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When Point Clouds Outperform Pixels: Rethinking Zero-Shot Multimodal Anomaly Detection

arXiv · AI, language, vision and robotics · article · Sep 22, 2026 · UTC

Zero-shot multimodal anomaly detection commonly assumes that RGB and point cloud modalities are equally reliable and can contribute uniformly to anomaly localization. We challenge this assumption. Using a set of recently proposed stringent metrics that penalize false anomaly responses in normal regions, we find that point clouds are substantially more reliable than RGB under zero-shot category shift. Motivated by this observation, we propose WOOPS (\textbf{W}hen P\textbf{o}int Cl\textbf{o}uds Out\textbf{p}erform Pixel\textbf{s}), a reliability-aware zero-shot multimodal anomaly detection frame

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