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Articulated objects are commonly found in daily life. It is essential that robots can exhibit robust perception and manipulation skills for articulated objects in real-world robotic applications. However, existing methods for articulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Junbo Wang , Wenhai Liu , Qiaojun Yu , Yang You , Liu Liu , Weiming Wang , Cewu Lu

Articulated objects like doors, drawers, valves, and tools are pervasive in our everyday unstructured dynamic environments. Articulation models describe the joint nature between the different parts of an articulated object. As most of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Yeshasvi Tirupachuri , Silvio Traversaro , Francesco Nori , Daniele Pucci

A bottleneck in learning to understand articulated 3D objects is the lack of large and diverse datasets. In this paper, we propose to leverage large language models (LLMs) to close this gap and generate articulated assets at scale. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Matt Zhou , Ruining Li , Xiaoyang Lyu , Zhaomou Song , Zhening Huang , Chuanxia Zheng , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi , Shangzhe Wu

High-quality articulated 3D assets are indispensable for embodied AI and physical simulation, yet 3D generation still focuses on static meshes, leaving a gap in "sim-ready" interactive objects. Most recent articulated object creation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Chuanrui Zhang , Minghan Qin , Yuang Wang , Baifeng Xie , Hang Li , Ziwei Wang

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

Articulated objects are central to interactive 3D applications, including embodied AI, robotics, and VR/AR, where functional part decomposition and kinematic motion are essential. Yet producing high-fidelity articulated assets remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Qingming Liu , Xinyue Yao , Shuyuan Zhang , Yueci Deng , Guiliang Liu , Zhen Liu , Kui Jia

While generative models have excelled at creating static 3D content, the pursuit of systems that understand how objects move and respond to interactions remains a fundamental challenge. Current methods for articulated motion lie at a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Tianshan Zhang , Zeyu Zhang , Hao Tang

Estimating 3D articulated shapes like animal bodies from monocular images is inherently challenging due to the ambiguities of camera viewpoint, pose, texture, lighting, etc. We propose ARTIC3D, a self-supervised framework to reconstruct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-08 Chun-Han Yao , Amit Raj , Wei-Chih Hung , Yuanzhen Li , Michael Rubinstein , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Varun Jampani

This work explores expanding the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) pretrained on text to generate 3D meshes within a unified model. This offers key advantages of (1) leveraging spatial knowledge already embedded in LLMs, derived…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Zhengyi Wang , Jonathan Lorraine , Yikai Wang , Hang Su , Jun Zhu , Sanja Fidler , Xiaohui Zeng

Open-vocabulary 3D segmentation enables exploration of 3D spaces using free-form text descriptions. Existing methods for open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation primarily focus on identifying object-level instances but struggle with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Ayca Takmaz , Alexandros Delitzas , Robert W. Sumner , Francis Engelmann , Johanna Wald , Federico Tombari

Recent advances in 4D content generation have attracted increasing attention, yet creating high-quality animated 3D models remains challenging due to the complexity of modeling spatio-temporal distributions and the scarcity of 4D training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Zijie Wu , Chaohui Yu , Fan Wang , Xiang Bai

3D scene graphs have empowered robots with semantic understanding for navigation and planning. However, current functional scene graphs primarily focus on static element detection, lacking the actionable kinematic information required for…

We present Artiverse, a diverse and physically grounded dataset of high-quality articulated 3D objects designed for realistic functional modeling and simulation. Artiverse contains 5.4K human-authored objects across a broad range of 88…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Denys Iliash , Jiayi Liu , Egor Fokin , Qirui Wu , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Manolis Savva , Angel X. Chang

Inspired by cognitive theories, we introduce AnyHome, a framework that translates any text into well-structured and textured indoor scenes at a house-scale. By prompting Large Language Models (LLMs) with designed templates, our approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Rao Fu , Zehao Wen , Zichen Liu , Srinath Sridhar

We tackle the problem of monocular 3D reconstruction of articulated objects like humans and animals. We contribute DensePose 3D, a method that can learn such reconstructions in a weakly supervised fashion from 2D image annotations only.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-02 Roman Shapovalov , David Novotny , Benjamin Graham , Patrick Labatut , Andrea Vedaldi

We introduce the task of open-vocabulary 3D instance segmentation. Current approaches for 3D instance segmentation can typically only recognize object categories from a pre-defined closed set of classes that are annotated in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Ayça Takmaz , Elisabetta Fedele , Robert W. Sumner , Marc Pollefeys , Federico Tombari , Francis Engelmann

Robots operating in domestic environments generally need to interact with articulated objects, such as doors, cabinets, dishwashers or fridges. In this work, we present a novel, probabilistic framework for modeling articulated objects as…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-06-02 Jürgen Sturm , Cyrill Stachniss , Wolfram Burgard

Recent advances in 4D content generation have attracted increasing attention, yet creating high-quality animated 3D models remains challenging due to the complexity of modeling spatio-temporal distributions and the scarcity of 4D training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Zijie Wu , Chaohui Yu , Fan Wang , Xiang Bai

Recent advances in modeling 3D objects mostly rely on synthetic datasets due to the lack of large-scale realscanned 3D databases. To facilitate the development of 3D perception, reconstruction, and generation in the real world, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Tong Wu , Jiarui Zhang , Xiao Fu , Yuxin Wang , Jiawei Ren , Liang Pan , Wayne Wu , Lei Yang , Jiaqi Wang , Chen Qian , Dahua Lin , Ziwei Liu

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