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Articulated objects exist widely in the real world. However, previous 3D generative methods for unsupervised part decomposition are unsuitable for such objects, because they assume a spatially fixed part location, resulting in inconsistent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Yuki Kawana , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

Recent breakthroughs in 3D generation have enabled the synthesis of high-fidelity individual assets. However, generating 3D compositional objects from single images--particularly under occlusions--remains challenging. Existing methods often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Hui Shan , Keyang Luo , Ming Li , Sizhe Zheng , Yanwei Fu , Zhen Chen , Xiangru Huang

People often use physical intuition when manipulating articulated objects, irrespective of object semantics. Motivated by this observation, we identify an important embodied task where an agent must play with objects to recover their parts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Samir Yitzhak Gadre , Kiana Ehsani , Shuran Song

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 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

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

We propose an end-to-end trainable, cross-category method for reconstructing multiple man-made articulated objects from a single RGBD image, focusing on part-level shape reconstruction and pose and kinematics estimation. We depart from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Yuki Kawana , Tatsuya Harada

Part segmentation and motion estimation are two fundamental problems for articulated object motion analysis. In this paper, we present a method to solve these two problems jointly from a sequence of observed point clouds of a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Jun-Jee Chao , Qingyuan Jiang , Volkan Isler

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Aditya Vora , Sauradip Nag , Kai Wang , Hao Zhang

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

Articulated 3D objects are critical for embodied AI, robotics, and interactive scene understanding, yet creating simulation-ready assets remains labor-intensive and requires expert modeling of part hierarchies and motion structures. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Yumeng He , Ying Jiang , Jiayin Lu , Yin Yang , Chenfanfu Jiang

When perceiving the world from multiple viewpoints, humans have the ability to reason about the complete objects in a compositional manner even when an object is completely occluded from certain viewpoints. Meanwhile, humans are able to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Chengmin Gao , Bin Li

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

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

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

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

Articulated objects, as prevalent entities in human life, their 3D representations play crucial roles across various applications. However, achieving both high-fidelity textured surface reconstruction and dynamic generation for articulated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Di Wu , Liu Liu , Zhou Linli , Anran Huang , Liangtu Song , Qiaojun Yu , Qi Wu , Cewu Lu

Text- or image-to-3D generators and 3D scanners can now produce 3D assets with high-quality shapes and textures. These assets typically consist of a single, fused representation, like an implicit neural field, a Gaussian mixture, or a mesh,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Minghao Chen , Roman Shapovalov , Iro Laina , Tom Monnier , Jianyuan Wang , David Novotny , Andrea Vedaldi

Understanding and manipulating articulated objects, such as doors and drawers, is crucial for robots operating in human environments. We wish to develop a system that can learn to articulate novel objects with no prior interaction, after…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-05-03 Harry Zhang , Ben Eisner , David Held

Reconstructing articulated 3D objects from a single image requires jointly inferring object geometry, part structure, and motion parameters from limited visual evidence. A key difficulty lies in the entanglement between motion cues and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Haitian Li , Haozhe Xie , Junxiang Xu , Beichen Wen , Fangzhou Hong , Ziwei Liu