English
Related papers

Related papers: Point Cloud Instance Segmentation with Semi-superv…

200 papers

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

Competitive point cloud semantic segmentation results usually rely on a large amount of labeled data. However, data annotation is a time-consuming and labor-intensive task, particularly for three-dimensional point cloud data. Thus,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-06 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao

Existing methods for large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation require expensive, tedious and error-prone manual point-wise annotations. Intuitively, weakly supervised training is a direct solution to reduce the cost of labeling.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Yachao Zhang , Zonghao Li , Yuan Xie , Yanyun Qu , Cuihua Li , Tao Mei

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

3D instance segmentation (3DIS) is a crucial task, but point-level annotations are tedious in fully supervised settings. Thus, using bounding boxes (bboxes) as annotations has shown great potential. The current mainstream approach is a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Jiahao Lu , Jiacheng Deng , Tianzhu Zhang

Moving object segmentation is a crucial task for safe and reliable autonomous mobile systems like self-driving cars, improving the reliability and robustness of subsequent tasks like SLAM or path planning. While the segmentation of camera…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-05 Leon Schwarzer , Matthias Zeller , Daniel Casado Herraez , Simon Dierl , Michael Heidingsfeld , Cyrill Stachniss

Object point cloud classification has drawn great research attention since the release of benchmarking datasets, such as the ModelNet and the ShapeNet. These benchmarks assume point clouds covering complete surfaces of object instances, for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Zelin Xu , Ke Chen , Kangjun Liu , Changxing Ding , Yaowei Wang , Kui Jia

We introduce a highly efficient method for panoptic segmentation of large 3D point clouds by redefining this task as a scalable graph clustering problem. This approach can be trained using only local auxiliary tasks, thereby eliminating the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Damien Robert , Hugo Raguet , Loic Landrieu

In this paper, we introduce a novel learning scheme named weakly semi-supervised instance segmentation (WSSIS) with point labels for budget-efficient and high-performance instance segmentation. Namely, we consider a dataset setting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Beomyoung Kim , Joonhyun Jeong , Dongyoon Han , Sung Ju Hwang

The requirement of expensive annotations is a major burden for training a well-performed instance segmentation model. In this paper, we present an economic active learning setting, named active pointly-supervised instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 Chufeng Tang , Lingxi Xie , Gang Zhang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Qi Tian , Xiaolin Hu

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-13 Xian Shi , Xun Xu , Ke Chen , Lile Cai , Chuan Sheng Foo , Kui Jia

The similarity among samples and the discrepancy between clusters are two crucial aspects of image clustering. However, current deep clustering methods suffer from the inaccurate estimation of either feature similarity or semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Chuang Niu , Hongming Shan , Ge Wang

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

Semi-supervised learning (SSL), thanks to the significant reduction of data annotation costs, has been an active research topic for large-scale 3D scene understanding. However, the existing SSL-based methods suffer from severe training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Mengtian Li , Shaohui Lin , Zihan Wang , Yunhang Shen , Baochang Zhang , Lizhuang Ma

Current 3D segmentation methods heavily rely on large-scale point-cloud datasets, which are notoriously laborious to annotate. Few attempts have been made to circumvent the need for dense per-point annotations. In this work, we look at…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Julian Chibane , Francis Engelmann , Tuan Anh Tran , Gerard Pons-Moll

3D instance segmentation is crucial for understanding complex 3D environments, yet fully supervised methods require dense point-level annotations, resulting in substantial annotation costs and labor overhead. To mitigate this, box-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Youngju Yoo , Seho Kim , Changick Kim

Although instance segmentation methods have improved considerably, the dominant paradigm is to rely on fully-annotated training images, which are tedious to obtain. To alleviate this reliance, and boost results, semi-supervised approaches…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Tariq Berrada , Camille Couprie , Karteek Alahari , Jakob Verbeek

Most existing point cloud instance and semantic segmentation methods rely heavily on strong supervision signals, which require point-level labels for every point in the scene. However, such strong supervision suffers from large annotation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-26 An Tao , Yueqi Duan , Yi Wei , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou

Semantic labelling and instance segmentation are two tasks that require particularly costly annotations. Starting from weak supervision in the form of bounding box detection annotations, we propose a new approach that does not require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Anna Khoreva , Rodrigo Benenson , Jan Hosang , Matthias Hein , Bernt Schiele

Point cloud panoptic segmentation is a challenging task that seeks a holistic solution for both semantic and instance segmentation to predict groupings of coherent points. Previous approaches treat semantic and instance segmentation as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Shihao Su , Jianyun Xu , Huanyu Wang , Zhenwei Miao , Xin Zhan , Dayang Hao , Xi Li