# PointCMC: Cross-Modal Multi-Scale Correspondences Learning for Point Cloud Understanding

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.12032 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2211.12032/

## Key facts

- Cited by 5 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 58 of its 79 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 22 Nov 2022.

## Builds on (most cited first, 30 of 58)

- [Attention Is All You Need](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.03762/) (2017)
- [Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03385/) (2015)
- [Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1412.6980/) (2014)
- [Learning Transferable Visual Models From Natural Language Supervision](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.00020/) (2021)
- [PyTorch: An Imperative Style, High-Performance Deep Learning Library](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1912.01703/) (2019)
- [Swin Transformer: Hierarchical Vision Transformer using Shifted Windows](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2103.14030/) (2021)
- [A Simple Framework for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2002.05709/) (2020)
- [Representation Learning with Contrastive Predictive Coding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1807.03748/) (2018)
- [Momentum Contrast for Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1911.05722/) (2019)
- [PointNet: Deep Learning on Point Sets for 3D Classification and Segmentation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.00593/) (2016)
- [SGDR: Stochastic Gradient Descent with Warm Restarts](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1608.03983/) (2016)
- [Bootstrap your own latent: A new approach to self-supervised Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2006.07733/) (2020)
- [PointNet++: Deep Hierarchical Feature Learning on Point Sets in a Metric Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1706.02413/) (2017)
- [ShapeNet: An Information-Rich 3D Model Repository](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1512.03012/) (2015)
- [Learning to Prompt for Vision-Language Models](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2109.01134/) (2021)
- [Dynamic Graph CNN for Learning on Point Clouds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.07829/) (2018)
- [KPConv: Flexible and Deformable Convolution for Point Clouds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.08889/) (2019)
- [Unsupervised Visual Representation Learning by Context Prediction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1505.05192/) (2015)
- [A Point Set Generation Network for 3D Object Reconstruction from a Single Image](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1612.00603/) (2016)
- [PointCNN: Convolution On X-Transformed Points](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1801.07791/) (2018)
- [Learning Representations by Maximizing Mutual Information Across Views](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1906.00910/) (2019)
- [PointConv: Deep Convolutional Networks on 3D Point Clouds](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1811.07246/) (2018)
- [Learning a Probabilistic Latent Space of Object Shapes via 3D Generative-Adversarial Modeling](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1610.07584/) (2016)
- [Revisiting Point Cloud Classification: A New Benchmark Dataset and Classification Model on Real-World Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1908.04616/) (2019)
- [PointContrast: Unsupervised Pre-training for 3D Point Cloud Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2007.10985/) (2020)
- [Joint 2D-3D-Semantic Data for Indoor Scene Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1702.01105/) (2017)
- [Relation-Shape Convolutional Neural Network for Point Cloud Analysis](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1904.07601/) (2019)
- [DISN: Deep Implicit Surface Network for High-quality Single-view 3D Reconstruction](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1905.10711/) (2019)
- [SpiderCNN: Deep Learning on Point Sets with Parameterized Convolutional Filters](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1803.11527/) (2018)
- [Volumetric and Multi-View CNNs for Object Classification on 3D Data](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1604.03265/) (2016)

## Built on by (most cited first, 5 of 5)

- [Self-supervised Learning for Pre-Training 3D Point Clouds: A Survey](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2305.04691/) (2023)
- [Diffusion Models are Open-World Affordance Learners: Leveraging Generative Priors for 3D Affordance Learning](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2508.01651/) (2025)
- [Point Clouds Are Specialized Images: A Knowledge Transfer Approach for 3D Understanding](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2307.15569/) (2023)
- [Token Adaptation via Side Graph Convolution for Efficient Fine-tuning of 3D Point Cloud Transformers](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2502.14142/) (2025)
- [x2-Fusion: Cross-Modality and Cross-Dimension Flow Estimation in Event Edge Space](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2603.16671/) (2026)

## Abstract (arXiv)

Some self-supervised cross-modal learning approaches have recently demonstrated the potential of image signals for enhancing point cloud representation. However, it remains a question on how to directly model cross-modal local and global correspondences in a self-supervised fashion. To solve it, we proposed PointCMC, a novel cross-modal method to model multi-scale correspondences across modalities for self-supervised point cloud representation learning. In particular, PointCMC is composed of: (1) a local-to-local (L2L) module that learns local correspondences through optimized cross-modal local geometric features, (2) a local-to-global (L2G) module that aims to learn the correspondences between local and global features across modalities via local-global discrimination, and (3) a global-to-global (G2G) module, which leverages auxiliary global contrastive loss between the point cloud and image to learn high-level semantic correspondences. Extensive experiment results show that our approach outperforms existing state-of-the-art methods in various downstream tasks such as 3D object classification and segmentation. Code will be made publicly available upon acceptance.