Exploiting Priors from 3D Diffusion Models for RGB-Based One-Shot View Planning




Authors:

S. Pan, L. Jin, X. Huang, C. Stachniss, M. Popović, M. Bennewitz

Type:

Conference Proceeding

Published in:

IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

Year:

2024

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@inproceedings{pan24iros,
title={Exploiting Priors from 3D Diffusion Models for RGB-Based One-Shot View Planning},
author={Pan, Sicong and Jin, Liren and Huang, Xuying and Stachniss, Cyrill and Popovi{\'c}, Marija and Bennewitz, Maren},
booktitle={IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
year={2024}
}
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Abstract:

Object reconstruction is relevant for many autonomous robotic tasks that require interaction with the environment. A key challenge in such scenarios is planning view configurations to collect informative measurements for reconstructing an initially unknown object. One-shot view planning enables efficient data collection by predicting view configurations and planning the globally shortest path connecting all views at once. However, geometric priors about the object are required to conduct one-shot view planning. In this work, we propose a novel one-shot view planning approach that utilizes the powerful 3D generation capabilities of diffusion models as priors. By incorporating such geometric priors into our pipeline, we achieve effective one-shot view planning starting with only a single RGB image of the object to be reconstructed. Our planning experiments in simulation and real-world setups indicate that our approach balances well between object reconstruction quality and movement cost.