Although 6D object pose estimation has been intensively explored in the past decades, the performance is still not fully satisfactory, especially when it comes to symmetric objects. In this paper, we study the problem of 6D object pose estimation by leveraging the information of object symmetry. To this end, a network is proposed that predicts 6D object pose and object reflectional symmetry as well as the key points simultaneously via a multitask learning scheme. Consequently, the pose estimation is aware of and r…