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Semi-supervised semantic segmentation (SSSS) faces persistent challenges in effectively leveraging unlabeled data, such as ineffective utilization of pseudo-labels, exacerbation of class imbalance biases, and neglect of prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Ebenezer Tarubinga , Jenifer Kalafatovich , Seong-Whan Lee

Learning dense point-wise semantics from unstructured 3D point clouds with fewer labels, although a realistic problem, has been under-explored in literature. While existing weakly supervised methods can effectively learn semantics with only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yan Liu , Qingyong Hu , Yinjie Lei , Kai Xu , Jonathan Li , Yulan Guo

In the past decade, deep neural networks have achieved significant progress in point cloud learning. However, collecting large-scale precisely-annotated training data is extremely laborious and expensive, which hinders the scalability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Aoran Xiao , Xiaoqin Zhang , Ling Shao , Shijian Lu

Point cloud data has been extensively studied due to its compact form and flexibility in representing complex 3D structures. The ability of point cloud data to accurately capture and represent intricate 3D geometry makes it an ideal choice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Ben Fei , Weidong Yang , Liwen Liu , Tianyue Luo , Rui Zhang , Yixuan Li , Ying He

A prominent technique for self-supervised representation learning has been to contrast semantically similar and dissimilar pairs of samples. Without access to labels, dissimilar (negative) points are typically taken to be randomly sampled…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-22 Ching-Yao Chuang , Joshua Robinson , Lin Yen-Chen , Antonio Torralba , Stefanie Jegelka

Annotating large-scale point clouds is highly time-consuming and often infeasible for many complex real-world tasks. Point cloud pre-training has therefore become a promising strategy for learning discriminative representations without…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Guofeng Mei , Xiaoshui Huang , Juan Liu , Jian Zhang , Qiang Wu

Due to the few annotated labels of 3D point clouds, how to learn discriminative features of point clouds to segment object instances is a challenging problem. In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective 3D instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Linghua Tang , Le Hui , Jin Xie

We introduce a novel approach to unsupervised and semi-supervised domain adaptation for semantic segmentation. Unlike many earlier methods that rely on adversarial learning for feature alignment, we leverage contrastive learning to bridge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Weizhe Liu , David Ferstl , Samuel Schulter , Lukas Zebedin , Pascal Fua , Christian Leistner

A common challenge posed to robust semantic segmentation is the expensive data annotation cost. Existing semi-supervised solutions show great potential for solving this problem. Their key idea is constructing consistency regularization with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-28 Cong Cao , Tianwei Lin , Dongliang He , Fu Li , Huanjing Yue , Jingyu Yang , Errui Ding

We present a novel semi-supervised semantic segmentation method which jointly achieves two desiderata of segmentation model regularities: the label-space consistency property between image augmentations and the feature-space contrastive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Yuanyi Zhong , Bodi Yuan , Hong Wu , Zhiqiang Yuan , Jian Peng , Yu-Xiong Wang

3D point cloud semantic segmentation (PCSS) is a cornerstone for environmental perception in robotic systems and autonomous driving, enabling precise scene understanding through point-wise classification. While unsupervised domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Junjie Chen , Yuecong Xu , Haosheng Li , Kemi Ding

Semi-supervised learning has the potential to improve the data-efficiency of training data-hungry deep neural networks, which is especially important for medical image analysis tasks where labeled data is scarce. In this work, we present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Boon Peng Yap , Beng Koon Ng

Recently, learning from vast unlabeled data, especially self-supervised learning, has been emerging and attracted widespread attention. Self-supervised learning followed by the supervised fine-tuning on a few labeled examples can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Wentao Zhu , Hang Shang , Tingxun Lv , Chao Liao , Sen Yang , Ji Liu

Semi-supervised learning (SSL) leverages limited labeled and abundant unlabeled data but often faces challenges with data imbalance, especially in 3D contexts. This study investigates class-level confidence as an indicator of learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Zhimin Chen , Bing Li

Semi-supervised multi-organ medical image segmentation aids physicians in improving disease diagnosis and treatment planning and reduces the time and effort required for organ annotation.Existing state-of-the-art methods train the labeled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Haochen Zhao , Hui Meng , Deqian Yang , Xiaozheng Xie , Xiaoze Wu , Qingfeng Li , Jianwei Niu

Current 3D object detection methods heavily rely on an enormous amount of annotations. Semi-supervised learning can be used to alleviate this issue. Previous semi-supervised 3D object detection methods directly follow the practice of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-16 Xiaopei Wu , Yang Zhao , Liang Peng , Hua Chen , Xiaoshui Huang , Binbin Lin , Haifeng Liu , Deng Cai , Wanli Ouyang

3D weakly supervised semantic segmentation (3D WSSS) aims to achieve semantic segmentation by leveraging sparse or low-cost annotated data, significantly reducing reliance on dense point-wise annotations. Previous works mainly employ class…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Xiaoxu Xu , Xuexun Liu , Jinlong Li , Yitian Yuan , Qiudan Zhang , Lin Ma , Nicu Sebe , Xu Wang

Conventional semi-supervised contrastive learning methods assign pseudo-labels only to samples whose highest predicted class probability exceeds a predefined threshold, and then perform supervised contrastive learning using those selected…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Shogo Nakayama , Masahiro Okuda

Pre-training has become a standard paradigm in many computer vision tasks. However, most of the methods are generally designed on the RGB image domain. Due to the discrepancy between the two-dimensional image plane and the three-dimensional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Zhenyu Li , Zehui Chen , Ang Li , Liangji Fang , Qinhong Jiang , Xianming Liu , Junjun Jiang , Bolei Zhou , Hang Zhao

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