Thousand Yard Stare

Rendering Normalized Object Coordinates in Blender 3.3

a header image visualizing a tless object and suzanne, both with diffuse texture and visualized normalized object coordinates (NOCs).

As methods for estimating 6D poses from images gather momentum, "Normalized Object Coordinates" have entered the arena. These are pixel-wise encodings of the object position. In that sense, they are like a normal map, but instead of encoding the normal at every point, they encode the position.

How can we …

Blender
Normalized Object Coordinates
NOCS
Pose Estimation