PUGS: Zero-shot Physical Understanding with Gaussian Splatting

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.12231v2
• Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 11:50:12 GMT
• Title: PUGS: Zero-shot Physical Understanding with Gaussian Splatting
• Authors: Yinghao Shuai, Ran Yu, Yuantao Chen, Zijian Jiang, Xiaowei Song, Nan Wang, Jv Zheng, Jianzhu Ma, Meng Yang, Zhicheng Wang, Wenbo Ding, Hao Zhao,
• Abstract summary: Current robotic systems can understand categories and poses of objects well.<n>But understanding physical properties like mass, friction, and hardness, in the wild, remains challenging.<n>We propose a new method that reconstructs 3D objects using the Gaussian splatting representation and predicts various physical properties in a zero-shot manner.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Current robotic systems can understand the categories and poses of objects well. But understanding physical properties like mass, friction, and hardness, in the wild, remains challenging. We propose a new method that reconstructs 3D objects using the Gaussian splatting representation and predicts various physical properties in a zero-shot manner. We propose two techniques during the reconstruction phase: a geometry-aware regularization loss function to improve the shape quality and a region-aware feature contrastive loss function to promote region affinity. Two other new techniques are designed during inference: a feature-based property propagation module and a volume integration module tailored for the Gaussian representation. Our framework is named as zero-shot physical understanding with Gaussian splatting, or PUGS. PUGS achieves new state-of-the-art results on the standard benchmark of ABO-500 mass prediction. We provide extensive quantitative ablations and qualitative visualization to demonstrate the mechanism of our designs. We show the proposed methodology can help address challenging real-world grasping tasks. Our codes, data, and models are available at https://github.com/EverNorif/PUGS

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