CVOct 13, 2025

SNAP: Towards Segmenting Anything in Any Point Cloud

arXiv:2510.11565v1h-index: 13
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This provides a practical tool for scalable 3D annotation by addressing limitations in domain-specific and interaction-restricted approaches.

The paper tackles the problem of interactive 3D point cloud segmentation by developing SNAP, a unified model that supports both point-based and text-based prompts across diverse domains, achieving state-of-the-art performance on 8 out of 9 zero-shot benchmarks for spatial-prompted segmentation and competitive results on all 5 text-prompted benchmarks.

Interactive 3D point cloud segmentation enables efficient annotation of complex 3D scenes through user-guided prompts. However, current approaches are typically restricted in scope to a single domain (indoor or outdoor), and to a single form of user interaction (either spatial clicks or textual prompts). Moreover, training on multiple datasets often leads to negative transfer, resulting in domain-specific tools that lack generalizability. To address these limitations, we present \textbf{SNAP} (\textbf{S}egment a\textbf{N}ything in \textbf{A}ny \textbf{P}oint cloud), a unified model for interactive 3D segmentation that supports both point-based and text-based prompts across diverse domains. Our approach achieves cross-domain generalizability by training on 7 datasets spanning indoor, outdoor, and aerial environments, while employing domain-adaptive normalization to prevent negative transfer. For text-prompted segmentation, we automatically generate mask proposals without human intervention and match them against CLIP embeddings of textual queries, enabling both panoptic and open-vocabulary segmentation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that SNAP consistently delivers high-quality segmentation results. We achieve state-of-the-art performance on 8 out of 9 zero-shot benchmarks for spatial-prompted segmentation and demonstrate competitive results on all 5 text-prompted benchmarks. These results show that a unified model can match or exceed specialized domain-specific approaches, providing a practical tool for scalable 3D annotation. Project page is at, https://neu-vi.github.io/SNAP/

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