# Occlusion-Robust Object Pose Estimation with Holistic Representation

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2110.11636 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2110.11636/

## Key facts

- Cited by 6 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 41 of its 65 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 22 Oct 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 41)

- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Mask R-CNN](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.06870/) (2017)
- [SSD: Single Shot MultiBox Detector](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.02325/) (2015)
- [YOLO9000: Better, Faster, Stronger](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.08242/) (2016)
- [Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Visual Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.07919/) (2019)
- [Deep High-Resolution Representation Learning for Human Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.09212/) (2019)
- [Random Erasing Data Augmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1708.04896/) (2017)
- [PoseCNN: A Convolutional Neural Network for 6D Object Pose Estimation in Cluttered Scenes](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.00199/) (2017)
- [Multi-View 3D Object Detection Network for Autonomous Driving](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1611.07759/) (2016)
- [PVNet: Pixel-wise Voting Network for 6DoF Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.11788/) (2018)
- [DenseFusion: 6D Object Pose Estimation by Iterative Dense Fusion](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1901.04780/) (2019)
- [CosyPose: Consistent multi-view multi-object 6D pose estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2008.08465/) (2020)
- [DeepIM: Deep Iterative Matching for 6D Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1804.00175/) (2018)
- [BOP: Benchmark for 6D Object Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1808.08319/) (2018)
- [SSD-6D: Making RGB-based 3D detection and 6D pose estimation great again](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.10006/) (2017)
- [BB8: A Scalable, Accurate, Robust to Partial Occlusion Method for Predicting the 3D Poses of Challenging Objects without Using Depth](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.10896/) (2017)
- [Pix2Pose: Pixel-Wise Coordinate Regression of Objects for 6D Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.07433/) (2019)
- [Real-Time Seamless Single Shot 6D Object Pose Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.08848/) (2017)
- [Hide-and-Seek: Forcing a Network to be Meticulous for Weakly-supervised Object and Action Localization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1704.04232/) (2017)
- [PVN3D: A Deep Point-wise 3D Keypoints Voting Network for 6DoF Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.04231/) (2019)
- [DPOD: 6D Pose Object Detector and Refiner](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1902.11020/) (2019)
- [Understanding the Limitations of CNN-based Absolute Camera Pose Regression](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1903.07504/) (2019)
- [PointFusion: Deep Sensor Fusion for 3D Bounding Box Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1711.10871/) (2017)
- [GDRNPP: A Geometry-guided and Fully Learning-based Object Pose Estimator](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2102.12145/) (2021)
- [FS-Net: Fast Shape-based Network for Category-Level 6D Object Pose Estimation with Decoupled Rotation Mechanism](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.07054/) (2021)
- [HybridPose: 6D Object Pose Estimation under Hybrid Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2001.01869/) (2020)
- [Segmentation-driven 6D Object Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1812.02541/) (2018)
- [Render for CNN: Viewpoint Estimation in Images Using CNNs Trained with Rendered 3D Model Views](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.05641/) (2015)
- [6-DoF Object Pose from Semantic Keypoints](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1703.04670/) (2017)
- [Single-Stage 6D Object Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.08324/) (2019)

## Built on by (most cited first, 6 of 6)

- [RelPose: Predicting Probabilistic Relative Rotation for Single Objects in the Wild](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2208.05963/) (2022)
- [Pose-Aware Self-Supervised Learning with Viewpoint Trajectory Regularization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.14973/) (2024)
- [Linear-Covariance Loss for End-to-End Learning of 6D Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2303.11516/) (2023)
- [HccePose(BF): Predicting Front & Back Surfaces to Construct Ultra-Dense 2D-3D Correspondences for Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2510.10177/) (2025)
- [Linear time small coresets for k-mean clustering of segments with applications](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.12564/) (2025)
- [Robust PnP on a Neuromorphic Processor for Object Pose Estimation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2607.16834/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Practical object pose estimation demands robustness against occlusions to the target object. State-of-the-art (SOTA) object pose estimators take a two-stage approach, where the first stage predicts 2D landmarks using a deep network and the second stage solves for 6DOF pose from 2D-3D correspondences. Albeit widely adopted, such two-stage approaches could suffer from novel occlusions when generalising and weak landmark coherence due to disrupted features. To address these issues, we develop a novel occlude-and-blackout batch augmentation technique to learn occlusion-robust deep features, and a multi-precision supervision architecture to encourage holistic pose representation learning for accurate and coherent landmark predictions. We perform careful ablation tests to verify the impact of our innovations and compare our method to SOTA pose estimators. Without the need of any post-processing or refinement, our method exhibits superior performance on the LINEMOD dataset. On the YCB-Video dataset our method outperforms all non-refinement methods in terms of the ADD(-S) metric. We also demonstrate the high data-efficiency of our method. Our code is available at http://github.com/BoChenYS/ROPE