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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…

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

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

Articulated 3D object generation is fundamental for creating realistic, functional, and interactable virtual assets which are not simply static. We introduce MeshArt, a hierarchical transformer-based approach to generate articulated 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Daoyi Gao , Yawar Siddiqui , Lei Li , Angela Dai

Human life is populated with articulated objects. Current Category-level Articulation Pose Estimation (CAPE) methods are studied under the single-instance setting with a fixed kinematic structure for each category. Considering these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-09 Liu Liu , Han Xue , Wenqiang Xu , Haoyuan Fu , Cewu Lu

Precise perception of articulated objects is vital for empowering service robots. Recent studies mainly focus on point cloud, a single-modal approach, often neglecting vital texture and lighting details and assuming ideal conditions like…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Hongliang Zeng , Ping Zhang , Chengjiong Wu , Jiahua Wang , Tingyu Ye , Fang Li

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

This paper presents ArticuBot, in which a single learned policy enables a robotics system to open diverse categories of unseen articulated objects in the real world. This task has long been challenging for robotics due to the large…

Articulated objects are pervasive in daily life. However, due to the intrinsic high-DoF structure, the joint states of the articulated objects are hard to be estimated. To model articulated objects, two kinds of shape deformations namely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 Han Xue , Liu Liu , Wenqiang Xu , Haoyuan Fu , Cewu Lu

Objects play a crucial role in our everyday activities. Though multisensory object-centric learning has shown great potential lately, the modeling of objects in prior work is rather unrealistic. ObjectFolder 1.0 is a recent dataset that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-06 Ruohan Gao , Zilin Si , Yen-Yu Chang , Samuel Clarke , Jeannette Bohg , Li Fei-Fei , Wenzhen Yuan , Jiajun Wu

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 present a dataset of 998 3D models of everyday tabletop objects along with their 847,000 real world RGB and depth images. Accurate annotations of camera poses and object poses for each image are performed in a semi-automated fashion to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Rakesh Shrestha , Siqi Hu , Minghao Gou , Ziyuan Liu , Ping Tan

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

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

Hand, the bearer of human productivity and intelligence, is receiving much attention due to the recent fever of digital twins. Among different hand morphable models, MANO has been widely used in vision and graphics community. However, MANO…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Daiheng Gao , Yuliang Xiu , Kailin Li , Lixin Yang , Feng Wang , Peng Zhang , Bang Zhang , Cewu Lu , Ping Tan

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

Driven by applications in autonomous driving robotics and augmented reality 3D object annotation presents challenges beyond 2D annotation including spatial complexity occlusion and viewpoint inconsistency Existing approaches based on single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Jusheng Zhang , Yijia Fan , Zimo Wen , Jian Wang , Keze Wang

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

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

Articulation modeling enables robots to learn joint parameters of articulated objects for effective manipulation which can then be used downstream for skill learning or planning. Existing approaches often rely on prior knowledge about the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Anmol Gupta , Weiwei Gu , Omkar Patil , Jun Ki Lee , Nakul Gopalan