PCQA-R1: Advancing Generalized 3D Point Cloud Quality Assessment with Reinforcement Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2608.18627v1
• Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 07:21:58 GMT
• Title: PCQA-R1: Advancing Generalized 3D Point Cloud Quality Assessment with Reinforcement Learning
• Abstract summary: No-reference point cloud quality assessment (PCQA) has been an active topic in recent years and is used to measure and optimize the visual experience of point clouds.<n>We present PCQA-R1, the first reinforcement learning LMM for 3D point cloud quality assessment to simultaneously model quality understanding and scoring.
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• Abstract: No-reference point cloud quality assessment (PCQA) has been an active topic in recent years and is used to measure and optimize the visual experience of point clouds. However, large multimodal models (LMMs) have rarely been explored in this area. Previous LMM-based methods mainly rely on supervised fine-tuning to directly predict numerical quality scores, lacking the ability to generalize across datasets with heterogeneous MOS scales and limited annotations. A key difficulty is that absolute MOS regression can be brittle across datasets with different score scales and distortion distributions, whereas relative quality ranking is more stable under such shifts. In this paper, we present PCQA-R1, the first reinforcement learning LMM for 3D point cloud quality assessment to simultaneously model quality understanding and scoring. Built upon the group relative policy optimization (GRPO) strategy, PCQA-R1 first constructs a chain-of-thought dataset, PCQA-CoT, which serves as cold-start training data through a reverse reasoning strategy that teaches the LMM to generate its reasoning process. We further introduce a Gaussian proximity reward that prevents calibration drift by anchoring score predictions to the source MOS range. Experimental results demonstrate that PCQA-R1 achieves state-of-the-art cross-dataset generalization across five benchmarks and competitive in-domain accuracy. Ablation studies support the role of ranking, Gaussian reward, and cold-start traces.

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