Global Hypothesis Generation for 6D Object Pose Estimation

This paper addresses the task of estimating the 6D pose of a known 3D object from a single RGB-D image. Most modern approaches solve this task in three steps: i) Compute local features; ii) Generate a pool of pose-hypotheses; iii) Select and refine a pose from the pool. This work focuses on the seco...

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Main Authors Michel, Frank, Kirillov, Alexander, Brachmann, Eric, Krull, Alexander, Gumhold, Stefan, Savchynskyy, Bogdan, Rother, Carsten
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published 07.12.2016
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Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
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Summary:This paper addresses the task of estimating the 6D pose of a known 3D object from a single RGB-D image. Most modern approaches solve this task in three steps: i) Compute local features; ii) Generate a pool of pose-hypotheses; iii) Select and refine a pose from the pool. This work focuses on the second step. While all existing approaches generate the hypotheses pool via local reasoning, e.g. RANSAC or Hough-voting, we are the first to show that global reasoning is beneficial at this stage. In particular, we formulate a novel fully-connected Conditional Random Field (CRF) that outputs a very small number of pose-hypotheses. Despite the potential functions of the CRF being non-Gaussian, we give a new and efficient two-step optimization procedure, with some guarantees for optimality. We utilize our global hypotheses generation procedure to produce results that exceed state-of-the-art for the challenging "Occluded Object Dataset".
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1612.02287