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arxiv: 2604.10415 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-12 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.RO

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Point2Pose: Occlusion-Recovering 6D Pose Tracking and 3D Reconstruction for Multiple Unknown Objects Via 2D Point Trackers

Tzu-Yuan Lin , Ho Jae Lee , Kevin Doherty , Yonghyeon Lee , Sangbae Kim
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keywords 6D pose trackingmodel-free trackingocclusion recoveryTSDF reconstructionmulti-object trackingRGB-D videopoint trackers3D reconstruction
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Point2Pose tracks 6D poses of multiple unknown rigid objects from RGB-D video by using 2D point trackers to recover from complete occlusions while building live 3D models.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces Point2Pose, a model-free system that tracks the 6D poses of several unseen rigid objects in monocular RGB-D video starting from only a few initial image points. It relies on a 2D point tracker to supply long-range correspondences across frames, which enables the system to resume tracking the moment an object reappears after being fully hidden. The same process incrementally constructs a Truncated Signed Distance Function volume for each object to support both pose estimation and shape reconstruction. This matters because most earlier model-free trackers cannot handle multiple objects or recover from total occlusion, limiting their use in real scenes where objects move behind others or out of view. The authors also contribute a new dataset with motion-capture ground truth to evaluate these added capabilities.

Core claim

Point2Pose performs causal 6D pose tracking and incremental TSDF reconstruction for multiple previously unseen rigid objects by feeding long-range correspondences from a 2D point tracker into an optimization that aligns the online surface model to the current depth observations, allowing immediate recovery after full occlusions without CAD models or category priors.

What carries the argument

The coupling of a 2D point tracker that maintains long-range correspondences across occlusions with an online TSDF volume that is updated and aligned to current depth data for multi-object pose optimization.

If this is right

  • Multiple objects can be tracked at once within a single monocular RGB-D sequence.
  • Tracking resumes instantly when a fully occluded object becomes visible again.
  • Performance on severe-occlusion benchmarks matches prior single-object methods while adding multi-object and recovery features.
  • 3D surface models are built incrementally without any pre-existing object meshes.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Further improvements in the underlying point tracker could extend reliable tracking to longer occlusions or faster object motions.
  • The live TSDF volumes could feed directly into robotic manipulation planners for grasping previously unknown items.
  • The same correspondence-driven pipeline might adapt to moving cameras if the point tracker is made invariant to ego-motion.

Load-bearing premise

The 2D point tracker must continue to supply reliable long-range point matches even after complete object occlusion, and every tracked object must stay rigid.

What would settle it

A video sequence in which an object is fully occluded for many frames and the 2D point tracker supplies no valid correspondences upon reappearance, causing the pose estimate to lose lock.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.10415 by Ho Jae Lee, Kevin Doherty, Sangbae Kim, Tzu-Yuan Lin, Yonghyeon Lee.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Snapshots from the YCBMultiTrack-Real-World dataset. The sequence shows a severe occlusion of all the tracked objects. As the objects reappear, the proposed method successfully recovers their poses. 1 arXiv:2604.10415v1 [cs.CV] 12 Apr 2026 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Overview of the Point2Pose framework. A 2D point tracker propagates object keypoints [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p004_2.png] view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Example from the YCBMultiTrack-Synthetic dataset: a two-object sequence (toy air￾plane and tomato soup can) with circular motion and mutual occlusions. Evaluation metrics: Following prior works [12, 28, 30], we evaluate 6D pose tracking accuracy using the area under the curve (AUC) of ADD and ADD-S with the groundtruth mesh. At a high level, ADD measures the exact pose error by computing the average distan… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Comparison between low-texture and textured scenes. The green bounding box shows [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_4.png] view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: Results on a fully occluded scene from YCBMultiTrack-Real-World. After the object becomes completely occluded and later re-enters the scene, our method successfully recovers the object pose, whereas BundleSDF [30] loses track and preserves a stale object orientation. 5 Limitations The proposed method has several limitations. First, the underlying 2D point tracker relies on sufficiently discriminative image… view at source ↗
read the original abstract

We present Point2Pose, a model-free method for causal 6D pose tracking of multiple rigid objects from monocular RGB-D video. Initialized only from sparse image points on the objects to be tracked, our approach tracks multiple unseen objects without requiring object CAD models or category priors. Point2Pose leverages a 2D point tracker to obtain long-range correspondences, enabling instant recovery after complete occlusion. Simultaneously, the system incrementally reconstructs an online Truncated Signed Distance Function (TSDF) representation of the tracked targets. Alongside the method, we introduce a new multi-object tracking dataset comprising both simulation and real-world sequences, with motion-capture ground truth for evaluation. Experiments show that Point2Pose achieves performance comparable to the state-of-the-art methods on a severe-occlusion benchmark, while additionally supporting multi-object tracking and recovery from complete occlusion, capabilities that are not supported by previous model-free tracking approaches.

Editorial analysis

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript presents Point2Pose, a model-free system for causal 6D pose tracking and online 3D reconstruction of multiple unknown rigid objects from monocular RGB-D sequences. It relies on 2D point trackers to provide long-range point correspondences that enable recovery from complete occlusions, while fusing an incremental TSDF volume for each object. The authors also contribute a new multi-object dataset with simulation and real-world sequences annotated with motion-capture ground truth. Experiments are said to demonstrate performance comparable to existing state-of-the-art methods on severe-occlusion benchmarks, with the added benefits of multi-object support and occlusion recovery not available in prior model-free trackers.

Significance. Should the quantitative claims be substantiated, the work would represent a meaningful advance in model-free 6D object tracking by solving the occlusion recovery problem through off-the-shelf 2D trackers combined with TSDF fusion. The new dataset is a clear positive contribution that could facilitate future research. The approach is pragmatic in leveraging existing components rather than proposing entirely new modules.

major comments (2)
  1. Experiments section: The claim that Point2Pose 'achieves performance comparable to the state-of-the-art methods on a severe-occlusion benchmark' supplies no numerical results, error bars, ablation studies, or evaluation protocol details, so the data-to-claim link for the central performance assertion cannot be assessed.
  2. Method section: The occlusion-recovery claim depends on the 2D point tracker supplying reliable long-range correspondences after complete occlusion without drift or identity switches. No isolated evaluation or ablation of this precondition is reported, which is load-bearing for the recovery and multi-object claims.
minor comments (2)
  1. Abstract: The statement of 'comparable performance' would benefit from naming the specific baselines and metrics used, even at a high level.
  2. The rigidity assumption for TSDF fusion is stated but its impact on non-rigid motion sequences is not discussed; a brief note on failure modes would improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

2 responses · 0 unresolved

We thank the referee for the constructive feedback on our manuscript. We address each major comment below and will revise the paper to strengthen the presentation of results and supporting analyses.

read point-by-point responses

  1. Referee: Experiments section: The claim that Point2Pose 'achieves performance comparable to the state-of-the-art methods on a severe-occlusion benchmark' supplies no numerical results, error bars, ablation studies, or evaluation protocol details, so the data-to-claim link for the central performance assertion cannot be assessed.

    Authors: We agree that the experiments section requires additional quantitative detail to fully substantiate the performance claim. In the revised manuscript we will add explicit tables reporting mean and median 6D pose errors (with standard deviations) against the cited state-of-the-art baselines on the severe-occlusion sequences, together with a clear statement of the evaluation protocol, metrics, and any error bars. We will also include a brief ablation on key design choices to make the data-to-claim connection transparent. revision: yes

  2. Referee: Method section: The occlusion-recovery claim depends on the 2D point tracker supplying reliable long-range correspondences after complete occlusion without drift or identity switches. No isolated evaluation or ablation of this precondition is reported, which is load-bearing for the recovery and multi-object claims.

    Authors: The referee correctly notes that the 2D tracker’s long-range correspondence quality is a critical precondition. While the tracker is an off-the-shelf component whose general performance is documented in the literature, we acknowledge that an isolated evaluation on our occlusion scenarios would strengthen the paper. In revision we will add a targeted analysis (including qualitative examples and quantitative tracking-success rates before/after full occlusions) drawn from the new dataset to demonstrate that the tracker supplies sufficiently reliable correspondences for our pipeline. We will also discuss observed failure modes and their impact on the overall system. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity: systems integration of external trackers and TSDF without self-referential derivations

full rationale

The paper describes a pipeline that initializes from sparse points, uses an off-the-shelf 2D point tracker for long-range correspondences, and incrementally builds a TSDF volume for pose estimation and reconstruction. No equations, fitted parameters, or predictions are presented that reduce by construction to the inputs. Claims of occlusion recovery and multi-object tracking are supported by experimental results on a new dataset with motion-capture ground truth, not by any internal derivation that assumes its own outputs. The rigidity assumption and tracker reliability are stated as preconditions but are not derived within the paper.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 2 axioms · 0 invented entities

The method rests on the rigidity of tracked objects and the reliability of an external 2D point tracker; no free parameters or new entities are introduced in the abstract.

axioms (2)
  • domain assumption Tracked objects are rigid bodies
    6D pose tracking assumes rigidity so that point correspondences determine a single rigid transform.
  • domain assumption The 2D point tracker produces accurate long-range correspondences after occlusion
    The occlusion-recovery claim depends entirely on this external component working as advertised.

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