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We introduce Particulate, a feed-forward model that, given a 3D mesh of an object, infers its articulations, including its 3D parts, their kinematic structure, and the motion constraints. The model is based on a transformer network, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ruining Li , Yuxin Yao , Chuanxia Zheng , Christian Rupprecht , Joan Lasenby , Shangzhe Wu , Andrea Vedaldi

Generalizable articulated object manipulation is essential for home-assistant robots. Recent efforts focus on imitation learning from demonstrations or reinforcement learning in simulation, however, due to the prohibitive costs of…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Wenke Xia , Dong Wang , Xincheng Pang , Zhigang Wang , Bin Zhao , Di Hu , Xuelong Li

The study of biological materials and bio-inspired materials science is well established; however, surprisingly little knowledge has been systematically translated to engineering solutions. To accelerate discovery and guide insights, an…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-12 Rachel K. Luu , Markus J. Buehler

Articulated objects (e.g., doors and drawers) exist everywhere in our life. Different from rigid objects, articulated objects have higher degrees of freedom and are rich in geometries, semantics, and part functions. Modeling different kinds…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Yushi Du , Ruihai Wu , Yan Shen , Hao Dong

Articulated objects like doors, drawers, valves, and tools are pervasive in our everyday unstructured dynamic environments. Articulation models describe the joint nature between the different parts of an articulated object. As most of these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Yeshasvi Tirupachuri , Silvio Traversaro , Francesco Nori , Daniele Pucci

Recent developments in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have significantly improved Vision-Language (VL) reasoning in 2D domains. However, extending these capabilities to 3D scene understanding remains a major challenge. Existing 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Haijier Chen , Bo Xu , Shoujian Zhang , Haoze Liu , Jiaxuan Lin , Jingrong Wang

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

Humans naturally understand 3D spatial relationships, enabling complex reasoning like predicting collisions of vehicles from different directions. Current large multimodal models (LMMs), however, lack of this capability of 3D spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Wufei Ma , Luoxin Ye , Celso M de Melo , Jieneng Chen , Alan Yuille

The increasing demand for augmented reality and robotics is driving the need for articulated object reconstruction with high scalability. However, existing settings for reconstructing from discrete articulation states or casual monocular…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Hang Dai , Hongwei Fan , Han Zhang , Duojin Wu , Jiyao Zhang , Hao Dong

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

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

We introduce ART, Articulated Reconstruction Transformer -- a category-agnostic, feed-forward model that reconstructs complete 3D articulated objects from only sparse, multi-state RGB images. Previous methods for articulated object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-18 Zizhang Li , Cheng Zhang , Zhengqin Li , Henry Howard-Jenkins , Zhaoyang Lv , Chen Geng , Jiajun Wu , Richard Newcombe , Jakob Engel , Zhao Dong

Large language models (LLMs) have facilitated the generation of high-quality, cost-effective synthetic data for developing downstream models and conducting statistical analyses in various domains. However, the increased reliance on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Yixin Wu , Ziqing Yang , Yun Shen , Michael Backes , Yang Zhang

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

Material discovery is a critical area of research with the potential to revolutionize various fields, including carbon capture, renewable energy, and electronics. However, the immense scale of the chemical space makes it challenging to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Anuroop Sriram , Benjamin Kurt Miller , Ricky T. Q. Chen , Brandon M. Wood

We introduce InteractVLM, a novel method to estimate 3D contact points on human bodies and objects from single in-the-wild images, enabling accurate human-object joint reconstruction in 3D. This is challenging due to occlusions, depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Sai Kumar Dwivedi , Dimitrije Antić , Shashank Tripathi , Omid Taheri , Cordelia Schmid , Michael J. Black , Dimitrios Tzionas

Transformer neural networks show promising capabilities, in particular for uses in materials analysis, design and manufacturing, including their capacity to work effectively with both human language, symbols, code, and numerical data. Here…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Markus J. Buehler

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

New era has unlocked exciting possibilities for extending Large Language Models (LLMs) to tackle 3D vision-language tasks. However, most existing 3D multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) rely on compressing holistic 3D scene information or segmenting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Xiaoyan Wang , Zeju Li , Yifan Xu , Jiaxing Qi , Zhifei Yang , Ruifei Ma , Xiangde Liu , Chao Zhang

Reconstructing articulated objects into high-fidelity digital twins is crucial for applications such as robotic manipulation and interactive simulation. Recent self-supervised methods using differentiable rendering frameworks like 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Xuelu Li , Zhaonan Wang , Xiaogang Wang , Lei Wu , Manyi Li , Changhe Tu