Arbitrary Object
Arbitrary object processing in computer vision aims to develop algorithms capable of understanding, manipulating, and reasoning about objects of any type, regardless of prior knowledge or training data. Current research focuses on developing robust models, often leveraging transformer architectures and diffusion models, to achieve accurate object detection, segmentation, pose estimation, and manipulation in diverse and complex scenes, including those with occlusions and interactions between multiple objects. These advancements are crucial for progress in robotics, autonomous systems, and augmented/virtual reality applications, enabling more flexible and adaptable interactions with the physical world. Furthermore, the development of efficient and generalizable methods for arbitrary object processing is driving innovation in self-supervised learning and knowledge distillation techniques.
Papers
IKEA Object State Dataset: A 6DoF object pose estimation dataset and benchmark for multi-state assembly objects
Yongzhi Su, Mingxin Liu, Jason Rambach, Antonia Pehrson, Anton Berg, Didier Stricker
Rethinking Keypoint Representations: Modeling Keypoints and Poses as Objects for Multi-Person Human Pose Estimation
William McNally, Kanav Vats, Alexander Wong, John McPhee