Certifiable 3D Object Pose Estimation: Foundations, Learning Models, and Self-Training

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2206.11215v4
• Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2023 19:47:34 GMT
• Title: Certifiable 3D Object Pose Estimation: Foundations, Learning Models, and Self-Training
• Authors: Rajat Talak, Lisa Peng, and Luca Carlone
• Abstract summary: We consider a certifiable object pose estimation problem, where -- given a partial point cloud of an object -- the goal is to provide a certificate of correctness for the resulting estimate. We propose C-3PO, a semantic-keypoint-based pose estimation model, augmented with the two certificates.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We consider a certifiable object pose estimation problem, where -- given a partial point cloud of an object -- the goal is to not only estimate the object pose, but also to provide a certificate of correctness for the resulting estimate. Our first contribution is a general theory of certification for end-to-end perception models. In particular, we introduce the notion of $\zeta$-correctness, which bounds the distance between an estimate and the ground truth. We show that $\zeta$-correctness can be assessed by implementing two certificates: (i) a certificate of observable correctness, that asserts if the model output is consistent with the input data and prior information, (ii) a certificate of non-degeneracy, that asserts whether the input data is sufficient to compute a unique estimate. Our second contribution is to apply this theory and design a new learning-based certifiable pose estimator. We propose C-3PO, a semantic-keypoint-based pose estimation model, augmented with the two certificates, to solve the certifiable pose estimation problem. C-3PO also includes a keypoint corrector, implemented as a differentiable optimization layer, that can correct large detection errors (e.g. due to the sim-to-real gap). Our third contribution is a novel self-supervised training approach that uses our certificate of observable correctness to provide the supervisory signal to C-3PO during training. In it, the model trains only on the observably correct input-output pairs, in each training iteration. As training progresses, we see that the observably correct input-output pairs grow, eventually reaching near 100% in many cases. Our experiments show that (i) standard semantic-keypoint-based methods outperform more recent alternatives, (ii) C-3PO further improves performance and significantly outperforms all the baselines, and (iii) C-3PO's certificates are able to discern correct pose estimates.

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