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Point2Primitive: CAD Reconstruction from Point Cloud by Direct Primitive Prediction

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-11-18 v3

Abstract

Recovering CAD models from point clouds requires reconstructing their topology and sketch-based extrusion primitives. A dominant paradigm for representing sketches involves implicit neural representations such as Signed Distance Fields (SDFs). However, this indirect approach inherently struggles with precision, leading to unintended curved edges and models that are difficult to edit. In this paper, we propose Point2Primitive, a framework that learns to directly predict the explicit, parametric primitives of CAD models. Our method treats sketch reconstruction as a set prediction problem, employing a improved transformer-based decoder with explicit position queries to directly detect and predict the fundamental sketch curves (i.e., type and parameter) from the point cloud. Instead of approximating a continuous field, we formulate curve parameters as explicit position queries, which are optimized autoregressively to achieve high accuracy. The overall topology is rebuilt via extrusion segmentation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that this direct prediction paradigm significantly outperforms implicit methods in both primitive accuracy and overall geometric fidelity.

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@article{arxiv.2505.02043,
  title  = {Point2Primitive: CAD Reconstruction from Point Cloud by Direct Primitive Prediction},
  author = {Xinzhu Ma and Cheng Wang and Chen Tang and Bin Wang and Shixiang Tang and Yuan Meng and Yunhong Wang and Di Huang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.02043},
  year   = {2025}
}
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