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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

Reconstructing articulated objects into high-fidelity digital twins is crucial for applications such as robotic manipulation and interactive simulation. Recent self-supervised methods using differentiable rendering frameworks like 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xuelu Li , Zhaonan Wang , Xiaogang Wang , Lei Wu , Manyi Li , Changhe Tu

3D models of manufactured objects are important for populating virtual worlds and for synthetic data generation for vision and robotics. To be most useful, such objects should be articulated: their parts should move when interacted with.…

Graphics · Computer Science 2022-06-20 Xianghao Xu , Yifan Ruan , Srinath Sridhar , Daniel Ritchie

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

The acquisition of substantial volumes of 3D articulated object data is expensive and time-consuming, and consequently the scarcity of 3D articulated object data becomes an obstacle for deep learning methods to achieve remarkable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-20 Jianhua Sun , Yuxuan Li , Jiude Wei , Longfei Xu , Nange Wang , Yining Zhang , Cewu Lu

Interactive 3D scenes are increasingly vital for embodied intelligence, yet existing datasets remain limited due to the labor-intensive process of annotating part segmentation, kinematic types, and motion trajectories. We present REACT3D, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Zhao Huang , Boyang Sun , Alexandros Delitzas , Jiaqi Chen , Marc Pollefeys

Category-level articulated object pose estimation focuses on the pose estimation of unknown articulated objects within known categories. Despite its significance, this task remains challenging due to the varying shapes and poses of objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yuchen Che , Ryo Furukawa , Asako Kanezaki

Methods tackling multi-object tracking need to estimate the number of targets in the sensing area as well as to estimate their continuous state. While the majority of existing methods focus on data association, precise state (3D pose)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Johannes Groß , Aljosa Osep , Bastian Leibe

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

We propose a method that efficiently learns distributions over articulation model parameters directly from depth images without the need to know articulation model categories a priori. By contrast, existing methods that learn articulation…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Ajinkya Jain , Stephen Giguere , Rudolf Lioutikov , Scott Niekum

We address the challenge of creating 3D assets for household articulated objects from a single image. Prior work on articulated object creation either requires multi-view multi-state input, or only allows coarse control over the generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jiayi Liu , Denys Iliash , Angel X. Chang , Manolis Savva , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

Articulated objects are prevalent in daily life. Interactable digital twins of such objects have numerous applications in embodied AI and robotics. Unfortunately, current methods to digitize articulated real-world objects require carefully…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Weikun Peng , Jun Lv , Cewu Lu , Manolis Savva

Understanding articulated objects from monocular video is a crucial yet challenging task in robotics and digital twin creation. Existing methods often rely on complex multi-view setups, high-fidelity object scans, or fragile long-term point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Arslan Artykov , Tom Ravaud , Corentin Sautier , Vincent Lepetit

In order for robots to operate effectively in homes and workplaces, they must be able to manipulate the articulated objects common within environments built for and by humans. Previous work learns kinematic models that prescribe this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-04 Zhengyang Wu , Mohit Bansal , Matthew R. Walter

Tracking non-rigidly deforming scenes using range sensors has numerous applications including computer vision, AR/VR, and robotics. However, due to occlusions and physical limitations of range sensors, existing methods only handle the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Yang Li , Hikari Takehara , Takafumi Taketomi , Bo Zheng , Matthias Nießner

Humans intuitively understand that inanimate objects do not move by themselves, but that state changes are typically caused by human manipulation (e.g., the opening of a book). This is not yet the case for machines. In part this is because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Zicong Fan , Omid Taheri , Dimitrios Tzionas , Muhammed Kocabas , Manuel Kaufmann , Michael J. Black , Otmar Hilliges

Category-level articulated object pose estimation aims to estimate a hierarchy of articulation-aware object poses of an unseen articulated object from a known category. To reduce the heavy annotations needed for supervised learning methods,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Xueyi Liu , Ji Zhang , Ruizhen Hu , Haibin Huang , He Wang , Li Yi

With the explosive growth of 3D content creation, there is an increasing demand for automatically converting static 3D models into articulation-ready versions that support realistic animation. Traditional approaches rely heavily on manual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Chaoyue Song , Jianfeng Zhang , Xiu Li , Fan Yang , Yiwen Chen , Zhongcong Xu , Jun Hao Liew , Xiaoyang Guo , Fayao Liu , Jiashi Feng , Guosheng Lin

We address the problem of unsupervised learning of complex articulated object models from 3D range data. We describe an algorithm whose input is a set of meshes corresponding to different configurations of an articulated object. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Dragomir Anguelov , Daphne Koller , Hoi-Cheung Pang , Praveen Srinivasan , Sebastian Thrun

Articulation modeling aims to infer movable parts and their motion parameters for a 3D object, enabling interactive animation, simulation, and shape editing. In this paper, we present Sketch2Arti, the first sketch-based articulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Yi Yang , Hao Pan , Yijing Cui , Alla Sheffer , Changjian Li