PACA: Prespective-Aware Cross-Attention Representation for Zero-Shot Scene Rearrangement

Shutong Jin, Ruiyu Wang, Kuangyi Chen, Florian T. Pokorny; Proceedings of the Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), 2025, pp. 6559-6569

Scene rearrangement like table tidying is a challenging task in robotic manipulation due to the complexity of predicting diverse object arrangements. Web-scale trained generative models such as Stable Diffusion can aid by generating natural scenes as goals. To facilitate robot execution object-level representations must be extracted to match the real scenes with the generated goals and to calculate object pose transformations. Current methods typically use a multi-step design that involves separate models for generation segmentation and feature encoding which can lead to a low success rate due to error accumulation. Furthermore they lack control over the viewing perspectives of the generated goals restricting the tasks to 3-DoF settings. In this paper we propose PACA a zero-shot pipeline for scene rearrangement that leverages perspective-aware cross-attention representation derived from Stable Diffusion. Specifically we develop an object-level representation that integrates generation segmentation and feature encoding into a single step. Additionally we introduce perspective control thus enabling the matching of 6-DoF camera views and extending past approaches that were limited to 3-DoF top-down settings. The efficacy of our method is demonstrated through its zero-shot performance in real robot experiments across various scenes achieving an average matching accuracy and execution success rate of 87% and 67% respectively.