MonoDiff9D: Monocular Category-Level 9D Object Pose Estimation via Diffusion Model

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Main Authors: Liu, Jian, Sun, Wei, Yang, Hui, Zheng, Jin, Geng, Zichen, Rahmani, Hossein, Mian, Ajmal
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author Liu, Jian
Sun, Wei
Yang, Hui
Zheng, Jin
Geng, Zichen
Rahmani, Hossein
Mian, Ajmal
author_facet Liu, Jian
Sun, Wei
Yang, Hui
Zheng, Jin
Geng, Zichen
Rahmani, Hossein
Mian, Ajmal
contents Object pose estimation is a core means for robots to understand and interact with their environment. For this task, monocular category-level methods are attractive as they require only a single RGB camera. However, current methods rely on shape priors or CAD models of the intra-class known objects. We propose a diffusion-based monocular category-level 9D object pose generation method, MonoDiff9D. Our motivation is to leverage the probabilistic nature of diffusion models to alleviate the need for shape priors, CAD models, or depth sensors for intra-class unknown object pose estimation. We first estimate coarse depth via DINOv2 from the monocular image in a zero-shot manner and convert it into a point cloud. We then fuse the global features of the point cloud with the input image and use the fused features along with the encoded time step to condition MonoDiff9D. Finally, we design a transformer-based denoiser to recover the object pose from Gaussian noise. Extensive experiments on two popular benchmark datasets show that MonoDiff9D achieves state-of-the-art monocular category-level 9D object pose estimation accuracy without the need for shape priors or CAD models at any stage. Our code will be made public at https://github.com/CNJianLiu/MonoDiff9D.
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spellingShingle MonoDiff9D: Monocular Category-Level 9D Object Pose Estimation via Diffusion Model
Liu, Jian
Sun, Wei
Yang, Hui
Zheng, Jin
Geng, Zichen
Rahmani, Hossein
Mian, Ajmal
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
Object pose estimation is a core means for robots to understand and interact with their environment. For this task, monocular category-level methods are attractive as they require only a single RGB camera. However, current methods rely on shape priors or CAD models of the intra-class known objects. We propose a diffusion-based monocular category-level 9D object pose generation method, MonoDiff9D. Our motivation is to leverage the probabilistic nature of diffusion models to alleviate the need for shape priors, CAD models, or depth sensors for intra-class unknown object pose estimation. We first estimate coarse depth via DINOv2 from the monocular image in a zero-shot manner and convert it into a point cloud. We then fuse the global features of the point cloud with the input image and use the fused features along with the encoded time step to condition MonoDiff9D. Finally, we design a transformer-based denoiser to recover the object pose from Gaussian noise. Extensive experiments on two popular benchmark datasets show that MonoDiff9D achieves state-of-the-art monocular category-level 9D object pose estimation accuracy without the need for shape priors or CAD models at any stage. Our code will be made public at https://github.com/CNJianLiu/MonoDiff9D.
title MonoDiff9D: Monocular Category-Level 9D Object Pose Estimation via Diffusion Model
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Robotics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.10433