iG-6DoF: Model-Free 6DoF Pose Estimation for Unseen Object via Iterative 3D Gaussian Splatting

Traditional methods in pose estimation often rely on precise 3D models or additional data such as depth and normals, limiting their generalization, especially when objects undergo large translations or rotations. We propose iG6DoF, a novel model-free 6D pose estimation method using iterative 3D Gaussian Splatting to estimate the pose of unseen objects. We first estimates an initial pose by leveraging multi-scale data augmentation and the rotation-equivariant features to create a better pose hypothesis from a set of candidates. Then, we propose an iterative 3DGS approach through iteratively rendering and comparing the rendered image with the input image to further progressively improve pose estimation accuracy. The proposed method consists of an object detector, a multi-scale rotation-equivariant feature based initial pose estimator, and a coarse-to-fine pose refiner. Such combination allows our method to focus on the target object in a complex scene dealing with large movement and weak textures. Our method achieves state-of-the-art results on the LINEMOD, OnePose-LowTexture, GenMOP datasets and our self-captured data, demonstrating its strong generalization to unseen objects and robustness across various scenes.