arXiv Computer Vision

WAPR: A Foundation Model for Wide-Angle Refinement in Unseen Object Pose Estimation

WAPR is a zero‑shot wide‑angle pose refinement model that can correct candidate 6D poses with rotational errors up to 90°, achieving fast inference (≤1 s per frame) and high throughput (≈25 detections per second). It leverages rotational symmetry priors to canonicalize pose targets and introduces the SA6D dataset, which augments 944 GSO scans into ~50 k object instances and ~2 M RGB‑D images. Experiments on seven BOP core datasets demonstrate that WAPR sets new state‑of‑the‑art performance for unseen‑object pose estimation in both fast and unconstrained settings.

arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

RYOPO: Bringing End-to-End Category-Level Object Pose Estimation into Real Time

RYOPO is an end‑to‑end query‑based RGB‑D set predictor that jointly detects, segments, and estimates 9‑DoF poses of unseen instances within known categories without relying on external instance segmentation or CAD priors. It uses shared image and scene encoding, a query‑conditioned geometry pathway, and object‑centric refinement with pose‑conditioned cross‑attention to achieve accurate pose estimation. On benchmark datasets such as NOCS, REAL275, and HouseCat6D, RYOPO outperforms published methods and runs in real time at 31.8 FPS on an RTX A6000.

By Hakjin Lee, Junghoon Seo, Jaehoon Sim
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 28

A Geometry-Driven, Framework-Agnostic Optimization for Object Pose Estimation

The paper proposes a data‑centric optimization for object pose estimation that uses a physically grounded rotation representation based on principal axes alignment. By aligning an object's coordinate system with its inertial principal axes, the method achieves inherent stability, symmetry‑aware canonicalization, and framework agnosticism, allowing it to be applied at the dataset level without modifying existing networks. Experiments on category‑level and instance‑level models show consistent accuracy improvements while preserving baseline network integrity.

By Wei Chen, Tao Zhen, Zhongchen Shi, Jing Zhang, Liang Xie, Erwei Yin
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

MoCapAnything V2: End-to-End Motion Capture for Arbitrary Skeletons

arXiv:2604.28130v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent methods for arbitrary-skeleton motion capture from monocular video follow a factorized pipeline, where a Video-to-Pose network predicts join...

By Kehong Gong, Zhengyu Wen, Dao Thien Phong, Mingxi Xu, Weixia He, Qi Wang, Ning Zhang, Zhengyu Li, Guanli Hou, Dongze Lian, Xiaoyu He, Mingyuan Zhang, Hanwang Zhang
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

G6D: Geometric Learning-Free RGB-D 6D Pose Solver for Robotic Manipulation

G6D is a learning‑free, geometry‑driven RGB‑D 6D pose solver designed for robotic manipulation. It generates pose hypotheses via template‑based geometric matching and refines them using silhouette and depth consistency, requiring only an RGB‑D observation, an object mask, camera intrinsics, and a CAD model. The method offers adjustable accuracy‑computation trade‑offs, can run on CPU without GPUs, and has shown strong performance on LineMOD and BOP19 datasets, as well as in real‑world pick‑and‑place experiments.

By Yixuan Liang (Tsinghua University), William Chen (Sapient Intelligence), Yunan Wang (Tsinghua University), Jizhou Yan (Tsinghua University), Zhao Jin (Tsinghua University), Changling Liu (Sapient Intelligence), Chuxiong Hu (Tsinghua University)
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 31

SUFLECA: Scaling Up Feature Learning for CAD-to-image Alignment

SUFLECA is a weakly supervised framework that improves zero‑shot CAD‑to‑image alignment by scaling geometry‑grounded feature learning using Normalized Object Coordinates across up to 12 real and synthetic datasets. It introduces a geometrically consistent matching algorithm that reliably establishes CAD‑to‑image correspondences, enabling accurate, sub‑second alignment without iterative pose refinement. On the ScanNet25k benchmark, SUFLECA achieves 32.8%/42.6% category/instance accuracy, outperforming the strongest zero‑shot baseline by 9.7/12.5 percentage points and surpassing existing pose‑supervised methods for the first time.

By Saad Ejaz, Miguel Fernandez-Cortizas, Javier Civera, Holger Voos, Jose Luis Sanchez-Lopez
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 2

GenCOPE: Syn2Real Generalized Category-Level Object Pose Estimation for Robotic Picking

GenCOPE introduces a synthetic-to-real (Syn2Real) approach for category-level object pose estimation (COPE) that eliminates the need for labor-intensive real-world data collection. By learning domain-invariant representations through 2D and 3D semantic consistency constraints and employing an end-to-end pose regression framework with 2D-3D cross consistency, the model achieves robust generalization across synthetic and real domains. The architecture relies solely on global features, resulting in a lightweight and efficient design validated on REAL275, Wild6D, and real-world robotic manipulation scenes.

By Jian Liu, Wei Sun, Zhenqi Dai, Hui Yang, Jian Xiao, Nicu Sebe, Na Zhao
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

PriorPose: Reference-Guided Joint Deformation and Alignment for Category-Level Object Pose Estimation

PriorPose introduces a reference-guided correspondence framework for category-level object pose estimation that jointly performs canonicalization and alignment in a shared feature space. By embedding partial observations and a category prior as token sets in a seeded transformer, the network predicts per-point NOCS fields and a canonical deformation, while a deep pose head regresses the similarity transform. A two-part shape consistency objective couples correspondence, deformation, and pose, reducing reliance on memorized canonical orientations and avoiding error cascades, leading to state-of-the-art results on standard and larger-category benchmarks, especially under strict pose thresholds.

By Yihan Chen, Huan Ren, Wenfei Yang, Hang Du, Tianzhu Zhang, Feng Wu