3D MeanFlow: One-Step Point Cloud Completion and Generation via Average-Velocity Transport
Haowen Zhong, Jiujun Cheng, Haowen Wang, Chao Wei, Lu Yang, Qichao Mao, Shangce Gao
Abstract
Point cloud completion and generation are important across many 3D tasks, where both fidelity and sampling efficiency matter. Prevailing high-fidelity approaches rely on long sampling schedules, which incur substantial inference latency. Few-step alternatives typically use rectification or distillation, leading to multi-stage training pipelines and potential quality trade-offs. We present 3D MeanFlow (3DMF), a distillation-free model that performs one-step average-velocity transport for point cloud completion and generation. We optimize an instantaneous-average consistency objective and impose a shape-level constraint to stabilize training. Additionally, we introduce PointPlug, integrating completion into 3D object detectors and evaluating its impact. PointPlug uses adaptive selection that balances benefit and latency. Across standard benchmarks, 3DMF achieves one-step sampling with an order-of-magnitude speedup while maintaining competitive fidelity. On nuScenes and KITTI, inserting PointPlug improves all evaluated detectors under comparable settings.
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