Unlocking 3D Affordance Segmentation with 2D Semantic Knowledge

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08316v1
• Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2025 15:01:26 GMT
• Title: Unlocking 3D Affordance Segmentation with 2D Semantic Knowledge
• Authors: Yu Huang, Zelin Peng, Changsong Wen, Xiaokang Yang, Wei Shen,
• Abstract summary: Affordance segmentation aims to parse 3D objects into functionally distinct parts, bridging recognition and interaction for applications in robotic manipulation, embodied AI, and AR.<n>We introduce Cross-Modal Affinity Transfer (CMAT), a pre-training strategy that aligns a 3D encoder with lifted 2D semantics and jointly optimize reconstruction, affinity, and diversity to yield semantically organized representations.<n>We further design the Cross-modal Affordance Transformer (CAST), which integrates multi-modal prompts with CMAT-pretrained features to generate precise, prompt-aware segmentation maps.
• Score: 45.19482892758984
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Affordance segmentation aims to parse 3D objects into functionally distinct parts, bridging recognition and interaction for applications in robotic manipulation, embodied AI, and AR. While recent studies leverage visual or textual prompts to guide this process, they often rely on point cloud encoders as generic feature extractors, overlooking the intrinsic challenges of 3D data such as sparsity, noise, and geometric ambiguity. As a result, 3D features learned in isolation frequently lack clear and semantically consistent functional boundaries. To address this bottleneck, we propose a semantic-grounded learning paradigm that transfers rich semantic knowledge from large-scale 2D Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) into the 3D domain. Specifically, We introduce Cross-Modal Affinity Transfer (CMAT), a pre-training strategy that aligns a 3D encoder with lifted 2D semantics and jointly optimizes reconstruction, affinity, and diversity to yield semantically organized representations. Building on this backbone, we further design the Cross-modal Affordance Segmentation Transformer (CAST), which integrates multi-modal prompts with CMAT-pretrained features to generate precise, prompt-aware segmentation maps. Extensive experiments on standard benchmarks demonstrate that our framework establishes new state-of-the-art results for 3D affordance segmentation.

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