End-to-end model writes 3D scene graphs directly from point clouds or Gaussian splats

GraphWrit3R outputs a structured JSON script listing objects, attributes, and relationships, bypassing multi-stage pipelines and ground-truth annotations.

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Luka Milivojevic · Nikola Popovic · Sayan Deb Sarkar · Sebastian Koch · Iro Armeni · Luc Van Gool · +1 more

INSAIT, Sofia University · Stanford University · Ulm University

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GraphWrit3R directly converts point clouds or Gaussian Splats into JSON scene graphs and achieves state-of-the-art recall on 3DSSG without inference-time object annotations.

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GraphWrit3R replaces multi-stage 3D scene-graph pipelines with an end-to-end model that emits objects, attributes, and relationships as structured JSON. It accepts point clouds, Gaussian Splats, or both, and supports open-vocabulary queries through its language-model decoder.

Point clouds and Gaussian Splats are encoded separately, projected onto a shared voxel grid, and aligned with a per-voxel contrastive loss before decoding. On 3DSSG, the system reports state-of-the-art object-class, predicate, and triplet recall, including against methods given ground-truth object annotations at inference. This is interesting for deployable 3D understanding because it removes explicit intermediate representations and proprietary model calls while supporting multiple 3D input formats with one set of weights.

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TRADITIONAL MULTI-STAGE PIPELINEPoint CloudPoint CloudObject DetectionObject DetectionScene Graph GenerationScene GraphGenerationGRAPHWRIT3R (END-TO-END)encodedfeaturesfused voxelgridstructuredoutputPoint Cloud / GaussiansPoint Cloud /GaussiansVoxel Fusion: per-voxel contrastive lossVoxel Fusionper-voxelcontrastive lossLLM Decoder: generates JSONLLM Decodergenerates JSONJSON Scene GraphJSON SceneGraphContrastive alignment loss trains fusion without ground-truth annotations.
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