arXiv AI
Jun 2

ShelfAware: Real-Time Semantic Localization in Quasi-Static Environments with Low-Cost Sensors

arXiv:2512. 09065v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Many indoor workspaces are quasi-static: their global geometric layout is stable, but local semantics change continually, producing repetitive geometry, dynamic clutter, and perceptual noise that defeat standard vision-based localization.

By Shivendra Agrawal, Jake Brawer, Ashutosh Naik, Alessandro Roncone, Bradley Hayes
arXiv AI
Sep 4

AnyBox: Efficient Zero-Shot 9DoF Pose Estimation of Boxes for Robotic Manipulation

AnyBox is a zero‑shot framework that estimates the full 9DoF pose (6D pose plus 3D dimensions) of boxes from a single RGB‑D image, leveraging the geometric regularity of boxes. It alternates between pose and scale estimation, using a binary search guided by the discrepancy between a reprojected template and the observed mask, and employs a depth‑consistency filter and an early‑stopping rule to prune implausible hypotheses. On public benchmarks and a warehouse dataset, AnyBox improves detection AP by up to 36 points and boosts robotic box‑shelving success by 28%.

By Yintao Ma, Sajjad Pakdamansavoji, Charles Eret, Rui Heng Yang, Xuan Zhao, Yingxue Zhang, Tongtong Cao, Amir Rasouli
arXiv Computer Vision
4d ago

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