Detecting 6D Poses of Target Objects From Cluttered Scenes by Learning to Align the Point Cloud Patches With the CAD Models

Abstract

6D target object detection is of great importance to many applications such as robotics, industrial automation, and unmanned vehicles and is increasingly influencing broad industries including manufacturing, transportation, and retail industries, to name a few. This paper focuses on detecting the 6D poses of the target objects from the point cloud of a cluttered scene. However, conventional point cloud-based 6D object detection methods rely on the robustness of key-point detection results that are not straightforward for humans to understand. The drawback makes conventional point cloud-based methods require expert knowledge to tune. In this paper, we introduced a 6D target object detection method that uses segmented object point cloud patches instead of key points to predict object 6D poses and identity. Our main contributions are an end-to-end data-driven pose correction model that is enhanced with a novel simple yet efficient basis spanning layer booster. Experiments show that although the proposed model is trained only using object CAD models, its 6D detection performance matches that of the models using view data. Thus, the proposed method is suitable for 6D detection applications that have object CAD models instead of labeled scene data.