Zero-shot RGB-D Point Cloud Registration with Pre-trained Large Vision Model

Haobo Jiang, Jin Xie, Jian Yang, Liang Yu, Jianmin Zheng; Proceedings of the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference (CVPR), 2025, pp. 16943-16952

This paper introduces ZeroMatch, a novel zero-shot RGB-D point cloud registration framework, aimed at achieving robust 3D matching on unseen data without any task-specific training. Our core idea is to utilize the powerful zero-shot image representation of Stable Diffusion, achieved through extensive pre-training on large-scale data, to enhance point-cloud geometric descriptors for robust matching. Specifically, we combine the handcrafted geometric descriptor FPFH with Stable-Diffusion features to create point descriptors that are both locally and contextually aware, enabling reliable RGB-D registration with zero-shot capability. This approach is based on our observation that Stable-Diffusion features effectively encode discriminative global contextual cues, naturally alleviating the feature ambiguity that FPFH often encounters in scenes with repetitive patterns or low overlap. To further enhance cross-view consistency of Stable-Diffusion features for improved matching, we propose a coupled-image input mode that concatenates the source and target images into a single input, replacing the original single-image mode. This design achieves both inter-image and prompt-to-image consistency attentions, facilitating robust cross-view feature interaction and alignment. Finally, we leverage feature nearest neighbors to construct putative correspondences for hypothesize-and-verify transformation estimation. Extensive experiments on 3DMatch, ScanNet, and ScanLoNet verify the excellent zero-shot matching ability of our method.