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Robots working in human environments must be able to perceive and act on challenging objects with articulations, such as a pile of tools. Articulated objects increase the dimensionality of the pose estimation problem, and partial…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-08-10 Jana Pavlasek , Stanley Lewis , Karthik Desingh , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

Human life is populated with articulated objects. A comprehensive understanding of articulated objects, namely appearance, structure, physics property, and semantics, will benefit many research communities. As current articulated object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-18 Liu Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Haoyuan Fu , Sucheng Qian , Yang Han , Cewu Lu

In this paper we present a high fidelity and articulated 3D human foot model. The model is parameterised by a disentangled latent code in terms of shape, texture and articulated pose. While high fidelity models are typically created with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Oliver Boyne , James Charles , Roberto Cipolla

We explore the problem of estimating the mass distribution of an articulated object by an interactive robotic agent. Our method predicts the mass distribution of an object by using the limited sensing and actuating capabilities of a robotic…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-11-20 K. Niranjan Kumar , Irfan Essa , Sehoon Ha , C. Karen Liu

We introduce Infinigen-Articulated, a toolkit for generating realistic, procedurally generated articulated assets for robotics simulation. We include procedural generators for 18 common articulated object categories along with high-level…

Creating high-quality articulated 3D models of animals is challenging either via manual creation or using 3D scanning tools. Therefore, techniques to reconstruct articulated 3D objects from 2D images are crucial and highly useful. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Chun-Han Yao , Wei-Chih Hung , Yuanzhen Li , Michael Rubinstein , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Varun Jampani

Although commercial and open-source software exist to reconstruct a static object from a sequence recorded with an RGB-D sensor, there is a lack of tools that build rigged models of articulated objects that deform realistically and can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-09-12 Dimitrios Tzionas , Juergen Gall

Posing 3D characters is a fundamental task in computer graphics. However, existing paradigms, ranging from traditional auto-rigging to recent pose-conditioned generative models, frequently struggle with inaccurate skinning weights, fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Zhiyang Guo , Ori Zhang , Jax Xiang , Alan Zhao , Zhenxun Yuan , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

Manipulating an articulated object requires perceiving itskinematic hierarchy: its parts, how each can move, and howthose motions are coupled. Previous work has explored per-ception for kinematics, but none infers a complete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Hameed Abdul-Rashid , Miles Freeman , Ben Abbatematteo , George Konidaris , Daniel Ritchie

We introduce DiffPhy, a differentiable physics-based model for articulated 3d human motion reconstruction from video. Applications of physics-based reasoning in human motion analysis have so far been limited, both by the complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Erik Gärtner , Mykhaylo Andriluka , Erwin Coumans , Cristian Sminchisescu

Articulated object manipulation is essential for various real-world robotic tasks, yet generalizing across diverse objects remains a major challenge. A key to generalization lies in understanding functional parts (e.g., door handles and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yue Chen , Muqing Jiang , Kaifeng Zheng , Jiaqi Liang , Chenrui Tie , Haoran Lu , Ruihai Wu , Hao Dong

We consider the problem of predicting the 3D shape, articulation, viewpoint, texture, and lighting of an articulated animal like a horse given a single test image as input. We present a new method, dubbed MagicPony, that learns this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Shangzhe Wu , Ruining Li , Tomas Jakab , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Reconstructing articulated objects prevalent in daily environments is crucial for applications in augmented/virtual reality and robotics. However, existing methods face scalability limitations (requiring 3D supervision or costly…

We present StrobeNet, a method for category-level 3D reconstruction of articulating objects from one or more unposed RGB images. Reconstructing general articulating object categories % has important applications, but is challenging since…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Ge Zhang , Or Litany , Srinath Sridhar , Leonidas Guibas

We propose a novel point cloud based 3D organ segmentation pipeline utilizing deep Q-learning. In order to preserve shape properties, the learning process is guided using a statistical shape model. The trained agent directly predicts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-18 Xia Zhong , Mario Amrehn , Nishant Ravikumar , Shuqing Chen , Norbert Strobel , Annette Birkhold , Markus Kowarschik , Rebecca Fahrig , Andreas Maier

We introduce an active 3D reconstruction method which integrates visual perception, robot-object interaction, and 3D scanning to recover both the exterior and interior, i.e., unexposed, geometries of a target 3D object. Unlike other works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Zihao Yan , Fubao Su , Mingyang Wang , Ruizhen Hu , Hao Zhang , Hui Huang

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

We present ArtMesh, a mesh-native method for reconstructing articulated objects explicitly as connected triangle meshes with per-part rigid motion from multi-view images in start and end states. Existing 3D Gaussian Splatting pipelines for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Sylvia Yuan , Dan Wang , Ravi Ramamoorthi , Xinrui Cui

Feed-forward 3D reconstruction offers substantial runtime advantages over per-scene optimization, which remains slow at inference and often fragile under sparse views. However, existing feed-forward methods still have potential for further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Tianyu Chen , Wei Xiang , Kang Han , Yu Lu , Di Wu , Gaowen Liu , Ramana Rao Kompella

Simulation is a central tool for scalable robot learning, but its effectiveness depends on the quality of object assets. While modern 3D datasets provide rich geometric and kinematic representations, they typically lack the physical…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Anh-Quan Pham