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3D modeling of articulated objects is a research problem within computer vision, graphics, and robotics. Its objective is to understand the shape and motion of the articulated components, represent the geometry and mobility of object parts,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-21 Jiayi Liu , Manolis Savva , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri

3D Reconstruction of moving articulated objects without additional information about object structure is a challenging problem. Current methods overcome such challenges by employing category-specific skeletal models. Consequently, they do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Hao Zhang , Fang Li , Samyak Rawlekar , Narendra Ahuja

Building high-fidelity digital twins of articulated objects from visual data remains a central challenge. Existing approaches depend on multi-view captures of the object in discrete, static states, which severely constrains their real-world…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Lijun Guo , Haoyu Zhao , Xingyue Zhao , Rong Fu , Linghao Zhuang , Siteng Huang , Zhongyu Li , Hua Zou

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

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

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

Articulated objects like cabinets and doors are widespread in daily life. However, directly manipulating 3D articulated objects is challenging because they have diverse geometrical shapes, semantic categories, and kinetic constraints. Prior…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Qiaojun Yu , Junbo Wang , Wenhai Liu , Ce Hao , Liu Liu , Lin Shao , Weiming Wang , Cewu Lu

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

Manipulating articulated objects with robotic arms is challenging due to the complex kinematic structure, which requires precise part segmentation for efficient manipulation. In this work, we introduce a novel superpoint-based perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Qiaojun Yu , Ce Hao , Xibin Yuan , Li Zhang , Liu Liu , Yukang Huo , Rohit Agarwal , Cewu Lu

Sparse-view 3D reconstruction is increasingly addressed with feed-forward splatting networks that predict explicit primitives directly from images. Yet most existing methods remain centered on Gaussian primitives and expose surfaces only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Weijie Wang , Zimu Li , Jinchuan Shi , Zeyu Zhang , Botao Ye , Marc Pollefeys , Donny Y. Chen , Bohan Zhuang

Robots deployed in human-centric environments may need to manipulate a diverse range of articulated objects, such as doors, dishwashers, and cabinets. Articulated objects often come with unexpected articulation mechanisms that are…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-01-19 Nick Heppert , Toki Migimatsu , Brent Yi , Claire Chen , Jeannette Bohg

Articulated objects are pervasive in daily life. However, due to the intrinsic high-DoF structure, the joint states of the articulated objects are hard to be estimated. To model articulated objects, two kinds of shape deformations namely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Han Xue , Liu Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Haoyuan Fu , Cewu Lu

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

This paper focuses on the challenging problem of 3D pose estimation of a diverse spectrum of articulated objects from single depth images. A novel structured prediction approach is considered, where 3D poses are represented as skeletal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-05 Yu Zhang , Chi Xu , Li Cheng

Articulated object generation has seen increasing advancements, yet existing models often lack the ability to be conditioned on text prompts. To address the significant gap between textual descriptions and 3D articulated object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Hao Sun , Lei Fan , Donglin Di , Shaohui Liu

Generating articulated objects, such as laptops and microwaves, is a crucial yet challenging task with extensive applications in Embodied AI and AR/VR. Current image-to-3D methods primarily focus on surface geometry and texture, neglecting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Ruijie Lu , Yu Liu , Jiaxiang Tang , Junfeng Ni , Yuxiang Wang , Diwen Wan , Gang Zeng , Yixin Chen , Siyuan Huang

Creating interactive digital environments for gaming, robotics, and simulation relies on articulated 3D objects whose functionality emerges from their part geometry and kinematic structure. However, existing approaches remain fundamentally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Penghao Wang , Siyuan Xie , Hongyu Yan , Xianghui Yang , Jingwei Huang , Chunchao Guo , Jiayuan Gu

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

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

We propose a training-free method, Articulate3D, to pose a 3D asset through language control. Despite advances in vision and language models, this task remains surprisingly challenging. To achieve this goal, we decompose the problem into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Oishi Deb , Anjun Hu , Ashkan Khakzar , Philip Torr , Christian Rupprecht