arXiv:2607. 04930v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In the pursuit of robust and generalizable category-level object pose estimation, most existing methods adopt parametric formulations that learn effective representations from data, yet they primarily encode category-level patterns into fixed shape priors or static parameter weights, which limits their scalability to highly diverse instances.
By Xiao Lin, Minghao Zhu, Yun Peng, Liuyi Wang, Qiyi Wang, Chengju Liu, Qijun Chen
In the pursuit of robust and generalizable category-level object pose estimation, most existing methods adopt parametric formulations that learn effective representations from data, yet they primarily encode category-level patterns into fixed shape priors or static parameter weights, which limits their scalability to highly diverse instances. In this paper, we rethink category-level pose estimation from a memory-centric perspective and present MemPose, a memory-augmented framework that explicitly incorporates category-level geometric memory into the pose estimation pipeline.
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
Artic-O is an end‑to‑end, feed‑forward framework that reconstructs articulated objects from sparse images by learning latent geometry. It maps multi‑state observations into a pretrained latent geometry space, uses a frozen flow‑matching decoder for complete‑shape priors, and fuses visual tokens with geometry latents in an image‑grounded part‑reasoning module to segment active parts and predict articulation. Trained with a geometry‑to‑articulation curriculum and a decoupled two‑pass strategy, Artic‑O achieves high reconstruction quality and articulation accuracy while drastically reducing inference time from 9 minutes to about 0.3 seconds per object.
By Xuyang Wang, Zhenyu Li, Jian Ding, Habib Slim, Peter Wonka, Hongdong Li, Mohamed Elhoseiny
TokenMatch is a transformer-based model that estimates 3D shape correspondences by adaptively tokenising meshes into curvature-guided patches. Trained only on the BeCoS partial-to-partial dataset, it generalises to full-shape matching without retraining, using self‑ and cross‑attention to learn patch‑ and point‑level relations. Evaluated on CP2P, PSMAL, BeCoS, FAUST, SCAPE, and SHREC'19, TokenMatch consistently outperforms existing methods in mean geodesic error and intersection‑over‑union while achieving sub‑second inference speeds.
By Adeela Islam, Zorah L\"ahner, Vittorio Murino, Vladislav Golyanik
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