realistic animated videos from static images is an important area of research in computer vision. Methods based on physical simulation and motion prediction have achieved notable advances, but they are often limited to specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Qiang Wang , Minghua Liu , Junjun Hu , Fan Jiang , Mu Xu

We present RELATE, a model that learns to generate physically plausible scenes and videos of multiple interacting objects. Similar to other generative approaches, RELATE is trained end-to-end on raw, unlabeled data. RELATE combines an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Sebastien Ehrhardt , Oliver Groth , Aron Monszpart , Martin Engelcke , Ingmar Posner , Niloy Mitra , Andrea Vedaldi

3D articulated objects are inherently challenging for manipulation due to the varied geometries and intricate functionalities associated with articulated objects.Point-level affordance, which predicts the per-point actionable score and thus…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Suhan Ling , Yian Wang , Shiguang Wu , Yuzheng Zhuang , Tianyi Xu , Yu Li , Chang Liu , Hao Dong

Articulated 3D objects play a vital role in realistic simulation and embodied robotics, yet manually constructing such assets remains costly and difficult to scale. In this paper, we present UniArt, a diffusion-based framework that directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Bu Jin , Weize Li , Songen Gu , Yupeng Zheng , Yuhang Zheng , Zhengyi Zhou , Yao Yao

We seek to give users precise control over diffusion-based image generation by modeling complex scenes as sequences of layers, which define the desired spatial arrangement and visual attributes of objects in the scene. Collage Diffusion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Vishnu Sarukkai , Linden Li , Arden Ma , Christopher Ré , Kayvon Fatahalian

Synthesizing visual content that meets users' needs often requires flexible and precise controllability of the pose, shape, expression, and layout of the generated objects. Existing approaches gain controllability of generative adversarial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Xingang Pan , Ayush Tewari , Thomas Leimkühler , Lingjie Liu , Abhimitra Meka , Christian Theobalt

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

Simulation is a central tool for scalable robot learning, but its effectiveness depends on the quality of object assets. While modern 3D datasets provide rich geometric and kinematic representations, they typically lack the physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Anh-Quan Pham

The generation of sounding videos has seen significant advancements with the advent of diffusion models. However, existing methods often lack the fine-grained control needed to generate viewpoint-specific content from larger, immersive…

Articulated objects (e.g., doors and drawers) exist everywhere in our life. Different from rigid objects, articulated objects have higher degrees of freedom and are rich in geometries, semantics, and part functions. Modeling different kinds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yushi Du , Ruihai Wu , Yan Shen , Hao Dong

While NeRF-based 3D-aware image generation methods enable viewpoint control, limitations still remain to be adopted to various 3D applications. Due to their view-dependent and light-entangled volume representation, the 3D geometry presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Minsoo Lee , Chaeyeon Chung , Hojun Cho , Minjung Kim , Sanghun Jung , Jaegul Choo , Minhyuk Sung

Material reconstruction from a photograph is a key component of 3D content creation democratization. We propose to formulate this ill-posed problem as a controlled synthesis one, leveraging the recent progress in generative deep networks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-28 Giuseppe Vecchio , Rosalie Martin , Arthur Roullier , Adrien Kaiser , Romain Rouffet , Valentin Deschaintre , Tamy Boubekeur

This paper presents a novel object-centric contact representation ContactGen for hand-object interaction. The ContactGen comprises three components: a contact map indicates the contact location, a part map represents the contact hand part,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Shaowei Liu , Yang Zhou , Jimei Yang , Saurabh Gupta , Shenlong Wang

We present ArtMesh, a mesh-native method for reconstructing articulated objects explicitly as connected triangle meshes with per-part rigid motion from multi-view images in start and end states. Existing 3D Gaussian Splatting pipelines for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sylvia Yuan , Dan Wang , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Xinrui Cui

Articulated objects are fundamental for robotics, simulation of physics, and interactive virtual environments. However, reconstructing them from visual input remains challenging, as it requires jointly inferring both part geometry and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Zhuangzhe Wu , Yue Xin , Chengkai Hou , Minghao Chen , Yaoxu Lyu , Jieyu Zhang , Shanghang Zhang

Legged manipulators offer high mobility and versatile manipulation. However, robust interaction with heterogeneous articulated objects, such as doors, drawers, and cabinets, remains challenging because of the diverse articulation types of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Seonghyeon Lim , Hyeonwoo Lee , Seunghyun Lee , I Made Aswin Nahrendra , Hyun Myung