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PointZero: 3D Point Track Completion for Learning Transferable 3D Dynamics

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TL;DR - PointZero learns transferable 3D dynamics by completing point trajectories from RGB-D observations and sparse partial tracks, avoiding the need for robot action labels during pre-training. This enables broader data use and improves downstream 3D prediction and robot manipulation.

  • Pre-training uses 2.9 million synthetic frames spanning deformable, articulated, and rigid objects.
  • A transformer predicts future 3D trajectories for all observed points from a single RGB-D frame and sparse tracks.
  • After action-conditioned fine-tuning, PointZero outperforms baselines on the PGND 3D dynamics benchmark.
  • For imitation learning, it matches or exceeds baselines on 6 of 7 simulated and real-world manipulation tasks.

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PointZero: 3D Point Track Completion for Learning Transferable 3D Dynamics

arXiv cs.CV Bardienus P. Duisterhof, Kaifeng Zhang, Adam Hung, Bowen Wen, Stan Birchfield, Yunzhu Li, Deva Ramanan, Jeffrey Ichnowski 2026-09-16 arXiv:2609.19142
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TL;DR - PointZero learns transferable 3D dynamics by completing point trajectories from RGB-D observations and sparse partial tracks, avoiding the need for robot action labels during pre-training. This enables broader data use and improves downstream 3D prediction and robot manipulation.

  • Pre-training uses 2.9 million synthetic frames spanning deformable, articulated, and rigid objects.
  • A transformer predicts future 3D trajectories for all observed points from a single RGB-D frame and sparse tracks.
  • After action-conditioned fine-tuning, PointZero outperforms baselines on the PGND 3D dynamics benchmark.
  • For imitation learning, it matches or exceeds baselines on 6 of 7 simulated and real-world manipulation tasks.
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