SGMatch: Semantic-Guided Non-Rigid Shape Matching with Flow Regularization

Abstract

Establishing accurate point-to-point correspondences between non-rigid 3D shapes remains a critical challenge, particularly under non-isometric deformations and topological noise. Existing functional map pipelines suffer from ambiguities that geometric descriptors alone cannot resolve, and spatial inconsistencies inherent in the projection of truncated spectral bases to dense pointwise correspondences. In this paper, we introduce SGMatch, a learning-based framework that couples 3D-lifted semantic cues with trajectory-level feature transport regularization. Specifically, we design a Semantic-Guided Local Cross-Attention module that integrates semantic features from vision foundation models into geometric descriptors while preserving local structural continuity. Furthermore, we adapt conditional flow matching as a time-conditioned feature transport regularizer that promotes spatially coherent point-wise recovery. Experimental results on multiple benchmarks demonstrate that SGMatch achieves competitive performance across near-isometric settings and consistent improvements under non-isometric deformations and topological noise.