Autoencoders as Cross-Modal Teachers: Can Pretrained 2D Image Transformers Help 3D Representation Learning?
Paper โข 2212.08320 โข Published
An ACT point cloud classification model (masked point transformer distilled from a 2D image transformer). Trained on ScanObjectNN (PB_T50_RS).
pip install torch-pointcloud
import torch
import torch_pointcloud as tp
from torch_pointcloud.utils.data import collate
model, info = tp.create_model(
"act.scanobjectnn-hardest.runpei-dong",
pretrained=True,
return_info=True,
)
model = model.eval()
# synthetic sample with the keys a dataset provides
num_points = 8192
sample = {
"pos": torch.randn(num_points, 3),
}
data = collate([sample])
with torch.no_grad():
logits = model(data.get("x"), data["pos"], data["batch"])
with torch.no_grad():
embeddings = model.forward_features(data.get("x"), data["pos"], data["batch"])
model.reset_classifier(num_classes=0)
with torch.no_grad():
embeddings = model(data.get("x"), data["pos"], data["batch"]) # (B, 768)
@inproceedings{dong2023act,
title = {Autoencoders as Cross-Modal Teachers: Can Pretrained {2D} Image Transformers Help {3D} Representation Learning?},
author = {Dong, Runpei and Qi, Zekun and Zhang, Linfeng and Zhang, Junbo and Sun, Jianjian and Ge, Zheng and Yi, Li and Ma, Kaisheng},
booktitle = {ICLR},
year = {2023}
}
@inproceedings{uy2019scanobjectnn,
title = {Revisiting Point Cloud Classification: A New Benchmark Dataset and Classification Model on Real-World Data},
author = {Mikaela Angelina Uy and Quang-Hieu Pham and Binh-Son Hua and Duc Thanh Nguyen and Sai-Kit Yeung},
booktitle = {ICCV},
year = {2019}
}
@software{dujardin2026pytorchpointcloud,
author = {Arthur Dujardin},
title = {PyTorch PointCloud},
year = {2026},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.22159632},
url = {https://github.com/arthurdjn/pytorch-pointcloud},
}
Base model
torch-pointcloud/act.pretrain.runpei-dong