CLAR: Learning 3D Representations for Robotic Manipulation by Fusing Masked Reconstruction with Multi-Level Contrastive Alignment
The spatial information inherent in 3D point clouds is crucial for robotic manipulation. However, existing 3D pre-training methods face a fundamental trade-off: Masked Autoencoding (MAE) excels at capturing spatial-geometric features but lacks semantics, whereas contrastive learning, while able to d…