M2P-AD: Memory-to-Prototype Learning with Boundary-aware Score Refinement for 3D Anomaly Detection

3D anomaly detection has recently emerged as an important research topic in computer vision. Although existing methods have achieved high performance, excessive anomaly responses in normal regions and false positives near object boundaries remain unresolved challenges. To address these challenges, we propose a novel 3D anomaly detection model, Memory-to-Prototype Anomaly Detection (M2P-AD), which effectively models the distribution of normal features while suppressing excessive anomaly scores in normal regions and false positives near object boundaries. Specifically, we introduce a Memory-to-Prototype (M2P) module that learns representative prototypes from normal feature embeddings to preserve important structural information of objects. In addition, a Boundary extraction (BE) module is integrated to identify object boundaries, and a Boundary-aware score refinement (BSR) strategy is applied to recalibrate anomaly scores by incorporating boundary characteristics. The proposed method is evaluated on Real3D-AD, Anomaly-ShapeNet, and MulSen-AD, achieving state-of-the-art performance. Qualitative results demonstrate that excessive anomaly scores in normal regions are reduced and false positives near object boundaries are suppressed, resulting in more accurate and stable anomaly localization. The results indicate that the proposed approach enables more reliable 3D anomaly detection and provides a robust solution applicable to real-world industrial environments.