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UniPart advances embodied AI by enabling zero-shot, text-conditioned segmentation of functional parts within 3D point clouds, addressing a critical gap in fine-grained robotic manipulation. The model leverages cross-modal transformers and a massive synthetic dataset to achieve strong open-vocabulary performance that transfers effectively to real-world grasping tasks. This work represents a significant step toward more versatile and language-grounded foundation models for robotics.
UniPart: Towards Zero-shot Language-Grounded 3D Part Segmentation for Embodied Interaction
arXiv:2609.12898v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-grained robotic manipulation depends on understanding parts, not only whole objects. Existing 3D foundation models tend to be either generalized but object-aware, or part-aware but limited to closed-set taxonomies, which weakens zero-shot transfer. We study text-conditioned 3D part segmentation, where a free-form phrase selects a functional part on point cloud. We introduce UniPart, a feed-forward cross-modal 3D Transformer that conditions CLIP text embedding. To scale supervision, we build LangPart-1M with 160K+ Objaverse assets and 8M text to part pairs using multi-view consistent part generation. We further manually label a high-quality subset, LangPart-4K, for fine-tuning and evaluation. UniPart achieves strong zero-shot results on open-vocabulary part benchmarks and transfers to language-conditioned part grasping in real world.
Abstract:Fine-grained robotic manipulation depends on understanding parts, not only whole objects. Existing 3D foundation models tend to be either generalized but object-aware, or part-aware but limited to closed-set taxonomies, which weakens zero-shot transfer. We study text-conditioned 3D part segmentation, where a free-form phrase selects a functional part on point cloud. We introduce UniPart, a feed-forward cross-modal 3D Transformer that conditions CLIP text embedding. To scale supervision, we build LangPart-1M with 160K+ Objaverse assets and 8M text to part pairs using multi-view consistent part generation. We further manually label a high-quality subset, LangPart-4K, for fine-tuning and evaluation. UniPart achieves strong zero-shot results on open-vocabulary part benchmarks and transfers to language-conditioned part grasping in real world.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Robotics (cs.RO)
arXiv:2609.12898 [cs.CV]
(or arXiv:2609.12898v1 [cs.CV] for this version)
https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2609.12898 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)
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