Articulat3D: Reconstructing Articulated Digital Twins From Monocular Videos with Geometric and Motion Constraints

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Main Authors: Guo, Lijun, Zhao, Haoyu, Zhao, Xingyue, Fu, Rong, Zhuang, Linghao, Huang, Siteng, Li, Zhongyu, Zou, Hua
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author Guo, Lijun
Zhao, Haoyu
Zhao, Xingyue
Fu, Rong
Zhuang, Linghao
Huang, Siteng
Li, Zhongyu
Zou, Hua
author_facet Guo, Lijun
Zhao, Haoyu
Zhao, Xingyue
Fu, Rong
Zhuang, Linghao
Huang, Siteng
Li, Zhongyu
Zou, Hua
contents Building high-fidelity digital twins of articulated objects from visual data remains a central challenge. Existing approaches depend on multi-view captures of the object in discrete, static states, which severely constrains their real-world scalability. In this paper, we introduce Articulat3D, a novel framework that constructs such digital twins from casually captured monocular videos by jointly enforcing explicit 3D geometric and motion constraints. We first propose Motion Prior-Driven Initialization, which leverages 3D point tracks to exploit the low-dimensional structure of articulated motion. By modeling scene dynamics with a compact set of motion bases, we facilitate soft decomposition of the scene into multiple rigidly-moving groups. Building on this initialization, we introduce Geometric and Motion Constraints Refinement, which enforces physically plausible articulation through learnable kinematic primitives parameterized by a joint axis, a pivot point, and per-frame motion scalars, yielding reconstructions that are both geometrically accurate and temporally coherent. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Articulat3D achieves state-of-the-art performance on synthetic benchmarks and real-world casually captured monocular videos, significantly advancing the feasibility of digital twin creation under uncontrolled real-world conditions. Our project page is at https://maxwell-zhao.github.io/Articulat3D.
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spellingShingle Articulat3D: Reconstructing Articulated Digital Twins From Monocular Videos with Geometric and Motion Constraints
Guo, Lijun
Zhao, Haoyu
Zhao, Xingyue
Fu, Rong
Zhuang, Linghao
Huang, Siteng
Li, Zhongyu
Zou, Hua
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Building high-fidelity digital twins of articulated objects from visual data remains a central challenge. Existing approaches depend on multi-view captures of the object in discrete, static states, which severely constrains their real-world scalability. In this paper, we introduce Articulat3D, a novel framework that constructs such digital twins from casually captured monocular videos by jointly enforcing explicit 3D geometric and motion constraints. We first propose Motion Prior-Driven Initialization, which leverages 3D point tracks to exploit the low-dimensional structure of articulated motion. By modeling scene dynamics with a compact set of motion bases, we facilitate soft decomposition of the scene into multiple rigidly-moving groups. Building on this initialization, we introduce Geometric and Motion Constraints Refinement, which enforces physically plausible articulation through learnable kinematic primitives parameterized by a joint axis, a pivot point, and per-frame motion scalars, yielding reconstructions that are both geometrically accurate and temporally coherent. Extensive experiments demonstrate that Articulat3D achieves state-of-the-art performance on synthetic benchmarks and real-world casually captured monocular videos, significantly advancing the feasibility of digital twin creation under uncontrolled real-world conditions. Our project page is at https://maxwell-zhao.github.io/Articulat3D.
title Articulat3D: Reconstructing Articulated Digital Twins From Monocular Videos with Geometric and Motion Constraints
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.11606