SUFLECA: Scaling Up Feature Learning for CAD-to-image Alignment

arXiv:2607.15058v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: CAD-to-image alignment aims to estimate an object's 9D pose (rotation, translation, and anisotropic scale) from a single RGB image, with applications in robotics and augmented reality. Recent zero-shot methods use vision foundation models to match image regions to CAD models; yet their correspondences are typically appearance-driven or unreliable under occlusion or synthetic-to-real domain shift. To address these limitations, we introduce SUFLECA (Scaling Up Feature LEarning for CAD-to-image Alignment), a weakly supervised framework for zero-shot CAD alignment with two key contributions. First, SUFLECA scales up geometry-grounded feature learning from pretrained visual representations through Normalized Object Coordinates (NOCs) supervision on images spanning up to 12 real and synthetic datasets, learning compact geometry-aware features that generalize across domains. Second, we propose a geometrically consistent matching algorithm that establishes reliable CAD-to-image correspondences. Together, these contributions enable accurate, sub-second alignment per object instance without iterative pose refinement. On ScanNet25k, SUFLECA achieves 32.8%/42.6% category/instance accuracy, outperforming the strongest zero-shot baseline by 9.7/12.5 percentage points with a smaller computational footprint, and for the first time on this benchmark, even surpassing existing pose-supervised methods. Code is available at: https://github.com/snt-arg/SUFLECA

Abstract:CAD-to-image alignment aims to estimate an object's 9D pose (rotation, translation, and anisotropic scale) from a single RGB image, with applications in robotics and augmented reality. Recent zero-shot methods use vision foundation models to match image regions to CAD models; yet their correspondences are typically appearance-driven or unreliable under occlusion or synthetic-to-real domain shift. To address these limitations, we introduce SUFLECA (Scaling Up Feature LEarning for CAD-to-image Alignment), a weakly supervised framework for zero-shot CAD alignment with two key contributions. First, SUFLECA scales up geometry-grounded feature learning from pretrained visual representations through Normalized Object Coordinates (NOCs) supervision on images spanning up to 12 real and synthetic datasets, learning compact geometry-aware features that generalize across domains. Second, we propose a geometrically consistent matching algorithm that establishes reliable CAD-to-image correspondences. Together, these contributions enable accurate, sub-second alignment per object instance without iterative pose refinement. On ScanNet25k, SUFLECA achieves 32.8%/42.6% category/instance accuracy, outperforming the strongest zero-shot baseline by 9.7/12.5 percentage points with a smaller computational footprint, and for the first time on this benchmark, even surpassing existing pose-supervised methods. Code is available at: this https URL

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Robotics (cs.RO)

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