Detecting Pose Estimation Failures via Keypoint Self-Consistency

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.03516v1
• Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:59:10 GMT
• Title: Detecting Pose Estimation Failures via Keypoint Self-Consistency
• Abstract summary: Keypoint-based pose estimation methods are imprecise when keypoints are predicted independently from each other.<n>We propose a set of hand-crafted geometric features that capture the self-consistency of keypoint predictions.<n>Despite its simplicity, a logistic regression trained on these features reliably detects pose estimation failures.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: One common approach to pose estimation involves predicting object keypoints in an image, followed by using Perspective-n-Point algorithms to compute the object's rotation and translation relative to the camera. While rotations preserve object shapes, this property is often neglected in keypoint-based pose estimation methods, where keypoints are typically predicted independently from each other. As imprecise keypoint predictions negatively affects pose estimation accuracy, it also limits its reliability in downstream tasks. In this work, we explore whether such inaccurate pose estimates can be identified by simply examining spatial locations between 2D keypoints. We propose a set of hand-crafted geometric features that capture the self-consistency of keypoint predictions, including pairwise distances, reprojection consistency, as well as render and mask consistency. Despite its simplicity, a logistic regression classifier trained on these features reliably detects pose estimation failures, outperforming confidence-based approaches like conformal keypoint predictions that rely solely on keypoint uncertainty.

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