Robust 6d object pose estimation by learning rgb-d features

M Tian, L Pan, MH Ang, GH Lee - 2020 IEEE International …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
M Tian, L Pan, MH Ang, GH Lee
2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2020ieeexplore.ieee.org
Accurate 6D object pose estimation is fundamental to robotic manipulation and grasping.
Previous methods follow a local optimization approach which minimizes the distance
between closest point pairs to handle the rotation ambiguity of symmetric objects. In this
work, we propose a novel discrete-continuous formulation for rotation regression to resolve
this local-optimum problem. We uniformly sample rotation anchors in SO (3), and predict a
constrained deviation from each anchor to the target, as well as uncertainty scores for …
Accurate 6D object pose estimation is fundamental to robotic manipulation and grasping. Previous methods follow a local optimization approach which minimizes the distance between closest point pairs to handle the rotation ambiguity of symmetric objects. In this work, we propose a novel discrete- continuous formulation for rotation regression to resolve this local-optimum problem. We uniformly sample rotation anchors in SO(3), and predict a constrained deviation from each anchor to the target, as well as uncertainty scores for selecting the best prediction. Additionally, the object location is detected by aggregating point-wise vectors pointing to the 3D center. Experiments on two benchmarks: LINEMOD and YCB-Video, show that the proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art approaches. Our code is available at https://github.com/mentian/object-posenet.
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