Hierarchical Point-Patch Fusion with Adaptive Patch Codebook for 3D Shape Anomaly Detection

arXiv cs.CV / 4/7/2026

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Key Points

  • The paper introduces a hierarchical point–patch fusion network for 3D shape anomaly detection that combines regional part-level features with local point-level features to improve anomaly reasoning.
  • It adds an adaptive patchification module using self-supervised decomposition to better capture structural deviations across different anomaly types and scales.
  • The method is designed to address limitations of prior approaches, including poor generalization to global geometric errors and sensitivity to noisy or incomplete point samples during training.
  • Results on Anomaly-ShapeNet and Real3D-AD show improved AUC-ROC/AUC-PR performance, with reported point-level gains over 40% on a newly characterized industrial anomaly type.
  • The authors also release an industrial test set containing real CAD models with planar, angular, and structural defects to support more realistic evaluation.

Abstract

3D shape anomaly detection is a crucial task for industrial inspection and geometric analysis. Existing deep learning approaches typically learn representations of normal shapes and identify anomalies via out-of-distribution feature detection or decoder-based reconstruction. They often fail to generalize across diverse anomaly types and scales, such as global geometric errors (e.g., planar shifts, angle misalignments), and are sensitive to noisy or incomplete local points during training. To address these limitations, we propose a hierarchical point-patch anomaly scoring network that jointly models regional part features and local point features for robust anomaly reasoning. An adaptive patchification module integrates self-supervised decomposition to capture complex structural deviations. Beyond evaluations on public benchmarks (Anomaly-ShapeNet and Real3D-AD), we release an industrial test set with real CAD models exhibiting planar, angular, and structural defects. Experiments on public and industrial datasets show superior AUC-ROC and AUC-PR performance, including over 40% point-level improvement on the new industrial anomaly type and average object-level gains of 7% on Real3D-AD and 4% on Anomaly-ShapeNet, demonstrating strong robustness and generalization.