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SAM4D: Segment Anything in Camera and LiDAR Streams

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-06-27 v1 Robotics

Abstract

We present SAM4D, a multi-modal and temporal foundation model designed for promptable segmentation across camera and LiDAR streams. Unified Multi-modal Positional Encoding (UMPE) is introduced to align camera and LiDAR features in a shared 3D space, enabling seamless cross-modal prompting and interaction. Additionally, we propose Motion-aware Cross-modal Memory Attention (MCMA), which leverages ego-motion compensation to enhance temporal consistency and long-horizon feature retrieval, ensuring robust segmentation across dynamically changing autonomous driving scenes. To avoid annotation bottlenecks, we develop a multi-modal automated data engine that synergizes VFM-driven video masklets, spatiotemporal 4D reconstruction, and cross-modal masklet fusion. This framework generates camera-LiDAR aligned pseudo-labels at a speed orders of magnitude faster than human annotation while preserving VFM-derived semantic fidelity in point cloud representations. We conduct extensive experiments on the constructed Waymo-4DSeg, which demonstrate the powerful cross-modal segmentation ability and great potential in data annotation of proposed SAM4D.

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@article{arxiv.2506.21547,
  title  = {SAM4D: Segment Anything in Camera and LiDAR Streams},
  author = {Jianyun Xu and Song Wang and Ziqian Ni and Chunyong Hu and Sheng Yang and Jianke Zhu and Qiang Li},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.21547},
  year   = {2025}
}

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Accepted by ICCV2025, Project Page: https://SAM4D-Project.github.io

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