Real-Time 3D Object Detection with Inference-Aligned Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2511.16140v1
• Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:27:00 GMT
• Title: Real-Time 3D Object Detection with Inference-Aligned Learning
• Authors: Chenyu Zhao, Xianwei Zheng, Zimin Xia, Linwei Yue, Nan Xue,
• Abstract summary: Real-time 3D object detection from point clouds is essential for dynamic scene understanding in applications such as augmented reality, robotics and navigation.<n>We introduce a novel Spatial-prioritized and Rank-aware 3D object detection framework to bridge the gap between how detectors are trained and how they are evaluated.
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• Abstract: Real-time 3D object detection from point clouds is essential for dynamic scene understanding in applications such as augmented reality, robotics and navigation. We introduce a novel Spatial-prioritized and Rank-aware 3D object detection (SR3D) framework for indoor point clouds, to bridge the gap between how detectors are trained and how they are evaluated. This gap stems from the lack of spatial reliability and ranking awareness during training, which conflicts with the ranking-based prediction selection used as inference. Such a training-inference gap hampers the model's ability to learn representations aligned with inference-time behavior. To address the limitation, SR3D consists of two components tailored to the spatial nature of point clouds during training: a novel spatial-prioritized optimal transport assignment that dynamically emphasizes well-located and spatially reliable samples, and a rank-aware adaptive self-distillation scheme that adaptively injects ranking perception via a self-distillation paradigm. Extensive experiments on ScanNet V2 and SUN RGB-D show that SR3D effectively bridges the training-inference gap and significantly outperforms prior methods in accuracy while maintaining real-time speed.

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