Real-Time Object Pose Estimation with Pose Interpreter Networks

In this work, we introduce pose interpreter networks for 6-DoF object pose estimation. In contrast to other CNN-based approaches to pose estimation that require expensively annotated object pose data, our pose interpreter network is trained entirely on synthetic pose data. We use object masks as an...

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Main Authors: Wu, Jimmy (Author), Zhou, Bolei (Author), Russell, Rebecca (Author), Kee, Vincent (Author), Wagner, Syler (Author), Hebert, Mitchell (Author), Torralba, Antonio (Author), Johnson, David M.S (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE, 2020-01-20T18:35:05Z.
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Summary:In this work, we introduce pose interpreter networks for 6-DoF object pose estimation. In contrast to other CNN-based approaches to pose estimation that require expensively annotated object pose data, our pose interpreter network is trained entirely on synthetic pose data. We use object masks as an intermediate representation to bridge real and synthetic. We show that when combined with a segmentation model trained on RGB images, our synthetically trained pose interpreter network is able to generalize to real data. Our end-to-end system for object pose estimation runs in real-time (20 Hz) on live RGB data, without using depth information or ICP refinement. Keywords: pose estimation; image segmentation; three-dimensional displays; quaternions; real-time systems; training; task analysis