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We propose a novel framework to learn 3D point cloud semantics from 2D multi-view image observations containing pose error. On the one hand, directly learning from the massive, unstructured and unordered 3D point cloud is computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Yuhang He , Lin Chen , Junkun Xie , Long Chen

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in 3D scene understanding. Its progress is constrained by the high cost and time required for dense 3D annotations, making labeled samples difficult to obtain. Beyond annotation scarcity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Thenukan Pathmanathan , Kanchan Keisham , Thangarajah Akilan

This technical report presents the 1st place winning solution for the Waymo Open Dataset 3D semantic segmentation challenge 2022. Our network, termed LidarMultiNet, unifies the major LiDAR perception tasks such as 3D semantic segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Dongqiangzi Ye , Weijia Chen , Zixiang Zhou , Yufei Xie , Yu Wang , Panqu Wang , Hassan Foroosh

State-of-the-art methods for large-scale driving-scene LiDAR semantic segmentation often project and process the point clouds in the 2D space. The projection methods includes spherical projection, bird-eye view projection, etc. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Xiao Song , Yuexin Ma , Zhe Wang , Hongsheng Li , Dahua Lin

Scene understanding based on LiDAR point cloud is an essential task for autonomous cars to drive safely, which often employs spherical projection to map 3D point cloud into multi-channel 2D images for semantic segmentation. Most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Aoran Xiao , Xiaofei Yang , Shijian Lu , Dayan Guan , Jiaxing Huang

The need for fine-grained perception in autonomous driving systems has resulted in recently increased research on online semantic segmentation of single-scan LiDAR. Despite the emerging datasets and technological advancements, it remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Yang Zhang , Zixiang Zhou , Philip David , Xiangyu Yue , Zerong Xi , Boqing Gong , Hassan Foroosh

Point clouds analysis has grasped researchers' eyes in recent years, while 3D semantic segmentation remains a problem. Most deep point clouds models directly conduct learning on 3D point clouds, which will suffer from the severe sparsity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Zhenhong Zou , Yizhe Li

Temporal semantic scene understanding is critical for self-driving cars or robots operating in dynamic environments. In this paper, we propose 4D panoptic LiDAR segmentation to assign a semantic class and a temporally-consistent instance ID…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Mehmet Aygün , Aljoša Ošep , Mark Weber , Maxim Maximov , Cyrill Stachniss , Jens Behley , Laura Leal-Taixé

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds is an important task in autonomous driving. However, training deep models via conventional supervised methods requires large datasets which are costly to label. It is critical to have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Minghua Liu , Yin Zhou , Charles R. Qi , Boqing Gong , Hao Su , Dragomir Anguelov

With the rapid advances of autonomous driving, it becomes critical to equip its sensing system with more holistic 3D perception. However, existing works focus on parsing either the objects (e.g. cars and pedestrians) or scenes (e.g. trees…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Fangzhou Hong , Hui Zhou , Xinge Zhu , Hongsheng Li , Ziwei Liu

4D LiDAR semantic segmentation, also referred to as multi-scan semantic segmentation, plays a crucial role in enhancing the environmental understanding capabilities of autonomous vehicles or robots. It classifies the semantic category of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Neng Wang , Ruibin Guo , Chenghao Shi , Ziyue Wang , Hui Zhang , Huimin Lu , Zhiqiang Zheng , Xieyuanli Chen

In this paper we introduce a novel way to predict semantic information from sparse, single-shot LiDAR measurements in the context of autonomous driving. In particular, we fuse learned features from complementary representations. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-03 Frank Bieder , Maximilian Link , Simon Romanski , Haohao Hu , Christoph Stiller

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds is important in urban remote sensing for understanding real-world street environments. This task, by projecting LiDAR point clouds and 3D semantic labels as sparse maps, can be reformulated as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaoyu Dong , Tiankui Xian , Wanshui Gan , Naoto Yokoya

LiDAR semantic segmentation models are typically trained from random initialization as universal pre-training is hindered by the lack of large, diverse datasets. Moreover, most point cloud segmentation architectures incorporate custom…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-06 Julia Hindel , Rohit Mohan , Jelena Bratulic , Daniele Cattaneo , Thomas Brox , Abhinav Valada

Semantic segmentation is a fundamental task for agricultural robots to understand the surrounding environments in natural orchards. The recent development of the LiDAR techniques enables the robot to acquire accurate range measurements of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-04 Hanwen Kang , Xing Wang

LiDAR scanning for surveying applications acquire measurements over wide areas and long distances, which produces large-scale 3D point clouds with significant local density variations. While existing 3D semantic segmentation models conduct…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ryan Faulkner , Luke Haub , Simon Ratcliffe , Ian Reid , Tat-Jun Chin

Point cloud segmentation is a fundamental visual understanding task in 3D vision. A fully supervised point cloud segmentation network often requires a large amount of data with point-wise annotations, which is expensive to obtain. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-29 Xiaoyu Chen , Chi Zhang , Guosheng Lin , Jing Han

Outdoor scene completion is a challenging issue in 3D scene understanding, which plays an important role in intelligent robotics and autonomous driving. Due to the sparsity of LiDAR acquisition, it is far more complex for 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-24 Xuemeng Yang , Hao Zou , Xin Kong , Tianxin Huang , Yong Liu , Wanlong Li , Feng Wen , Hongbo Zhang

3D semantic segmentation plays a critical role in urban modelling, enabling detailed understanding and mapping of city environments. In this paper, we introduce Turin3D: a new aerial LiDAR dataset for point cloud semantic segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Luca Barco , Giacomo Blanco , Gaetano Chiriaco , Alessia Intini , Luigi La Riccia , Vittorio Scolamiero , Piero Boccardo , Paolo Garza , Fabrizio Dominici

3D point cloud semantic segmentation is a challenging topic in the computer vision field. Most of the existing methods in literature require a large amount of fully labeled training data, but it is extremely time-consuming to obtain these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Shuang Deng , Qiulei Dong , Bo Liu , Zhanyi Hu