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Topology-Preserving Polygon Augmentation for Segmentation in Structured Visual Domains

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2026-05-18 v4 Artificial Intelligence Machine Learning

Abstract

Geometric data augmentation is widely used in segmentation workflows, but polygon annotations are often assumed to remain valid after transformation. This assumption can fail in structured domains such as architectural floorplan analysis, where a region may contain an interior void encoded as part of a single ordered polygon chain. Cropping or clipping can remove bridge vertices in this chain, causing one semantic region to split into disconnected components. We propose a lightweight topology-preserving augmentation strategy that repairs missing adjacency relations in index space while preserving the original vertex order. The method adds minimal overhead and can be integrated into existing preprocessing workflows. Experiments show that the proposed approach achieves near-perfect Cyclic Adjacency Preservation (CAP) across common geometric transformations and improves annotation consistency in polygon-based segmentation.

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@article{arxiv.2603.14764,
  title  = {Topology-Preserving Polygon Augmentation for Segmentation in Structured Visual Domains},
  author = {Sudip Laudari and Sang Hun Baek},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.14764},
  year   = {2026}
}

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10 pages, 6 figures

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