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We present a fast, scalable, and accurate Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) system that represents indoor scenes as a graph of objects. Leveraging the observation that artificial environments are structured and occupied by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-06 Akash Sharma , Wei Dong , Michael Kaess

We introduce RoboPose, a method to estimate the joint angles and the 6D camera-to-robot pose of a known articulated robot from a single RGB image. This is an important problem to grant mobile and itinerant autonomous systems the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Yann Labbé , Justin Carpentier , Mathieu Aubry , Josef Sivic

Humans have the remarkable ability to use held objects as tools to interact with their environment. For this to occur, humans internally estimate how hand movements affect the object's movement. We wish to endow robots with this capability.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Weiming Zhi , Haozhan Tang , Tianyi Zhang , Matthew Johnson-Roberson

3-D pose estimation of instruments is a crucial step towards automatic scene understanding in robotic minimally invasive surgery. Although robotic systems can potentially directly provide joint values, this information is not commonly…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Luca Sestini , Benoit Rosa , Elena De Momi , Giancarlo Ferrigno , Nicolas Padoy

In traditional graph retrieval tools, graph matching is commonly used to retrieve desired graphs from extensive graph datasets according to their structural similarities. However, in real applications, graph nodes have numerous attributes…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Yuhua Liu , Haoxuan Wang , Jiajia Kou , Ling Sun , Heyu Wang , Yongheng Wang , Yigang Wang , Jinchang Lic , Zhiguang Zhou

Data processing has to deal with many practical difficulties. Data is often corrupted by artifacts or noise and acquiring data can be expensive and difficult. Thus, the given data is often incomplete and inaccurate. To overcome these…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-11-18 Florian Bossmann , Jianwei Ma

We discuss kinetic-based particle optimization methods and variable-sample strategies for problems where the cost function represents the expected value of a random mapping. Kinetic-based optimization methods rely on a consensus mechanism…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-07-08 Sabrina Bonandin , Michael Herty

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

Effectively manipulating articulated objects in household scenarios is a crucial step toward achieving general embodied artificial intelligence. Mainstream research in 3D vision has primarily focused on manipulation through depth perception…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Wenbo Cui , Chengyang Zhao , Songlin Wei , Jiazhao Zhang , Haoran Geng , Yaran Chen , Haoran Li , He Wang

We present ArtiGrasp, a novel method to synthesize bi-manual hand-object interactions that include grasping and articulation. This task is challenging due to the diversity of the global wrist motions and the precise finger control that are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Hui Zhang , Sammy Christen , Zicong Fan , Luocheng Zheng , Jemin Hwangbo , Jie Song , Otmar Hilliges

This paper considers the task of locating articulated poses of multiple robots in images. Our approach simultaneously infers the number of robots in a scene, identifies joint locations and estimates sparse depth maps around joint locations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-14 Christoph Heindl , Sebastian Zambal , Thomas Ponitz , Andreas Pichler , Josef Scharinger

This work make the first attempt to generate articulated human motion sequence from a single image. On the one hand, we utilize paired inputs including human skeleton information as motion embedding and a single human image as appearance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Yichao Yan , Jingwei Xu , Bingbing Ni , Xiaokang Yang

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

Pose graph optimization is a special case of the simultaneous localization and mapping problem where the only variables to be estimated are pose variables and the only measurements are inter-pose constraints. The vast majority of pose graph…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Brendon Forsgren , Kevin Brink , Prashant Ganesh , Timothy McLain

Articulated objects, as prevalent entities in human life, their 3D representations play crucial roles across various applications. However, achieving both high-fidelity textured surface reconstruction and dynamic generation for articulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Di Wu , Liu Liu , Zhou Linli , Anran Huang , Liangtu Song , Qiaojun Yu , Qi Wu , Cewu Lu

Directly learning multiple 3D objects motion from sequential images is difficult, while the geometric bundle adjustment lacks the ability to localize the invisible object centroid. To benefit from both the powerful object understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Peiliang Li , Jieqi Shi , Shaojie Shen

Perceiving and interacting with 3D articulated objects, such as cabinets, doors, and faucets, pose particular challenges for future home-assistant robots performing daily tasks in human environments. Besides parsing the articulated parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-05 Yian Wang , Ruihai Wu , Kaichun Mo , Jiaqi Ke , Qingnan Fan , Leonidas Guibas , Hao Dong

This paper proposes a real-time dynamic scene reconstruction method capable of reproducing the motion, geometry, and segmentation simultaneously given live depth stream from a single RGB-D camera. Our approach fuses geometry frame by frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-20 Chao Li , Zheheng Zhao , Xiaohu Guo

In this paper, we present an active exploration framework for high-fidelity 3D reconstruction that incrementally builds a multi-level uncertainty space and selects next-best-views through an uncertainty-driven motion planner. We introduce a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yan Li , Yingzhao Li , Gim Hee Lee

We propose a novel and flexible roof modeling approach that can be used for constructing planar 3D polygon roof meshes. Our method uses a graph structure to encode roof topology and enforces the roof validity by optimizing a simple but…

Graphics · Computer Science 2021-09-17 Jing Ren , Biao Zhang , Bojian Wu , Jianqiang Huang , Lubin Fan , Maks Ovsjanikov , Peter Wonka