BAT3R: Bootstrapping Articulated 3D Reconstruction from 2D Image Collections

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2607.03891v1
• Date: Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:15:21 GMT
• Title: BAT3R: Bootstrapping Articulated 3D Reconstruction from 2D Image Collections
• Abstract summary: 3D reconstruction of articulated objects from a single image is challenging because large training datasets with paired image and 3D supervision are difficult to obtain.<n>Recent point map-based methods achieve strong performance but rely on synthetic datasets rendered from manually created articulated 3D assets.<n>We propose a training framework that reduces this requirement by leveraging unannotated 2D images collections with only a single rigged canonical mesh per category.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: 3D reconstruction of articulated objects from a single image is challenging because large training datasets with paired image and 3D supervision are difficult to obtain. Recent point map-based methods achieve strong performance but rely on synthetic datasets rendered from manually created articulated 3D assets with carefully curated pose distributions. While camera viewpoints can be easily sampled, generating realistic object articulations remains costly and labor-intensive. We propose a training framework that reduces this requirement by leveraging unannotated 2D images collections with only a single rigged canonical mesh per category. Starting from a weak 3D shape predictor trained on canonical-pose renders, we iteratively estimate object articulation and camera pose by fitting the mesh to predicted point maps. The recovered articulations and viewpoints are then used to render updated synthetic training data, progressively improving the predictor. Despite using substantially weaker 3D supervision, our models achieve performance comparable with DualPM, which requires manually curated articulated training datasets.

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