STATERA: Hidden Mass Estimation via Zero-Shot Sim-to-Real Kinematics using Frozen Temporal Tubelets
Read the original on arXiv AI →STATERA is a method that adapts a pretrained video backbone with mostly frozen weights and a lightweight temporal tubelet mixer to estimate the center-of-mass (CoM) of opaque, asymmetric rigid bodies from short monocular videos. It introduces the HiddenMass Benchmark, consisting of 50K simulated MuJoCo trajectories and a 63-sequence real-world test set with calibrated CoM ground truth. In simulation, STATERA reduces normalized CoM error from 41.7% to 25.2%, and in zero-shot sim-to-real transfer, its phase‑aware variant consistently predicts movement toward the true hidden offset, improving physics capture from 2.6% to 41.0%.
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