arXiv Computer Vision

VisTa3D: A Dataset and Benchmark for Thin Object Reconstruction from Vision, Tactile, and 3D Point Clouds

arXiv AI
3d ago

MessyKitchens: Contact-rich object-level 3D scene reconstruction

MessyKitchens introduces a new dataset of cluttered real-world kitchen scenes with detailed 3D object shapes, poses, and accurate contact information. The authors extend the SAM 3D single-object reconstruction method with a Multi-Object Decoder (MOD) to jointly reconstruct entire scenes, achieving better registration accuracy and reduced inter-object penetration compared to prior work. The dataset, benchmark, code, and pretrained models will be publicly released on the project website.

By Junaid Ahmed Ansari, Ran Ding, Fabio Pizzati, Ivan Laptev
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 17

CADSplat: Sparse-View 3D Gaussian Splatting Aided by CAD Models for Robust, Photorealistic Digital-Twin Reconstruction

CADSplat is a framework that reconstructs photorealistic, geometrically accurate digital twins from fewer than 15 wide‑baseline images by regularizing 3D Gaussian Splatting with an explicit CAD shape prior. It matches segmented object silhouettes to a CAD library to retrieve a suitable model and camera poses, then anchors Gaussian primitives to the model’s surface and jointly optimizes splat parameters, registration, and a non‑rigid deformation field. Experiments on two real‑world datasets show CADSplat outperforms baselines, especially in sparse and self‑occluded scenarios, and its gains mainly stem from constraining splats to a surface rather than the CAD shape itself.

By Kristof Overdulve, Lode Jorissen, Nick Michiels
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

ControlTac: Scaling Tactile Data with Physically Controlled Tactile Image Generation

ControlTac is a two‑stage framework that generates realistic tactile images conditioned on a single reference image, contact force, and contact pose. By incorporating these physical priors, it produces realistic samples across different sensors and captures task‑relevant variations. Experiments in object insertion, imitation learning, and object weighting show that datasets augmented with ControlTac consistently improve performance in dynamic real‑world settings.

By Dongyu Luo, Kelin Yu, Amir-Hossein Shahidzadeh, Cornelia Ferm\"uller, Yiannis Aloimonos, Ruohan Gao
arXiv AI
Jun 2

A Survey of 3D Reconstruction with Event Cameras

arXiv:2505. 08438v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Event cameras are rapidly emerging as powerful vision sensors for 3D reconstruction, uniquely capable of asynchronously capturing per-pixel brightness changes.

By Chuanzhi Xu, Haoxian Zhou, Langyi Chen, Haodong Chen, Zeke Zexi Hu, Zhicheng Lu, Ying Zhou, Vera Chung, Qiang Qu, Weidong Cai
arXiv AI
Sep 7

Mitigating Performance Discrepancy in Cross-Domain 3D Class-Incremental Learning

The paper addresses performance discrepancy in cross-domain 3D class‑incremental learning, where 3D point clouds from heterogeneous sources cause varying degrees of performance loss beyond catastrophic forgetting. The authors introduce the Domain3D‑CIL protocol and adapt existing CIL methods to 3D, showing consistent discrepancy across baselines. They propose PolyMem, an exemplar‑free approach that models high‑order feature statistics to improve cross‑domain robustness and reduce performance discrepancy.

By Jinge Ma, Gautham Vinod, Bruce Coburn, Jui-Feng Chi, Siddeshwar Raghavan, Fengqing Zhu