Part Segmentation and Motion Estimation for Articulated Objects with Dynamic 3D Gaussians

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22718v2
• Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:03:15 GMT
• Title: Part Segmentation and Motion Estimation for Articulated Objects with Dynamic 3D Gaussians
• Authors: Jun-Jee Chao, Qingyuan Jiang, Volkan Isler,
• Abstract summary: Part segmentation and motion estimation are fundamental problems for articulated object motion analysis.<n>We present a method to solve these problems jointly from a sequence of observed point clouds of a single articulated object.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Part segmentation and motion estimation are two fundamental problems for articulated object motion analysis. In this paper, we present a method to solve these two problems jointly from a sequence of observed point clouds of a single articulated object. The main challenge in our problem setting is that the point clouds are not assumed to be generated by a fixed set of moving points. Instead, each point cloud in the sequence could be an arbitrary sampling of the object surface at that particular time step. Such scenarios occur when the object undergoes major occlusions, or if the dataset is collected using measurements from multiple sensors asynchronously. In these scenarios, methods that rely on tracking point correspondences are not appropriate. We present an alternative approach based on a compact but effective representation where we represent the object as a collection of simple building blocks modeled as 3D Gaussians. We parameterize the Gaussians with time-dependent rotations, translations, and scales that are shared across all time steps. With our representation, part segmentation can be achieved by building correspondences between the observed points and the Gaussians. Moreover, the transformation of each point across time can be obtained by following the poses of the assigned Gaussian (even when the point is not observed). Experiments show that our method outperforms existing methods that solely rely on finding point correspondences. Additionally, we extend existing datasets to emulate real-world scenarios by considering viewpoint occlusions. We further demonstrate that our method is more robust to missing points as compared to existing approaches on these challenging datasets, even when some parts are completely occluded in some time-steps. Notably, our part segmentation performance outperforms the state-of-the-art method by 13% on point clouds with occlusions.

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