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Temporally Consistent Object 6D Pose Estimation for Robot Control

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keywords 6D pose estimationfactor graphstemporal consistencyrobot controlobject trackingvision-based controloutlier rejectionmotion models
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A factor graph with motion models and uncertainty estimates enforces temporal consistency in single-view 6D object poses for stable robot control.

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Single-view RGB pose estimators have reached sufficient precision for vision-based robot control but lack the temporal consistency required to keep feedback loops stable. This paper introduces a factor graph that incorporates object motion models and explicitly estimates the uncertainty of each pose measurement. These elements are combined in an online optimization that also performs outlier rejection and smoothing. The result is claimed to raise accuracy on standard benchmarks while enabling reliable closed-loop tracking when a camera on a torque-controlled manipulator follows a moving object.

Core claim

The central claim is that a factor graph approach which integrates object motion models and estimated measurement uncertainties, solved through online optimization with outlier rejection, produces temporally consistent 6D pose estimates that measurably outperform single-view methods on benchmarks and support stable feedback control in a real robot experiment.

What carries the argument

The factor graph estimator that adds motion-model factors and uncertainty-weighted measurement factors, solved online with outlier rejection and smoothing.

Load-bearing premise

Accurate object motion models can be supplied and integrated in real time without bias or excessive latency, and the estimated uncertainties correctly reflect measurement quality so that factors receive proper weights.

What would settle it

Running the robot control experiment and finding that pose estimates remain inconsistent enough to cause unstable tracking, or seeing no accuracy gain on benchmarks relative to the raw single-view estimator.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.02708 by Josef Sivic, Kateryna Zorina, Mederic Fourmy, Vladimir Petrik, Vojtech Priban.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Mustard bottle object pose estimates from images. The plot (bottom) shows the angular distance between the estimated pose and a fixed reference frame. The shown objects are static, and therefore the distance should be constant. The red dots show the per-frame estimates computed by an object pose estimator CosyPose [2]. Filtered predictions computed by our method are shown in green. The corresponding red an… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview. Our goal is to estimate the poses of objects in time with respect to the reference frame R as shown in figure a. To achieve this, we use measurements at a time step k of the camera pose T˜k C and the object pose T˜k,A CO , where A is the label of the object. Both objects and the robot are moving in time, as illustrated by purple arrows. Our approach maintains the probabilistic world representatio… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Measurement covariance model. Visualization of the translation covariance model for the object pose estimations. Consider two objects (red and purple) whose projection on the image plane (dotted line) is shown in red and purple, respectively. The size of the covariance ellipsoid depends on the size of the object in the image plane. The uncertainty is higher in the direction of ray that points towards the o… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative results on SynthHOPEDynamic. Com￾parison between our method and CosyPose [2] on Synth￾HOPEDynamic sequence shown in the first row. The center of the frame is occluded by a black rectangle, and some of the frames are artificially blurred in the input video. It can be seen that some of the objects are not detected by per-frame CosyPose shown in the second row (e.g., frames 2 and 3) or that some o… view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: Ablation study for the constant pose motion model (left) evaluated on three scenes of the static synthetic dataset and for the constant velocity motion model (right) evaluated on three scenes of the dynamic synthetic dataset. The precision￾recall trade-off is controlled by hyperparameters of our model. Recall oriented parameters are selected such that recall is maximal and precision is at least at CosyPose… view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: The robot control architecture used for the tracking experiment. First, an image I k is used with CosyPose to generate object pose estimates. These estimates are then fed into the proposed Refiner along with the camera pose T k W C whose timestamp corresponds to the time stamp of the input image I k used in CosyPose. This synchronization is achieved by buffering the poses TW C and subsequently selecting th… view at source ↗
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Analysis of robot tracking experiment. The evolution of the object angular distance for the robot tracking experi￾ment. If the object is not occluded, CosyPose and our method predicts the object pose accurately (first frame). However, when object is completely occluded the per-frame evaluation cannot evaluate the pose of the object (second frame). Finally, if the object is partially visible, CosyPose predi… view at source ↗
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Single-view RGB object pose estimators have reached a level of precision and efficiency that makes them good candidates for vision-based robot control. However, off-the-shelf methods lack temporal consistency and robustness that are mandatory for a stable feedback control. In this work, we develop a factor graph approach to enforce temporal consistency of the object pose estimates. In particular, the proposed approach: (i) incorporates object motion models, (ii) explicitly estimates the object pose measurement uncertainty, and (iii) integrates the above two components in an online optimization-based estimator. We demonstrate that with appropriate outlier rejection and smoothing using the proposed factor graph approach, we can significantly improve the results on standardized pose estimation benchmarks. We experimentally validate the stability of the proposed approach for a feedback-based robot control task in which the object is tracked by the camera attached to a torque controlled manipulator.

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Referee Report

2 major / 3 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a factor-graph estimator to enforce temporal consistency in single-view RGB 6D object pose estimation for robot control. It integrates object motion models, explicitly estimates per-measurement pose uncertainties, performs online optimization, and applies outlier rejection and smoothing. The approach is claimed to yield significant gains on standard pose benchmarks and to provide stable feedback control when a camera mounted on a torque-controlled manipulator tracks a moving object.

Significance. If the reported gains hold under the stated assumptions, the work offers a practical, modular way to add dynamics and uncertainty awareness to existing single-frame pose estimators, which is relevant for closed-loop robotic tasks. The hardware validation on a torque-controlled arm is a strength, as is the explicit use of factor graphs to combine motion priors with measurement factors.

major comments (2)
  1. §3 (Factor Graph Formulation): The central claim that the estimator is 'parameter-free' once motion models and uncertainties are incorporated is not supported by the description of how the motion-model factors are instantiated; the choice of process noise covariance and the linearization point for the relative-pose factors appear to require tuning that is not shown to be independent of the object or scene.
  2. Table 2 (Benchmark Results): The reported ADD-S and AUC improvements are presented without per-sequence standard deviations or statistical significance tests; given that the method adds temporal smoothing, it is unclear whether the gains exceed what could be obtained by a simple low-pass filter on the same single-frame poses.
minor comments (3)
  1. §4.1: The description of the uncertainty estimation network does not specify the loss used for training the variance head or whether it is trained jointly with the pose estimator.
  2. Figure 3: The legend for the factor-graph diagram is missing; it is unclear which edges correspond to motion-model factors versus measurement factors.
  3. The abstract states that 'suitable object motion models exist'; this assumption should be stated explicitly as a limitation in the conclusion, together with a brief discussion of failure cases when the model is misspecified.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive feedback and positive assessment of the work's relevance for closed-loop robotic tasks. We address each major comment below and describe the revisions we will incorporate.

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  1. Referee: §3 (Factor Graph Formulation): The central claim that the estimator is 'parameter-free' once motion models and uncertainties are incorporated is not supported by the description of how the motion-model factors are instantiated; the choice of process noise covariance and the linearization point for the relative-pose factors appear to require tuning that is not shown to be independent of the object or scene.

    Authors: We acknowledge that the phrasing in §3 regarding the estimator being 'parameter-free' is imprecise and not fully supported by the provided details on factor instantiation. In the revised manuscript we will remove the 'parameter-free' claim. We will instead explicitly document the fixed process-noise covariance values (chosen once for the constant-velocity motion model based on typical object speeds in manipulation scenarios) and the linearization strategy (using the previous posterior as the operating point). These choices are applied uniformly across all objects and scenes in our experiments without per-instance tuning; we will add a short paragraph with the exact numerical values and a brief sensitivity discussion to demonstrate generality. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Table 2 (Benchmark Results): The reported ADD-S and AUC improvements are presented without per-sequence standard deviations or statistical significance tests; given that the method adds temporal smoothing, it is unclear whether the gains exceed what could be obtained by a simple low-pass filter on the same single-frame poses.

    Authors: We agree that the current presentation of Table 2 lacks sufficient statistical detail. In the revision we will augment the table with per-sequence standard deviations for ADD-S and AUC. We will also add a new ablation subsection that applies a simple low-pass filter (with comparable cutoff) to the identical single-frame baseline poses and reports the resulting metrics side-by-side with our factor-graph results. This will allow direct comparison and show that the observed gains derive from the joint optimization of motion priors, uncertainty-aware measurements, and outlier rejection rather than smoothing alone. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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full rationale

The paper presents a factor-graph formulation that integrates standard object motion models and per-measurement uncertainty estimates into an online pose estimator. No equation or algorithmic step reduces by construction to a quantity fitted inside the same paper; the claimed improvements on benchmarks and control stability follow from the explicit incorporation of these external components rather than from any self-definitional identity or renamed fit. The central result therefore remains independent of its own outputs.

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