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Abstract:
Geometric 3D reasoning has received renewed attention recently, in the context
of visual scene understanding. The level of geometric detail, however, is
typically limited to qualitative or coarse-grained quantitative
representations. This is linked to the fact that today's object class detectors
are tuned towards robust 2D matching rather than accurate 3D pose estimation,
encouraged by 2D bounding box-based benchmarks such as Pascal VOC. In this
paper, we therefore revisit ideas from the early days of computer vision,
namely, 3D geometric object class representations for recognition. These
representations can recover geometrically far more accurate object hypotheses
than just 2D bounding boxes, including relative 3D positions of object parts.
In combination with recent robust techniques for shape description and
inference, our approach outperforms state-of-the-art results in 3D pose
estimation, while at the same time improving 2D localization. In a series of
experiments, we analyze our approach in detail, and demonstrate novel
applications enabled by our geometric object class representation, such as
fine-grained categorization of cars according to their 3D geometry and
ultra-wide baseline matching.
