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Rapid progress in 3D semantic segmentation is inseparable from the advances of deep network models, which highly rely on large-scale annotated data for training. To address the high cost and challenges of 3D point-level labeling, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Li Jiang , Shaoshuai Shi , Zhuotao Tian , Xin Lai , Shu Liu , Chi-Wing Fu , Jiaya Jia

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

We propose a novel algorithm for weakly supervised semantic segmentation based on image-level class labels only. In weakly supervised setting, it is commonly observed that trained model overly focuses on discriminative parts rather than the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-09 Seunghoon Hong , Donghun Yeo , Suha Kwak , Honglak Lee , Bohyung Han

3D point cloud semantic segmentation has a wide range of applications. Recently, weakly supervised point cloud segmentation methods have been proposed, aiming to alleviate the expensive and laborious manual annotation process by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Xiawei Li , Qingyuan Xu , Jing Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Qian Yu , Lu Sheng , Dong Xu

We propose a weakly supervised semantic segmentation method for point clouds that predicts "per-point" labels from just "whole-scene" annotations. The key challenge here is the discrepancy between the target of dense per-point semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Shaobo Xia , Jun Yue , Kacper Kania , Leyuan Fang , Andrea Tagliasacchi , Kwang Moo Yi , Weiwei Sun

Addressing the annotation challenge in 3D Point Cloud segmentation has inspired research into weakly supervised learning. Existing approaches mainly focus on exploiting manifold and pseudo-labeling to make use of large unlabeled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Yongyi Su , Xun Xu , Kui Jia

Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) trains dense pixel-level segmentation models from partial or coarse annotations such as bounding boxes, scribbles, or image-level tags. While recent work leverages foundation models such as the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Stefano Colamonaco , Andrei-Bogdan Florea , Jaron Maene

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

A main bottleneck of learning-based robotic scene understanding methods is the heavy reliance on extensive annotated training data, which often limits their generalization ability. In LiDAR panoptic segmentation, this challenge becomes even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ahmet Selim Çanakçı , Niclas Vödisch , Kürsat Petek , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

Whilst the availability of 3D LiDAR point cloud data has significantly grown in recent years, annotation remains expensive and time-consuming, leading to a demand for semi-supervised semantic segmentation methods with application domains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Li Li , Hubert P. H. Shum , Toby P. Breckon

Scribble-based weakly supervised semantic segmentation leverages only a few annotated pixels as labels to train a segmentation model, presenting significant potential for reducing the human labor involved in the annotation process. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-19 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Shuang Zeng , Hangzhou He , Ourui Fu , Zhengjian Yao , Zhaoheng Xie , Yanye Lu

It is generally accepted that one of the critical parts of current vision algorithms based on deep learning and convolutional neural networks is the annotation of a sufficient number of images to achieve competitive performance. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-05 Kai Yao , Alberto Ortiz , Francisco Bonnin-Pascual

Although existing semantic segmentation approaches achieve impressive results, they still struggle to update their models incrementally as new categories are uncovered. Furthermore, pixel-by-pixel annotations are expensive and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-04 Fabio Cermelli , Dario Fontanel , Antonio Tavera , Marco Ciccone , Barbara Caputo

Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

Due to the limited and even imbalanced data, semi-supervised semantic segmentation tends to have poor performance on some certain categories, e.g., tailed categories in Cityscapes dataset which exhibits a long-tailed label distribution.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Hanzhe Hu , Fangyun Wei , Han Hu , Qiwei Ye , Jinshi Cui , Liwei Wang

Tooth point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in many orthodontic applications. Current research mainly focuses on fully supervised learning which demands expensive and tedious manual point-wise annotation. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yifan Liu , Wuyang Li , Cheng Wang , Hui Chen , Yixuan Yuan

The expensive annotation cost is notoriously known as the main constraint for the development of the point cloud semantic segmentation technique. Active learning methods endeavor to reduce such cost by selecting and labeling only a subset…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Feifei Shao , Yawei Luo , Ping Liu , Jie Chen , Yi Yang , Yulei Lu , Jun Xiao

Point cloud semantic segmentation is a crucial task in 3D scene understanding. Existing methods mainly focus on employing a large number of annotated labels for supervised semantic segmentation. Nonetheless, manually labeling such large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mingmei Cheng , Le Hui , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

Reliance on vast annotations to achieve leading performance severely restricts the practicality of large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation. For the purpose of reducing data annotation costs, effective labeling schemes are developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao , Jie Shao

Unlike fully supervised semantic segmentation, weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) relies on weaker forms of supervision to perform dense prediction tasks. Among the various types of weak supervision, WSSS with image level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Zheyuan Zhang , Wang Zhang