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3D semantic segmentation is one of the key tasks for autonomous driving system. Recently, deep learning models for 3D semantic segmentation task have been widely researched, but they usually require large amounts of training data. However,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-02-24 Yancheng Pan , Biao Gao , Jilin Mei , Sibo Geng , Chengkun Li , Huijing Zhao

In this paper, we present a deep learning architecture which addresses the problem of 3D semantic segmentation of unstructured point clouds. Compared to previous work, we introduce grouping techniques which define point neighborhoods in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-20 Francis Engelmann , Theodora Kontogianni , Jonas Schult , Bastian Leibe

3D point cloud analysis has drawn a lot of research attention due to its wide applications. However, collecting massive labelled 3D point cloud data is both time-consuming and labor-intensive. This calls for data-efficient learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-23 Fayao Liu , Guosheng Lin , Chuan-Sheng Foo , Chaitanya K. Joshi , Jie Lin

3D point cloud segmentation has a wide range of applications in areas such as autonomous driving, augmented reality, virtual reality and digital twins. The point cloud data collected in real scenes often contain small objects and categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chade Li , Pengju Zhang , Jiaming Zhang , Yihong Wu

Point cloud stands as the most widely adopted format for representing 3D shapes and scenes due to its simplicity and geometric fidelity. However, its inherent unordered and irregular nature, exacerbated by sensor noise and occlusions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Minhas Kamal , Hiranya Garbha Kumar , Balakrishnan Prabhakaran

3D point cloud segmentation is an important function that helps robots understand the layout of their surrounding environment and perform tasks such as grasping objects, avoiding obstacles, and finding landmarks. Current segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-17 Jingdao Chen , Zsolt Kira , Yong K. Cho

Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) for point clouds have substantially improved 3D scene understanding without human annotations. Existing approaches emphasize semantic awareness by enforcing feature consistency across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Bin Yang , Mohamed Abdelsamad , Miao Zhang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Given the prominence of current 3D sensors, a fine-grained analysis on the basic point cloud data is worthy of further investigation. Particularly, real point cloud scenes can intuitively capture complex surroundings in the real world, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

Autonomous vehicles need to have a semantic understanding of the three-dimensional world around them in order to reason about their environment. State of the art methods use deep neural networks to predict semantic classes for each point in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Larissa T. Triess , David Peter , Christoph B. Rist , J. Marius Zöllner

Point cloud analysis (such as 3D segmentation and detection) is a challenging task, because of not only the irregular geometries of many millions of unordered points, but also the great variations caused by depth, viewpoint, occlusion, etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-28 Tuo Feng , Wenguan Wang , Xiaohan Wang , Yi Yang , Qinghua Zheng

LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Simone Mosco , Daniel Fusaro , Wanmeng Li , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

Point cloud analysis has a wide range of applications in many areas such as computer vision, robotic manipulation, and autonomous driving. While deep learning has achieved remarkable success on image-based tasks, there are many unique…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Sushmita Sarker , Prithul Sarker , Gunner Stone , Ryan Gorman , Alireza Tavakkoli , George Bebis , Javad Sattarvand

Unsupervised point cloud segmentation is critical for embodied artificial intelligence and autonomous driving, as it mitigates the prohibitive cost of dense point-level annotations required by fully supervised methods. While integrating 2D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Yixiao Song , Qingyong Li , Wen Wang , Zhicheng Yan

Object detection from 3D point clouds remains a challenging task, though recent studies pushed the envelope with the deep learning techniques. Owing to the severe spatial occlusion and inherent variance of point density with the distance to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Liang Du , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiao Tan , Jianfeng Feng , Zhenbo Xu , Errui Ding , Shilei Wen

LIDAR semantic segmentation, which assigns a semantic label to each 3D point measured by the LIDAR, is becoming an essential task for many robotic applications such as autonomous driving. Fast and efficient semantic segmentation methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-28 Iñigo Alonso , Luis Riazuelo , Luis Montesano , Ana C. Murillo

We develop a novel learning scheme named Self-Prediction for 3D instance and semantic segmentation of point clouds. Distinct from most existing methods that focus on designing convolutional operators, our method designs a new learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Jinxian Liu , Minghui Yu , Bingbing Ni , Ye Chen

Understanding 3D point cloud models for learning purposes has become an imperative challenge for real-world identification such as autonomous driving systems. A wide variety of solutions using deep learning have been proposed for point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , Cheng Chen , Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , M. Hadi Amini , Beshoy Morkos , Hamid R. Arabnia

Feature matching is a fundamental problem in computer vision with wide-ranging applications, including simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), image stitching, and 3D reconstruction. While recent advances in deep learning have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Ronald Nap , Andy Xiao

Three-dimensional (3D) object recognition is crucial for intelligent autonomous agents such as autonomous vehicles and robots alike to operate effectively in unstructured environments. Most state-of-art approaches rely on relatively dense…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-05-10 Prajval Kumar Murali , Cong Wang , Ravinder Dahiya , Mohsen Kaboli

Object detection and tracking are vital and fundamental tasks for autonomous driving, aiming at identifying and locating objects from those predefined categories in a scene. 3D point cloud learning has been attracting more and more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Yang Peng