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PointCLIP V2: Prompting CLIP and GPT for Powerful 3D Open-world Learning

21 Nov 2022ICCV 2023 1arXiv:2211.11682archive 2025-07-28

Xiangyang Zhu, Renrui Zhang, Bowei He, Ziyu Guo, Ziyao Zeng, Zipeng Qin, Shanghang Zhang, Peng Gao

Large-scale pre-trained models have shown promising open-world performance for both vision and language tasks. However, their transferred capacity on 3D point clouds is still limited and only constrained to the classification task. In this paper, we first collaborate CLIP and GPT to be a unified 3D open-world learner, named as PointCLIP V2, which fully unleashes their potential for zero-shot 3D classification, segmentation, and detection. To better align 3D data with the pre-trained language knowledge, PointCLIP V2 contains two key designs. For the visual end, we prompt CLIP via a shape projection module to generate more realistic depth maps, narrowing the domain gap between projected point clouds with natural images. For the textual end, we prompt the GPT model to generate 3D-specific text as the input of CLIP's textual encoder. Without any training in 3D domains, our approach significantly surpasses PointCLIP by +42.90%, +40.44%, and +28.75% accuracy on three datasets for zero-shot 3D classification. On top of that, V2 can be extended to few-shot 3D classification, zero-shot 3D part segmentation, and 3D object detection in a simple manner, demonstrating our generalization ability for unified 3D open-world learning.

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Tasks

3D Classification3D Object Detection3D Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation3D Part SegmentationClassificationDescriptiveObject DetectionOpen Vocabulary Object DetectionTraining-free 3D Part SegmentationTraining-free 3D Point Cloud ClassificationZero-Shot Transfer 3D Point Cloud ClassificationZero-shot 3D Point Cloud ClassificationZero-shot 3D classificationobject-detection

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
3D Open-Vocabulary Instance Segmentation STPLS3D PointCLIPV2 AP50 03.1 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Training-free 3D Part Segmentation ShapeNet-Part PointCLIP V2 Need 3D Data? No #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Training-free 3D Part Segmentation ShapeNet-Part PointCLIP V2 mIoU 48.4 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Training-free 3D Point Cloud Classification ModelNet40 PointCLIP V2 Accuracy (%) 64.2 #3 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Training-free 3D Point Cloud Classification ModelNet40 PointCLIP V2 Need 3D Data? No #3 of 7 Archive leaderboard report
Training-free 3D Point Cloud Classification ScanObjectNN PointCLIP V2 Accuracy (%) 35.4 #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Training-free 3D Point Cloud Classification ScanObjectNN PointCLIP V2 Need 3D Data? No #3 of 6 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer 3D Point Cloud Classification ModelNet10 PointCLIP V2 Accuracy (%) 73.13 #2 of 4 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer 3D Point Cloud Classification ModelNet40 PointCLIP V2 Accuracy (%) 64.22 #11 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer 3D Point Cloud Classification ScanObjectNN PointCLIP V2 OBJ_BG Accuracy(%) 41.22 #7 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer 3D Point Cloud Classification ScanObjectNN PointCLIP V2 OBJ_ONLY Accuracy(%) 50.09 #7 of 10 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Transfer 3D Point Cloud Classification ScanObjectNN PointCLIP V2 PB_T50_RS Accuracy (%) 35.36 #7 of 10 Archive leaderboard report

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Methods

ALIGNAdamAttentionAttention DropoutBPECLIPCosine AnnealingDense ConnectionsDiscriminative Fine-TuningDropoutGPTLayer NormalizationLinear LayerLinear Warmup With Cosine AnnealingMulti-Head AttentionResidual ConnectionSoftmaxWeight Decay

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