A Semantically Disentangled Unified Model for Multi-category 3D Anomaly Detection
arXiv cs.CV / 3/27/2026
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Key Points
- The paper addresses multi-category 3D anomaly detection in point clouds trained only on normal data, focusing on a failure mode called Inter-Category Entanglement (ICE) where shared latent features lead to incorrect semantic priors and unreliable anomaly scores.
- It proposes the Semantically Disentangled Unified Model that reconstructs features conditioned on disentangled semantic representations to prevent category feature overlap.
- The approach combines three components: coarse-to-fine global tokenization for instance-level semantic identity, category-conditioned contrastive learning to separate category semantics, and a geometry-guided decoder for semantically consistent reconstruction.
- Experiments on Real3D-AD and Anomaly-ShapeNet show state-of-the-art performance for both unified and category-specific settings, with reported object-level AUROC gains of 2.8% (unified) and 9.1% (category-specific) and improved reliability of unified 3D anomaly detection.
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