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Deep learning models are the state-of-the-art methods for semantic point cloud segmentation, the success of which relies on the availability of large-scale annotated datasets. However, it can be extremely time-consuming and prohibitively…

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Existing state-of-the-art 3D point clouds understanding methods only perform well in a fully supervised manner. To the best of our knowledge, there exists no unified framework which simultaneously solves the downstream high-level…

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Pseudo-labels are widely employed in weakly supervised 3D segmentation tasks where only sparse ground-truth labels are available for learning. Existing methods often rely on empirical label selection strategies, such as confidence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Liyao Tang , Zhe Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Chaoyue Wang , Dacheng Tao

Lesion segmentation on nasal endoscopic images is challenging due to its complex lesion features. Fully-supervised deep learning methods achieve promising performance with pixel-level annotations but impose a significant annotation burden…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Pengyu Jie , Wanquan Liu , Chenqiang Gao , Yihui Wen , Rui He , Weiping Wen , Pengcheng Li , Jintao Zhang , Deyu Meng

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud data often comes with high annotation costs. Active learning automates the process of selecting which data to annotate, reducing the total amount of annotation needed to achieve satisfactory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Johannes Meyer , Jasper Hoffmann , Felix Schulz , Dominik Merkle , Daniel Buescher , Alexander Reiterer , Joschka Boedecker , Wolfram Burgard

Despite the remarkable performance of supervised medical image segmentation models, relying on a large amount of labeled data is impractical in real-world situations. Semi-supervised learning approaches aim to alleviate this challenge using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Tareef Daqqaq , Reem Kateb

Label-efficient segmentation aims to perform effective segmentation on input data using only sparse and limited ground-truth labels for training. This topic is widely studied in 3D point cloud segmentation due to the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Liyao Tang , Zhe Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Chaoyue Wang , Dacheng Tao

We propose a fully automatic annotation scheme that takes a raw 3D point cloud with a set of fitted CAD models as input and outputs convincing point-wise labels that can be used as cheap training data for point cloud segmentation. Compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Galadrielle Humblot-Renaux , Simon Buus Jensen , Andreas Møgelmose

Labelling point clouds fully is highly time-consuming and costly. As larger point cloud datasets with billions of points become more common, we ask whether the full annotation is even necessary, demonstrating that existing baselines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Qingyong Hu , Bo Yang , Guangchi Fang , Yulan Guo , Ales Leonardis , Niki Trigoni , Andrew Markham

Semantic segmentation has been continuously investigated in the last ten years, and majority of the established technologies are based on supervised models. In recent years, image-level weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS),…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-04 Xiangrong Zhang , Zelin Peng , Peng Zhu , Tianyang Zhang , Chen Li , Huiyu Zhou , Licheng Jiao

Existing weakly-supervised semantic segmentation methods using image-level annotations typically rely on initial responses to locate object regions. However, such response maps generated by the classification network usually focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Yu-Ting Chang , Qiaosong Wang , Wei-Chih Hung , Robinson Piramuthu , Yi-Hsuan Tsai , Ming-Hsuan Yang

This paper investigates indoor point cloud semantic segmentation under scene-level annotation, which is less explored compared to methods relying on sparse point-level labels. In the absence of precise point-level labels, current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Lunhao Duan , Shanshan Zhao , Xingxing Weng , Jing Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

Accurate semantic segmentation of terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) point clouds is limited by costly manual annotation. We propose a semi-automated, uncertainty-aware pipeline that integrates spherical projection, feature enrichment,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Fei Zhang , Rob Chancia , Josie Clapp , Amirhossein Hassanzadeh , Dimah Dera , Richard MacKenzie , Jan van Aardt

Weakly-supervised point cloud segmentation with extremely limited labels is highly desirable to alleviate the expensive costs of collecting densely annotated 3D points. This paper explores applying the consistency regularization that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zhonghua Wu , Yicheng Wu , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai

In response to the growing demand for 3D object detection in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality, this work focuses on the evaluation of semi-supervised learning approaches for point cloud data. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Maksim Golyadkin , Alexander Gambashidze , Ildar Nurgaliev , Ilya Makarov

It is laborious to manually label point cloud data for training high-quality 3D object detectors. This work proposes a weakly supervised approach for 3D object detection, only requiring a small set of weakly annotated scenes, associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Qinghao Meng , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Jianbing Shen , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud scenes is a crucial task for various applications. In real-world scenarios, training segmentation models often faces three concurrent forms of data insufficiency: scarcity of training scenes, scarcity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Takahiko Furuya

Many existing approaches for 3D point cloud semantic segmentation are fully supervised. These fully supervised approaches heavily rely on large amounts of labeled training data that are difficult to obtain and cannot segment new classes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Na Zhao , Tat-Seng Chua , Gim Hee Lee

Semantic understanding of 3D point cloud relies on learning models with massively annotated data, which, in many cases, are expensive or difficult to collect. This has led to an emerging research interest in semi-supervised learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xian Shi , Xun Xu , Wanyue Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Chuan Sheng Foo , Kui Jia