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Existing inverse physics methods recover physical parameters from multi-view videos, where geometric constraints across views resolve scale and 3D structure. In monocular settings, however, such constraints are absent, leading to severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Daniel Rho , Jun Myeong Choi , Matthew Thornton , Biswadip Dey , Roni Sengupta

Articulated 3D reconstruction has valuable applications in various domains, yet it remains costly and demands intensive work from domain experts. Recent advancements in template-free learning methods show promising results with monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-11 Tao Tu , Ming-Feng Li , Chieh Hubert Lin , Yen-Chi Cheng , Min Sun , Ming-Hsuan Yang

This paper addresses the problem of scale estimation in monocular SLAM by estimating absolute distances between camera centers of consecutive image frames. These estimates would improve the overall performance of classical (not deep) SLAM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Danila Rukhovich , Daniel Mouritzen , Ralf Kaestner , Martin Rufli , Alexander Velizhev

Articulated object manipulation requires precise object interaction, where the object's axis must be carefully considered. Previous research employed interactive perception for manipulating articulated objects, but typically, open-loop…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Xi Wang , Tianxing Chen , Qiaojun Yu , Tianling Xu , Zanxin Chen , Yiting Fu , Ziqi He , Cewu Lu , Yao Mu , Ping Luo

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 paper describes how to obtain accurate 3D body models and texture of arbitrary people from a single, monocular video in which a person is moving. Based on a parametric body model, we present a robust processing pipeline achieving 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-17 Thiemo Alldieck , Marcus Magnor , Weipeng Xu , Christian Theobalt , Gerard Pons-Moll

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

Our work aims to obtain 3D reconstruction of hands and manipulated objects from monocular videos. Reconstructing hand-object manipulations holds a great potential for robotics and learning from human demonstrations. The supervised learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Yana Hasson , Gül Varol , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

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

Recovering 4D human-object interaction (HOI) from monocular video is a key step toward scalable 3D content creation, embodied AI, and simulation-based learning. Recent methods can reconstruct temporally coherent human and object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Yubo Zhao , Yujin Chai , Yunao Dong , Chengfeng Zhao , Zijiao Zeng , Yuan Liu , Chi-Keung Tang

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

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

Reconstructing simulation-ready deformable objects is important for vision, graphics, and robotics. Existing physics-driven methods can recover physical digital twins from videos, but they suffer from two fundamental limitations: they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Yang Yang , Yiyan Wang , Zheming Liu , Naoya Iwamoto

Manipulating unseen articulated objects through visual feedback is a critical but challenging task for real robots. Existing learning-based solutions mainly focus on visual affordance learning or other pre-trained visual models to guide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Pengwei Xie , Rui Chen , Siang Chen , Yuzhe Qin , Fanbo Xiang , Tianyu Sun , Jing Xu , Guijin Wang , Hao Su

Articulated objects are ubiquitous and important in robotics, AR/VR, and digital twins. Most self-supervised methods for articulated object modeling reconstruct discrete interaction states and relate them via cross-state geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haowen Wang , Xiaoping Yuan , Zhao Jin , Zhen Zhao , Zhengping Che , Yousong Xue , Jin Tian , Yakun Huang , Jian Tang

Despite significant progress made in the past few years, challenges remain for depth estimation using a single monocular image. First, it is nontrivial to train a metric-depth prediction model that can generalize well to diverse scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Wei Yin , Jianming Zhang , Oliver Wang , Simon Niklaus , Simon Chen , Yifan Liu , Chunhua Shen

3D object detection with surrounding cameras has been a promising direction for autonomous driving. In this paper, we present SimMOD, a Simple baseline for Multi-camera Object Detection, to solve the problem. To incorporate multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Yunpeng Zhang , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Guan Huang , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

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

We present the first marker-less approach for temporally coherent 3D performance capture of a human with general clothing from monocular video. Our approach reconstructs articulated human skeleton motion as well as medium-scale non-rigid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Weipeng Xu , Avishek Chatterjee , Michael Zollhöfer , Helge Rhodin , Dushyant Mehta , Hans-Peter Seidel , Christian Theobalt

Simulating object dynamics from real-world perception shows great promise for digital twins and robotic manipulation but often demands labor-intensive measurements and expertise. We present a fully automated Real2Sim pipeline that generates…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-02 Nicholas Pfaff , Evelyn Fu , Jeremy Binagia , Phillip Isola , Russ Tedrake