Point2Pose is a model‑free method for causal 6D pose tracking of multiple rigid objects using monocular RGB‑D video. It starts from sparse image points and employs a 2D point tracker to maintain long‑range correspondences, allowing instant recovery after complete occlusion. The system also incrementally builds an online Truncated Signed Distance Function (TSDF) representation of the tracked objects and introduces a new multi‑object tracking dataset with motion‑capture ground truth.
By Tzu-Yuan Lin, Ho Jae Lee, Kevin Doherty, Yonghyeon Lee, Sangbae Kim
arXiv:2609.24482v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Monocular 3D human pose estimation (HPE) remains challenging due to depth ambiguity, occlu- sions, and the need for temporal consistency. While multi-v...
By Mena Kamel, Natalie Won, Amrut Sarangi, Sven Jager, Albert Pla Planas
Autonomous navigation of quadrupedal robots in diverse environments fundamentally relies on resilient Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM). While visual-inertial SLAM has matured across wheeled, handheld, and aerial platforms, a critical evaluation gap remains regarding how hardware-level sensor configurations affect performance under the aggressive dynamics of legged locomotion.
The paper introduces PICO, an end-to-end trainable model for 6DoF surgical tool pose estimation that uses multi-task learning to predict segmentation, depth, and pose parameters. It incorporates two geometry-aware proxy tasks—a projection loss and a point-to-point loss—to enforce consistency in 2D and 3D spaces, improving accuracy and robustness. Evaluated on the SurgRIPE dataset, PICO achieves strong performance, ranking second in rotation accuracy and maintaining competitive translation results, especially under occlusion.
By Lucy Fothergill, Pietro Valdastri, Dominic Jones, Duygu Sarikaya
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
RoPE-Flow is an end‑to‑end framework that estimates camera‑to‑robot pose from a single monocular image using flow matching. It extracts keypoint‑centered features from predicted 2D heatmaps and employs a graph‑guided condition generator to encode keypoint correlations for flow matching. The method introduces Bone Length Loss and Ray‑Depth Loss to enforce topological consistency and scale stability, and demonstrates superior performance over state‑of‑the‑art approaches on multiple robot types and a new cross‑scene benchmark.
By Liangjing Shao, Wanhao Liu, Zhiwei Fang, Rulin Zhou, Quanlu Zhang, Changjing Liu, Beilei Cui, Yiming Huang, Hongliang Ren