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arxiv: 2512.09373 · v2 · submitted 2025-12-10 · 💻 cs.CV

FUSER: Feed-Forward MUltiview 3D Registration Transformer and SE(3)^N Diffusion Refinement

Haobo Jiang , Jin Xie , Jian Yang , Liang Yu , Jianmin Zheng This is my paper

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A feed-forward transformer registers multiple 3D point clouds by jointly processing them in a unified latent space to predict global poses directly.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper proposes FUSER as the first feed-forward multiview registration transformer. It jointly processes all point cloud scans in a compact latent space to directly predict global poses, skipping the conventional pairwise matching and pose graph synchronization. This is achieved by encoding scans into superpoint features with a sparse 3D CNN and using Geometric Alternating Attention for cross-view reasoning, with 2D attention priors transferred from foundation models. A diffusion refinement stage in SE(3)^N space then corrects the predictions for higher accuracy.

Core claim

FUSER encodes each scan into low-resolution superpoint features via a sparse 3D CNN that preserves absolute translation cues, and performs efficient intra- and inter-scan reasoning through a Geometric Alternating Attention module to directly predict global poses without any pairwise estimation. Building on this, FUSER-DF introduces an SE(3)^N diffusion refinement framework where FUSER serves as a surrogate model to denoise poses in the joint space.

What carries the argument

Geometric Alternating Attention module, which alternates attention within and across scans on the superpoint features to capture geometric consistency in the unified latent space.

If this is right

  • Registration accuracy improves because holistic geometric constraints are applied directly instead of relying on potentially inconsistent pairwise alignments.
  • Computational cost decreases significantly for large numbers of views since pairwise computations are eliminated.
  • The method enables end-to-end training of multiview registration as a single feed-forward network.
  • Diffusion refinement provides a way to model uncertainty and correct errors in the initial pose estimates.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • If the joint latent space approach holds, it could extend to other tasks like simultaneous localization and mapping with multiple sensors.
  • Transferring 2D priors to 3D attention suggests similar benefits in other cross-modal 3D tasks.
  • Real-time performance in dynamic environments becomes feasible due to the feed-forward nature.

Load-bearing premise

Low-resolution superpoint features extracted by a sparse 3D CNN preserve enough absolute translation information to support accurate global pose prediction across all views simultaneously.

What would settle it

Measuring registration error on benchmark datasets after ablating the translation-preserving aspects of the superpoint encoding; a large increase in error would falsify the claim that these features suffice for direct global prediction.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2512.09373 by Haobo Jiang, Jianmin Zheng, Jian Yang, Jin Xie, Liang Yu.

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Figure 1. Figure 1: Comparison of paradigms. Conventional multiview reg [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p001_1.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Architecture of FUSER. It encodes unordered scans into [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 3. Figure 3: Pipeline of prior-aware SE(3)N denoising process. It integrates the prior pose estimates (Tˆ 1, ..., Tˆ N ) of FUSER into the denoising process, where FUSER, as the surrogate registra￾tion model, estimates the residual poses (Tˆ t→0 1 , ..., Tˆ t→0 N ) = FUSER(St) to support progressive denoising over SE(3)N space. optimal poses T0 1:N and the prior poses Tˆ 1:N , the pos￾terior can naturally provide a sup… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: SE(3)N diffusion refinement in FUSER-DF visually re￾fines FUSER’s pose estimation, yielding smoother surfaces. work on the 3DMatch dataset [18], a widely used indoor RGB-D dataset. Following the eight testing scenes in [54], we conduct multiview alignment under a more realistic and challenging setup. Unlike prior works that fuse 50 consec￾utive frames into GT-aligned fragments via TSDF integra￾tion (an ope… view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: Qualitative comparison: FUSER surpasses SOTA [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p008_5.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Network architecture of absolute geometric encoder. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png] view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Registration of multiview point clouds conventionally relies on extensive pairwise matching to build a pose graph for global synchronization, which is computationally expensive and inherently ill-posed without holistic geometric constraints. This paper proposes FUSER, the first feed-forward multiview registration transformer that jointly processes all scans in a unified, compact latent space to directly predict global poses without any pairwise estimation. To maintain tractability, FUSER encodes each scan into low-resolution superpoint features via a sparse 3D CNN that preserves absolute translation cues, and performs efficient intra- and inter-scan reasoning through a Geometric Alternating Attention module. Particularly, we transfer 2D attention priors from off-the-shelf foundation models to enhance 3D feature interaction and geometric consistency. Building upon FUSER, we further introduce FUSER-DF, an SE(3)$^N$ diffusion refinement framework to correct FUSER's estimates via denoising in the joint SE(3)$^N$ space. FUSER acts as a surrogate multiview registration model to construct the denoiser, and a prior-conditioned SE(3)$^N$ variational lower bound is derived for denoising supervision. Extensive experiments on 3DMatch, ScanNet and ArkitScenes demonstrate that our approach achieves the superior registration accuracy and outstanding computational efficiency.

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Referee Report

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Summary. The manuscript proposes FUSER, the first feed-forward multiview 3D registration transformer that jointly encodes all input scans into a unified compact latent space of low-resolution superpoint features via per-scan sparse 3D CNNs, applies Geometric Alternating Attention (with transferred 2D foundation-model priors) for intra- and inter-scan reasoning, and directly regresses globally consistent SE(3) poses without any pairwise matching or pose-graph optimization. It further introduces FUSER-DF, an SE(3)^N diffusion refinement stage that treats the feed-forward output as a surrogate model and optimizes a prior-conditioned variational lower bound. Experiments on 3DMatch, ScanNet, and ArkitScenes are reported to demonstrate superior registration accuracy and computational efficiency.

Significance. If the central architectural claim holds and the low-resolution superpoint features indeed suffice for direct global regression, the work would constitute a meaningful advance by replacing expensive pairwise graph synchronization with a single forward pass, offering substantial gains in speed and scalability for large-scale 3D reconstruction. The combination of attention transfer from 2D models and joint SE(3)^N diffusion refinement is technically novel and could influence subsequent feed-forward 3D vision pipelines.

major comments (2)
  1. [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (superpoint encoding): the central claim that independent per-scan sparse 3D CNNs on low-resolution superpoints preserve sufficient absolute translation cues for direct joint SE(3) regression is load-bearing for the 'no pairwise estimation' contribution, yet the manuscript provides no ablation on voxel resolution, no analysis of translation-signal retention after downsampling, and no comparison against a pairwise baseline that isolates this assumption.
  2. [§4] §4 (Geometric Alternating Attention): the description of intra- and inter-scan attention does not specify how the module enforces global consistency across all views in a single pass; without an explicit consistency loss or proof that the attention mechanism cannot produce inconsistent poses, the 'globally consistent' claim remains under-supported.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] Abstract: quantitative metrics (recall, RMSE, runtime) and ablation tables are referenced but not shown; adding at least the headline numbers would strengthen the summary.
  2. [§5] Notation: the SE(3)^N diffusion formulation uses an ad-hoc prior-conditioned variational bound; a brief derivation or reference to the exact ELBO terms would improve clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive comments. We address each major comment below and outline the revisions we will make to strengthen the manuscript.

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  1. Referee: [Abstract and §3] Abstract and §3 (superpoint encoding): the central claim that independent per-scan sparse 3D CNNs on low-resolution superpoints preserve sufficient absolute translation cues for direct joint SE(3) regression is load-bearing for the 'no pairwise estimation' contribution, yet the manuscript provides no ablation on voxel resolution, no analysis of translation-signal retention after downsampling, and no comparison against a pairwise baseline that isolates this assumption.

    Authors: We agree that empirical validation of this assumption is important. In the revised version, we will add an ablation study varying the voxel resolution and superpoint downsampling factor, measuring the impact on absolute translation accuracy. We will also include a comparison with a pairwise registration baseline that uses the same superpoint features but performs separate pairwise estimations followed by graph optimization. This will isolate the benefit of the joint feed-forward approach. The sparse 3D CNN preserves translation cues because it operates directly on the input coordinates without relative normalization, as the features retain positional encoding from the original scan positions. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [§4] §4 (Geometric Alternating Attention): the description of intra- and inter-scan attention does not specify how the module enforces global consistency across all views in a single pass; without an explicit consistency loss or proof that the attention mechanism cannot produce inconsistent poses, the 'globally consistent' claim remains under-supported.

    Authors: The joint processing in a single unified latent space allows the inter-scan attention to exchange information across all views simultaneously, leading to globally consistent pose predictions through the shared feature interactions. To better support this, we will revise §4 to include a detailed description of the attention flow and how it promotes consistency. Additionally, we will add empirical measurements of pose consistency (such as the maximum deviation in relative poses) in the experiments. We do not introduce an explicit consistency loss because the model is trained end-to-end with direct supervision on the global SE(3) poses from ground truth, which implicitly enforces consistency. revision: partial

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No significant circularity; architectural and empirical contribution with independent validation

full rationale

The paper introduces FUSER as a feed-forward transformer architecture that encodes multiview scans via sparse 3D CNN into superpoint features, applies Geometric Alternating Attention for joint pose prediction, and optionally refines via SE(3)^N diffusion. No equations or derivations reduce the claimed global registration performance to quantities defined by the model's own fitted parameters or self-referential inputs. The low-resolution feature preservation assumption is presented as an empirical design choice rather than a definitional tautology, and the diffusion stage is explicitly corrective. Validation on 3DMatch, ScanNet, and ArkitScenes provides external benchmarks. This is a standard non-circular finding for an architectural paper whose central claims rest on implementation and testing rather than closed-form reduction to inputs.

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