Differentiable Inverse Graphics for Zero-shot Scene Reconstruction and Robot Grasping

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Main Authors: Arriaga, Octavio, Sharma, Proneet, Guo, Jichen, Otto, Marc, Kadwe, Siddhant, Adam, Rebecca
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author Arriaga, Octavio
Sharma, Proneet
Guo, Jichen
Otto, Marc
Kadwe, Siddhant
Adam, Rebecca
author_facet Arriaga, Octavio
Sharma, Proneet
Guo, Jichen
Otto, Marc
Kadwe, Siddhant
Adam, Rebecca
contents Operating effectively in novel real-world environments requires robotic systems to estimate and interact with previously unseen objects. Current state-of-the-art models address this challenge by using large amounts of training data and test-time samples to build black-box scene representations. In this work, we introduce a differentiable neuro-graphics model that combines neural foundation models with physics-based differentiable rendering to perform zero-shot scene reconstruction and robot grasping without relying on any additional 3D data or test-time samples. Our model solves a series of constrained optimization problems to estimate physically consistent scene parameters, such as meshes, lighting conditions, material properties, and 6D poses of previously unseen objects from a single RGBD image and bounding boxes. We evaluated our approach on standard model-free few-shot benchmarks and demonstrated that it outperforms existing algorithms for model-free few-shot pose estimation. Furthermore, we validated the accuracy of our scene reconstructions by applying our algorithm to a zero-shot grasping task. By enabling zero-shot, physically-consistent scene reconstruction and grasping without reliance on extensive datasets or test-time sampling, our approach offers a pathway towards more data efficient, interpretable and generalizable robot autonomy in novel environments.
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spellingShingle Differentiable Inverse Graphics for Zero-shot Scene Reconstruction and Robot Grasping
Arriaga, Octavio
Sharma, Proneet
Guo, Jichen
Otto, Marc
Kadwe, Siddhant
Adam, Rebecca
Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
Operating effectively in novel real-world environments requires robotic systems to estimate and interact with previously unseen objects. Current state-of-the-art models address this challenge by using large amounts of training data and test-time samples to build black-box scene representations. In this work, we introduce a differentiable neuro-graphics model that combines neural foundation models with physics-based differentiable rendering to perform zero-shot scene reconstruction and robot grasping without relying on any additional 3D data or test-time samples. Our model solves a series of constrained optimization problems to estimate physically consistent scene parameters, such as meshes, lighting conditions, material properties, and 6D poses of previously unseen objects from a single RGBD image and bounding boxes. We evaluated our approach on standard model-free few-shot benchmarks and demonstrated that it outperforms existing algorithms for model-free few-shot pose estimation. Furthermore, we validated the accuracy of our scene reconstructions by applying our algorithm to a zero-shot grasping task. By enabling zero-shot, physically-consistent scene reconstruction and grasping without reliance on extensive datasets or test-time sampling, our approach offers a pathway towards more data efficient, interpretable and generalizable robot autonomy in novel environments.
title Differentiable Inverse Graphics for Zero-shot Scene Reconstruction and Robot Grasping
topic Robotics
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05029