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We present ATOP (Articulate That Object Part), a novel few-shot method based on motion personalization to articulate a static 3D object with respect to a part and its motion as prescribed in a text prompt. Given the scarcity of available…

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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…

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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.…

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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

From dishwashers to cabinets, humans interact with articulated objects every day, and for a robot to assist in common manipulation tasks, it must learn a representation of articulation. Recent deep learning learning methods can provide…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-29 Russell Buchanan , Adrian Röfer , João Moura , Abhinav Valada , Sethu Vijayakumar

Articulated 3D objects are central to many applications in robotics, AR/VR, and animation. Recent approaches to modeling such objects either rely on optimization-based reconstruction pipelines that require dense-view supervision or on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Chuhao Chen , Isabella Liu , Xinyue Wei , Hao Su , Minghua Liu

We propose to investigate detecting and characterizing the 3D planar articulation of objects from ordinary videos. While seemingly easy for humans, this problem poses many challenges for computers. We propose to approach this problem by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Shengyi Qian , Linyi Jin , Chris Rockwell , Siyi Chen , David F. Fouhey

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…

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Next generation robots will need to understand intricate and articulated objects as they cooperate in human environments. To do so, these robots will need to move beyond their current abilities--- working with relatively simple objects in a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Abhishek Venkataraman , Brent Griffin , Jason J. Corso

The last several years have seen significant progress in using depth cameras for tracking articulated objects such as human bodies, hands, and robotic manipulators. Most approaches focus on tracking skeletal parameters of a fixed shape…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Aaron Walsman , Weilin Wan , Tanner Schmidt , Dieter Fox

Reconstructing articulated objects is essential for building digital twins of interactive environments. However, prior methods typically decouple geometry and motion by first reconstructing object shape in distinct states and then…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-13 Licheng Shen , Saining Zhang , Honghan Li , Peilin Yang , Zihao Huang , Zongzheng Zhang , Hao Zhao

Building articulated objects is a key challenge in computer vision. Existing methods often fail to effectively integrate information across different object states, limiting the accuracy of part-mesh reconstruction and part dynamics…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yu Liu , Baoxiong Jia , Ruijie Lu , Junfeng Ni , Song-Chun Zhu , Siyuan Huang

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…

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We address the task of simultaneous part-level reconstruction and motion parameter estimation for articulated objects. Given two sets of multi-view images of an object in two static articulation states, we decouple the movable part from the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jiayi Liu , Ali Mahdavi-Amiri , Manolis Savva

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…

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Many functional elements of human homes and workplaces consist of rigid components which are connected through one or more sliding or rotating linkages. Examples include doors and drawers of cabinets and appliances; laptops; and swivel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2015-02-06 Sudeep Pillai , Matthew R. Walter , Seth Teller

We propose novel motion representations for animating articulated objects consisting of distinct parts. In a completely unsupervised manner, our method identifies object parts, tracks them in a driving video, and infers their motions by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-26 Aliaksandr Siarohin , Oliver J. Woodford , Jian Ren , Menglei Chai , Sergey Tulyakov

We tackle the challenge of concurrent reconstruction at the part level with the RGB appearance and estimation of motion parameters for building digital twins of articulated objects using the 3D Gaussian Splatting (3D-GS) method. With two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Junfu Guo , Yu Xin , Gaoyi Liu , Kai Xu , Ligang Liu , Ruizhen Hu

This paper presents a novel framework for modeling and conditional generation of 3D articulated objects. Troubled by flexibility-quality tradeoffs, existing methods are often limited to using predefined structures or retrieving shapes from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-04 Jiayi Su , Youhe Feng , Zheng Li , Jinhua Song , Yangfan He , Botao Ren , Botian Xu

Articulated objects are an important type of interactable objects in everyday environments. In this paper, we propose PhysNAP, a novel diffusion model-based approach for generating articulated objects that aligns them with partial point…

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