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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

We present Neural Articulated Radiance Field (NARF), a novel deformable 3D representation for articulated objects learned from images. While recent advances in 3D implicit representation have made it possible to learn models of complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Atsuhiro Noguchi , Xiao Sun , Stephen Lin , Tatsuya Harada

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

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

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

The ability to estimate joint parameters is essential for various applications in robotics and computer vision. In this paper, we propose CAPT: category-level articulation estimation from a point cloud using Transformer. CAPT uses an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Lian Fu , Ryoichi Ishikawa , Yoshihiro Sato , Takeshi Oishi

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

We present a neural network approach to transfer the motion from a single image of an articulated object to a rest-state (i.e., unarticulated) 3D model. Our network learns to predict the object's pose, part segmentation, and corresponding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Jasmine Collins , Anqi Liang , Jitendra Malik , Hao Zhang , Frédéric Devernay

Articulated objects are commonly found in daily life. It is essential that robots can exhibit robust perception and manipulation skills for articulated objects in real-world robotic applications. However, existing methods for articulated…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Junbo Wang , Wenhai Liu , Qiaojun Yu , Yang You , Liu Liu , Weiming Wang , Cewu Lu

Perceiving and manipulating 3D articulated objects (e.g., cabinets, doors) in human environments is an important yet challenging task for future home-assistant robots. The space of 3D articulated objects is exceptionally rich in their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Ruihai Wu , Yan Zhao , Kaichun Mo , Zizheng Guo , Yian Wang , Tianhao Wu , Qingnan Fan , Xuelin Chen , Leonidas Guibas , Hao Dong

We present Farm3D, a method for learning category-specific 3D reconstructors for articulated objects, relying solely on "free" virtual supervision from a pre-trained 2D diffusion-based image generator. Recent approaches can learn a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Tomas Jakab , Ruining Li , Shangzhe Wu , Christian Rupprecht , Andrea Vedaldi

Human perceive the 3D world through 2D observations from limited viewpoints. While recent feed-forward generalizable 3D reconstruction models excel at recovering 3D structures from sparse images, their representations are often confined to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Mochu Xiang , Zhelun Shen , Xuesong Li , Jiahui Ren , Jing Zhang , Chen Zhao , Shanshan Liu , Haocheng Feng , Jingdong Wang , Yuchao Dai

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

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

Incomplete-view computed tomography (CT) can shorten the data acquisition time and allow scanning of large objects, including sparse-view and limited-angle scenarios, each with various settings, such as different view numbers or angular…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-13 Chenglong Ma , Zilong Li , Junjun He , Junping Zhang , Yi Zhang , Hongming Shan

We present ARCH++, an image-based method to reconstruct 3D avatars with arbitrary clothing styles. Our reconstructed avatars are animation-ready and highly realistic, in both the visible regions from input views and the unseen regions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Tong He , Yuanlu Xu , Shunsuke Saito , Stefano Soatto , Tony Tung

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

Reconstructing hand-held objects in 3D from monocular images remains a significant challenge in computer vision. Most existing approaches rely on implicit 3D representations, which produce overly smooth reconstructions and are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Zerui Chen , Rolandos Alexandros Potamias , Shizhe Chen , Cordelia Schmid

Traditional approaches for manipulation planning rely on an explicit geometric model of the environment to formulate a given task as an optimization problem. However, inferring an accurate model from raw sensor input is a hard problem in…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-15 Phillip Grote , Joaquim Ortiz-Haro , Marc Toussaint , Ozgur S. Oguz

We address the problem of unsupervised learning of complex articulated object models from 3D range data. We describe an algorithm whose input is a set of meshes corresponding to different configurations of an articulated object. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2012-07-19 Dragomir Anguelov , Daphne Koller , Hoi-Cheung Pang , Praveen Srinivasan , Sebastian Thrun