DINO in the Room: Leveraging 2D Foundation Models for 3D Segmentation

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Main Authors: Knaebel, Karim, Yilmaz, Kadir, de Geus, Daan, Hermans, Alexander, Adrian, David, Linder, Timm, Leibe, Bastian
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author Knaebel, Karim
Yilmaz, Kadir
de Geus, Daan
Hermans, Alexander
Adrian, David
Linder, Timm
Leibe, Bastian
author_facet Knaebel, Karim
Yilmaz, Kadir
de Geus, Daan
Hermans, Alexander
Adrian, David
Linder, Timm
Leibe, Bastian
contents Vision foundation models (VFMs) trained on large-scale image datasets provide high-quality features that have significantly advanced 2D visual recognition. However, their potential in 3D scene segmentation remains largely untapped, despite the common availability of 2D images alongside 3D point cloud datasets. While significant research has been dedicated to 2D-3D fusion, recent state-of-the-art 3D methods predominantly focus on 3D data, leaving the integration of VFMs into 3D models underexplored. In this work, we challenge this trend by introducing DITR, a generally applicable approach that extracts 2D foundation model features, projects them to 3D, and finally injects them into a 3D point cloud segmentation model. DITR achieves state-of-the-art results on both indoor and outdoor 3D semantic segmentation benchmarks. To enable the use of VFMs even when images are unavailable during inference, we additionally propose to pretrain 3D models by distilling 2D foundation models. By initializing the 3D backbone with knowledge distilled from 2D VFMs, we create a strong basis for downstream 3D segmentation tasks, ultimately boosting performance across various datasets.
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spellingShingle DINO in the Room: Leveraging 2D Foundation Models for 3D Segmentation
Knaebel, Karim
Yilmaz, Kadir
de Geus, Daan
Hermans, Alexander
Adrian, David
Linder, Timm
Leibe, Bastian
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Vision foundation models (VFMs) trained on large-scale image datasets provide high-quality features that have significantly advanced 2D visual recognition. However, their potential in 3D scene segmentation remains largely untapped, despite the common availability of 2D images alongside 3D point cloud datasets. While significant research has been dedicated to 2D-3D fusion, recent state-of-the-art 3D methods predominantly focus on 3D data, leaving the integration of VFMs into 3D models underexplored. In this work, we challenge this trend by introducing DITR, a generally applicable approach that extracts 2D foundation model features, projects them to 3D, and finally injects them into a 3D point cloud segmentation model. DITR achieves state-of-the-art results on both indoor and outdoor 3D semantic segmentation benchmarks. To enable the use of VFMs even when images are unavailable during inference, we additionally propose to pretrain 3D models by distilling 2D foundation models. By initializing the 3D backbone with knowledge distilled from 2D VFMs, we create a strong basis for downstream 3D segmentation tasks, ultimately boosting performance across various datasets.
title DINO in the Room: Leveraging 2D Foundation Models for 3D Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18944