# 6D Object Pose Regression via Supervised Learning on Point Clouds

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2001.08942 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.08942/

## Key facts

- Cited by 33 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- First posted on arXiv 24 Jan 2020.

## Built on by (most cited first, 30 of 33)

- [RGBD Objects in the Wild: Scaling Real-World 3D Object Learning from RGB-D Videos](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2401.12592/) (2024)
- [SAR-Net: Shape Alignment and Recovery Network for Category-level 6D Object Pose and Size Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.14193/) (2021)
- [OVE6D: Object Viewpoint Encoding for Depth-based 6D Object Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.01072/) (2022)
- [Deep Learning-Based Object Pose Estimation: A Comprehensive Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2405.07801/) (2024)
- [Deep Learning on Monocular Object Pose Detection and Tracking: A Comprehensive Overview](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2105.14291/) (2021)
- [CPPF: Towards Robust Category-Level 9D Pose Estimation in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.03089/) (2022)
- [DiffusionNOCS: Managing Symmetry and Uncertainty in Sim2Real Multi-Modal Category-level Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2402.12647/) (2024)
- [Self-Supervised Geometric Correspondence for Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.07199/) (2022)
- [ES6D: A Computation Efficient and Symmetry-Aware 6D Pose Regression Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2204.01080/) (2022)
- [StablePose: Learning 6D Object Poses from Geometrically Stable Patches](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.09334/) (2021)
- [CloudAAE: Learning 6D Object Pose Regression with On-line Data Synthesis on Point Clouds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.01977/) (2021)
- [ViHOPE: Visuotactile In-Hand Object 6D Pose Estimation with Shape Completion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2309.05662/) (2023)
- [GS-Pose: Category-Level Object Pose Estimation via Geometric and Semantic Correspondence](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2311.13777/) (2023)
- [6DOPE-GS: Online 6D Object Pose Estimation using Gaussian Splatting](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.01543/) (2024)
- [Depth-based 6DoF Object Pose Estimation using Swin Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.02133/) (2023)
- [Keypoint Cascade Voting for Point Cloud Based 6DoF Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.08123/) (2022)
- [TransPose: 6D Object Pose Estimation with Geometry-Aware Transformer](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2310.16279/) (2023)
- [CPPF++: Uncertainty-Aware Sim2Real Object Pose Estimation by Vote Aggregation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.13398/) (2022)
- [Quasi-Balanced Self-Training on Noise-Aware Synthesis of Object Point Clouds for Closing Domain Gap](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2203.03833/) (2022)
- [Active 6D Pose Estimation for Textureless Objects using Multi-View RGB Frames](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.03726/) (2025)
- [Structure-Aware Correspondence Learning for Relative Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2503.18671/) (2025)
- [Joint Learning of Pose Regression and Denoising Diffusion with Score Scaling Sampling for Category-level 6D Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.04125/) (2025)
- [Det6D: A Ground-Aware Full-Pose 3D Object Detector for Improving Terrain Robustness](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2207.09412/) (2022)
- [TransPose: A Transformer-based 6D Object Pose Estimation Network with Depth Refinement](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.05561/) (2023)
- [KVN: Keypoints Voting Network with Differentiable RANSAC for Stereo Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.11543/) (2023)
- [FastPoseCNN: Real-Time Monocular Category-Level Pose and Size Estimation Framework](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2406.11063/) (2024)
- [Learning Point Cloud Representations with Pose Continuity for Depth-Based Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.14358/) (2025)
- [SCOPE: Semantic Conditioning for Sim2Real Category-Level Object Pose Estimation in Robotics](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2509.24572/) (2025)
- [DKPMV: Dense Keypoints Fusion from Multi-View RGB Frames for 6D Pose Estimation of Textureless Objects](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.10933/) (2025)
- [Equivariant symmetry-aware head pose estimation for fetal MRI](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2512.04890/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

This paper addresses the task of estimating the 6 degrees of freedom pose of a known 3D object from depth information represented by a point cloud. Deep features learned by convolutional neural networks from color information have been the dominant features to be used for inferring object poses, while depth information receives much less attention. However, depth information contains rich geometric information of the object shape, which is important for inferring the object pose. We use depth information represented by point clouds as the input to both deep networks and geometry-based pose refinement and use separate networks for rotation and translation regression. We argue that the axis-angle representation is a suitable rotation representation for deep learning, and use a geodesic loss function for rotation regression. Ablation studies show that these design choices outperform alternatives such as the quaternion representation and L2 loss, or regressing translation and rotation with the same network. Our simple yet effective approach clearly outperforms state-of-the-art methods on the YCB-video dataset. The implementation and trained model are avaliable at: https://github.com/GeeeG/CloudPose.