Hierarchical Collaborative Fusion for 3D Instance-aware Referring Expression Segmentation

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Main Authors: Zhou, Keshen, Chen, Runnan, Gong, Mingming, Liu, Tongliang
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author Zhou, Keshen
Chen, Runnan
Gong, Mingming
Liu, Tongliang
author_facet Zhou, Keshen
Chen, Runnan
Gong, Mingming
Liu, Tongliang
contents Generalised 3D Referring Expression Segmentation (3D-GRES) localizes objects in 3D scenes based on natural language, even when descriptions match multiple or zero targets. Existing methods rely solely on sparse point clouds, lacking rich visual semantics for fine-grained descriptions. We propose HCF-RES, a multi-modal framework with two key innovations. First, Hierarchical Visual Semantic Decomposition leverages SAM instance masks to guide CLIP encoding at dual granularities -- pixel-level and instance-level features -- preserving object boundaries during 2D-to-3D projection. Second, Progressive Multi-level Fusion integrates representations through intra-modal collaboration, cross-modal adaptive weighting between 2D semantic and 3D geometric features, and language-guided refinement. HCF-RES achieves state-of-the-art results on both ScanRefer and Multi3DRefer.
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spellingShingle Hierarchical Collaborative Fusion for 3D Instance-aware Referring Expression Segmentation
Zhou, Keshen
Chen, Runnan
Gong, Mingming
Liu, Tongliang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Generalised 3D Referring Expression Segmentation (3D-GRES) localizes objects in 3D scenes based on natural language, even when descriptions match multiple or zero targets. Existing methods rely solely on sparse point clouds, lacking rich visual semantics for fine-grained descriptions. We propose HCF-RES, a multi-modal framework with two key innovations. First, Hierarchical Visual Semantic Decomposition leverages SAM instance masks to guide CLIP encoding at dual granularities -- pixel-level and instance-level features -- preserving object boundaries during 2D-to-3D projection. Second, Progressive Multi-level Fusion integrates representations through intra-modal collaboration, cross-modal adaptive weighting between 2D semantic and 3D geometric features, and language-guided refinement. HCF-RES achieves state-of-the-art results on both ScanRefer and Multi3DRefer.
title Hierarchical Collaborative Fusion for 3D Instance-aware Referring Expression Segmentation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.06250