DINO Eats CLIP: Adapting Beyond Knowns for Open-set 3D Object Retrieval

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Main Authors: He, Xinwei, Zheng, Yansong, Han, Qianru, Wang, Zhichuan, Cai, Yuxuan, Zhou, Yang, Xia, Jingbo, Wang, Yulong, Xiang, Jinhai, Bai, Xiang
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author He, Xinwei
Zheng, Yansong
Han, Qianru
Wang, Zhichuan
Cai, Yuxuan
Zhou, Yang
Xia, Jingbo
Wang, Yulong
Xiang, Jinhai
Bai, Xiang
author_facet He, Xinwei
Zheng, Yansong
Han, Qianru
Wang, Zhichuan
Cai, Yuxuan
Zhou, Yang
Xia, Jingbo
Wang, Yulong
Xiang, Jinhai
Bai, Xiang
contents Vision foundation models have shown great promise for open-set 3D object retrieval (3DOR) through efficient adaptation to multi-view images. Leveraging semantically aligned latent space, previous work typically adapts the CLIP encoder to build view-based 3D descriptors. Despite CLIP's strong generalization ability, its lack of fine-grainedness prompted us to explore the potential of a more recent self-supervised encoder-DINO. To address this, we propose DINO Eats CLIP (DEC), a novel framework for dynamic multi-view integration that is regularized by synthesizing data for unseen classes. We first find that simply mean-pooling over view features from a frozen DINO backbone gives decent performance. Yet, further adaptation causes severe overfitting on average view patterns of known classes. To combat it, we then design a module named Chunking and Adapting Module (CAM). It segments multi-view images into chunks and dynamically integrates local view relations, yielding more robust features than the standard pooling strategy. Finally, we propose Virtual Feature Synthesis (VFS) module to mitigate bias towards known categories explicitly. Under the hood, VFS leverages CLIP's broad, pre-aligned vision-language space to synthesize virtual features for unseen classes. By exposing DEC to these virtual features, we greatly enhance its open-set discrimination capacity. Extensive experiments on standard open-set 3DOR benchmarks demonstrate its superior efficacy.
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spellingShingle DINO Eats CLIP: Adapting Beyond Knowns for Open-set 3D Object Retrieval
He, Xinwei
Zheng, Yansong
Han, Qianru
Wang, Zhichuan
Cai, Yuxuan
Zhou, Yang
Xia, Jingbo
Wang, Yulong
Xiang, Jinhai
Bai, Xiang
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Vision foundation models have shown great promise for open-set 3D object retrieval (3DOR) through efficient adaptation to multi-view images. Leveraging semantically aligned latent space, previous work typically adapts the CLIP encoder to build view-based 3D descriptors. Despite CLIP's strong generalization ability, its lack of fine-grainedness prompted us to explore the potential of a more recent self-supervised encoder-DINO. To address this, we propose DINO Eats CLIP (DEC), a novel framework for dynamic multi-view integration that is regularized by synthesizing data for unseen classes. We first find that simply mean-pooling over view features from a frozen DINO backbone gives decent performance. Yet, further adaptation causes severe overfitting on average view patterns of known classes. To combat it, we then design a module named Chunking and Adapting Module (CAM). It segments multi-view images into chunks and dynamically integrates local view relations, yielding more robust features than the standard pooling strategy. Finally, we propose Virtual Feature Synthesis (VFS) module to mitigate bias towards known categories explicitly. Under the hood, VFS leverages CLIP's broad, pre-aligned vision-language space to synthesize virtual features for unseen classes. By exposing DEC to these virtual features, we greatly enhance its open-set discrimination capacity. Extensive experiments on standard open-set 3DOR benchmarks demonstrate its superior efficacy.
title DINO Eats CLIP: Adapting Beyond Knowns for Open-set 3D Object Retrieval
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.19432