XSemanticFlow: Cross Object Semantic Alignment for Zero-shot Manipulation
作者: Junyu Nan, Noam Eshed, Brian Okorn, Kris Kitani
摘要
Establishing reliable correspondences across diverse objectinstances is fundamental to robust 3D understanding and generalizablemanipulation. However, existing methods are often inconsistent acrossgeometries or vulnerable to non-canonicalized poses, making correspon-dence transfer unreliable. To address this, we propose XSemanticFlow,which learns correspondences from pure semantic features. Given per-object semantic feature _x001C_elds, XSemanticFlow applies hierarchical intra-object self-attention and inter-object cross-attention to predict soft cor-respondence maps. By restricting cross-attention strictly to semantic to-kens, XSemanticFlow avoids geometric over_x001C_tting, enabling it to predictgeneralizable correspondences across di_x001B_erent topologies and producealigned feature _x001C_elds. This enables XSemanticFlow to learn e_x001B_ectivelythrough self-supervised cross-pose alignment on large-scale unlabeledshapes, followed by supervised cross-instance _x001C_netuning on a cosegmen-tation dataset containing labeled object pairs from PartNet. We eval-uate our method on both 3D understanding and manipulation tasks.For 3D understanding, XSemanticFlow improves self-segmentation withSE(3) augmentations by +19.1 mIoU and +20.6 accuracy, and cross-instance cosegmentation by +10.9 mIoU and +12.5 accuracy over base-lines, demonstrating stronger transform consistency and semantic align-ment. For manipulation, XSemanticFlow provides a reliable alternativeto recent video-generation-based pipelines for zero-shot manipulation.Rather than relying on synthesized visual plans, we directly transfer con-tact regions and end-e_x001B_ector trajectories from a single reference demon-stration to novel instances, bypassing the brittle video generation failurescommon in contact-critical tasks.