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Pre-training is crucial in 3D-related fields such as autonomous driving where point cloud annotation is costly and challenging. Many recent studies on point cloud pre-training, however, have overlooked the issue of incompleteness, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Hao Yang , Haiyang Wang , Di Dai , Liwei Wang

The ability to detect and segment moving objects in a scene is essential for building consistent maps, making future state predictions, avoiding collisions, and planning. In this paper, we address the problem of moving object segmentation…

Exploiting past 3D LiDAR scans to predict future point clouds is a promising method for autonomous mobile systems to realize foresighted state estimation, collision avoidance, and planning. In this paper, we address the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Benedikt Mersch , Xieyuanli Chen , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

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

Efficient data utilization is crucial for advancing 3D scene understanding in autonomous driving, where reliance on heavily human-annotated LiDAR point clouds challenges fully supervised methods. Addressing this, our study extends into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Lingdong Kong , Xiang Xu , Jiawei Ren , Wenwei Zhang , Liang Pan , Kai Chen , Wei Tsang Ooi , Ziwei Liu

The ambiguity at the boundaries of different semantic classes in point cloud semantic segmentation often leads to incorrect decisions in intelligent perception systems, such as autonomous driving. Hence, accurate delineation of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Jiale Chen , Fei Xia , Jianliang Mao , Haoping Wang , Chuanlin Zhang

The rapid progress in 3D scene understanding has come with growing demand for data; however, collecting and annotating 3D scenes (e.g. point clouds) are notoriously hard. For example, the number of scenes (e.g. indoor rooms) that can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Ji Hou , Benjamin Graham , Matthias Nießner , Saining Xie

Manually annotating complex scene point cloud datasets is both costly and error-prone. To reduce the reliance on labeled data, a new model called SnapshotNet is proposed as a self-supervised feature learning approach, which directly works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-14 Xingye Li , Ling Zhang , Zhigang Zhu

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 case study, we present a data-efficient point cloud segmentation pipeline and training framework for robust segmentation of unimproved roads and seven other classes. Our method employs a two-stage training framework: first, a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-29 Andrew Yarovoi , Christopher R. Valenta

This paper introduces a novel self-supervised learning framework for enhancing 3D perception in autonomous driving scenes. Specifically, our approach, namely NCLR, focuses on 2D-3D neural calibration, a novel pretext task that estimates the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Yifan Zhang , Junhui Hou , Siyu Ren , Jinjian Wu , Yixuan Yuan , Guangming Shi

We propose LU-Net -- for LiDAR U-Net, a new method for the semantic segmentation of a 3D LiDAR point cloud. Instead of applying some global 3D segmentation method such as PointNet, we propose an end-to-end architecture for LiDAR point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Pierre Biasutti , Vincent Lepetit , Jean-François Aujol , Mathieu Brédif , Aurélie Bugeau

We investigate transductive zero-shot point cloud semantic segmentation, where the network is trained on seen objects and able to segment unseen objects. The 3D geometric elements are essential cues to imply a novel 3D object type. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-02 Runnan Chen , Xinge Zhu , Nenglun Chen , Wei Li , Yuexin Ma , Ruigang Yang , Wenping Wang

Reducing the quantity of annotations required for supervised training is vital when labels are scarce and costly. This reduction is particularly important for semantic segmentation tasks involving 3D datasets, which are often significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Andrej Janda , Brandon Wagstaff , Edwin G. Ng , Jonathan Kelly

In this work, we present a simple yet effective framework to address the domain translation problem between different sensor modalities with unique data formats. By relying only on the semantics of the scene, our modular generative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Tiago Cortinhal , Fatih Kurnaz , Eren Aksoy

LiDAR point clouds are fundamental to various applications, yet the extreme sparsity of high-precision geometric details hinders efficient context modeling, thereby limiting the compression speed and performance of existing methods. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 Pengpeng Yu , Haoran Li , Runqing Jiang , Dingquan Li , Jing Wang , Liang Lin , Yulan Guo

Self-supervised learning (SSL) has the potential to benefit many applications, particularly those where manually annotating data is cumbersome. One such situation is the semantic segmentation of point clouds. In this context, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Yanhao Wu , Tong Zhang , Wei Ke , Sabine Süsstrunk , Mathieu Salzmann

Sketch semantic segmentation is a well-explored and pivotal problem in computer vision involving the assignment of pre-defined part labels to individual strokes. This paper presents ContextSeg - a simple yet highly effective approach to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Jiawei Wang , Changjian Li

This paper introduces Scene Completeness-Aware Depth Completion (SCADC) to complete raw lidar scans into dense depth maps with fine and complete scene structures. Recent sparse depth completion for lidars only focuses on the lower scenes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-18 Cho-Ying Wu , Ulrich Neumann

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds, essential for autonomous driving and infrastructure management, is best achieved by supervised learning, which demands extensive annotated datasets and faces the problem of domain shifts. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-07 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Frémont