Symmetry-Aware 9D Pose Estimation with Sim(3)-Consistent Feature and Spherical Inception Convolution

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Main Authors: Cheng, Panfei, Yu, Hongshan, Chen, Wenrui, Tang, Xiaojun, Liu, Jian, Akhtar, Naveed
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author Cheng, Panfei
Yu, Hongshan
Chen, Wenrui
Tang, Xiaojun
Liu, Jian
Akhtar, Naveed
author_facet Cheng, Panfei
Yu, Hongshan
Chen, Wenrui
Tang, Xiaojun
Liu, Jian
Akhtar, Naveed
contents Object pose estimation is a fundamental problem for an agent system to perceive or manipulate objects in images or videos. However, current instance-level methods struggle with generalization to unseen objects. Category-level methods seek to address this, but remain constrained by the complexities of learning in the non-linear Sim(3) space and intra-class variations. To address these challenges, We propose an effective method for category-level object pose estimation with two key innovations: (1) A translation/size estimator, featuring a semantic-guided symmetry-aware module that leverages robust generalization capabilities of a large vision model (LVM) to infer symmetry points, resulting in accurate translation and size without shape priors. This result serves as a precomputed cue for rotation estimation, thereby reducing the difficulty of learning in the non-linear Sim(3) space and laying a robust foundation for tackling the inherently more challenging rotation estimation. (2) A feature fusion module, based on our proposed spherical large-kernel inception convolution, fuses semantic features from the LVM with systematically computed geometric features to extract essential pose features from intra-class variations by modeling long-range dependencies without excessive computational cost. Built on these innovations, we achieve SOTA on benchmarks and real-world scenes, while developing a robust robotic picking system capable of handling diverse objects. Our code will be available at the project page: {\hypersetup{urlcolor=blue}https://panfei-cheng.github.io/SSH-Pose}.
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spellingShingle Symmetry-Aware 9D Pose Estimation with Sim(3)-Consistent Feature and Spherical Inception Convolution
Cheng, Panfei
Yu, Hongshan
Chen, Wenrui
Tang, Xiaojun
Liu, Jian
Akhtar, Naveed
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Object pose estimation is a fundamental problem for an agent system to perceive or manipulate objects in images or videos. However, current instance-level methods struggle with generalization to unseen objects. Category-level methods seek to address this, but remain constrained by the complexities of learning in the non-linear Sim(3) space and intra-class variations. To address these challenges, We propose an effective method for category-level object pose estimation with two key innovations: (1) A translation/size estimator, featuring a semantic-guided symmetry-aware module that leverages robust generalization capabilities of a large vision model (LVM) to infer symmetry points, resulting in accurate translation and size without shape priors. This result serves as a precomputed cue for rotation estimation, thereby reducing the difficulty of learning in the non-linear Sim(3) space and laying a robust foundation for tackling the inherently more challenging rotation estimation. (2) A feature fusion module, based on our proposed spherical large-kernel inception convolution, fuses semantic features from the LVM with systematically computed geometric features to extract essential pose features from intra-class variations by modeling long-range dependencies without excessive computational cost. Built on these innovations, we achieve SOTA on benchmarks and real-world scenes, while developing a robust robotic picking system capable of handling diverse objects. Our code will be available at the project page: {\hypersetup{urlcolor=blue}https://panfei-cheng.github.io/SSH-Pose}.
title Symmetry-Aware 9D Pose Estimation with Sim(3)-Consistent Feature and Spherical Inception Convolution
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.02219