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New framework creates interactive digital twins from RGB-D videos

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Researchers have developed ArtiTwinSplat, a new framework for creating interactive digital twins of objects from RGB-D videos. This method utilizes 3D Gaussian Splatting to maintain visual realism and an unsupervised pipeline to discover object articulation and joint kinematics from observed motion. The resulting digital twins are stable, queryable, and suitable for real-time rendering, viewpoint control, and interactive manipulation, offering a practical solution for embodied AI and human-robot collaboration. AI

IMPACT Enables more realistic and interactive digital twins for robots, potentially accelerating embodied AI and human-robot collaboration.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains a research paper detailing a new method for reconstructing digital twins.

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New framework creates interactive digital twins from RGB-D videos

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Lijun Guo, Haoyu Zhao, Xingyue Zhao, Rong Fu, Linghao Zhuang, Siteng Huang, Zhongyu Li, Hua Zou ·

    Articulat3D: Reconstructing Articulated Digital Twins From Monocular Videos with Geometric and Motion Constraints

    arXiv:2603.11606v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Building high-fidelity digital twins of articulated objects from visual data remains a central challenge. Existing approaches depend on multi-view captures of the object in discrete, static states, which severely constrains thei…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Pranjal Mishra, Ren\'e Zurbr\"ugg, Max Wilder-Smith, Marco Hutter, Marc Pollefeys, Zuria Bauer, Hermann Blum ·

    ArtiTwinSplat: Interactable Digital Twin Reconstruction via Gaussian Splatting from RGB-D videos

    arXiv:2606.24628v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying robots in unstructured real-world environments needs accurate, interactive models of the objects. Constructing these models at scale remains a critical bottleneck for robotic system integration. We present ArtiTwinSplat,…

  3. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Hermann Blum ·

    ArtiTwinSplat: Interactable Digital Twin Reconstruction via Gaussian Splatting from RGB-D videos

    Deploying robots in unstructured real-world environments needs accurate, interactive models of the objects. Constructing these models at scale remains a critical bottleneck for robotic system integration. We present ArtiTwinSplat, a framework that automatically constructs articul…

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