In the fields of computing and computer vision, pose (or spatial pose) represents the position and orientation of an object, usually in three dimensions.[1] Poses are often stored internally as transformation matrices.[2][3] The term “pose” is largely synonymous with the term “transform”, but a transform may often include scale, whereas pose does not.[4][5]
In computer vision, the pose of an object is often estimated from camera input by the process of pose estimation. This information can then be used, for example, to allow a robot to manipulate an object or to avoid moving into the object based on its perceived position and orientation in the environment. Other applications include skeletal action recognition.