arXiv:2610.09534v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Rotational symmetry is an important prior in 6D pose estimation, improving pose accuracy and supporting symmetry-aware evaluation. However, current sym...
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:2504.07335v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose DLTPose, a novel method for 6DoF object pose estimation from RGBD images that combines the accuracy of sparse keypoint methods with the...
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.
arXiv:2312. 08230v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Detecting partial extrinsic symmetry in 3D geometry is a fundamental yet persistent challenge in computer vision and graphics, critical for tasks ranging from shape completion to procedural generation.
arXiv:2601.13913v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We consider monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE), where the goal is to predict 3D human skeletal joints from a single 2D image, typically via 2...
The paper investigates how a vanilla Transformer learns symmetries from finite data augmentation on point cloud datasets. It finds an ordering of learnability: non-angle-preserving symmetries are easiest, followed by angle-preserving symmetries, and finally base angle-preserving subgroups such as translation, rotation, and scale. The study also examines the Transformer's extrapolation behavior, performs a structural analysis of trained models to uncover interpretable mechanisms for invariance, and extends these findings to equivariant functions, suggesting that the identified mechanisms can serve as building blocks for learned equivariance.
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.
arXiv:2511. 16624v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present SAM 3D, a generative model for visually grounded 3D object reconstruction, predicting geometry, texture, and layout from a single image.
arXiv:2607.09985v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Object pose estimation is a fundamental problem in 3D vision. Although recent state-of-the-art approaches achieve strong performance, generalizatio...
arXiv:2609.00713v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Estimation of the absolute pose of an object is an essential task for various robotic applications. Recently, incorporating gravity direction as prior...
arXiv:2606. 18429v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Accurately aligning CAD models to their corresponding objects in indoor RGB-D scans is a central challenge in 3D semantic reconstruction.