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Recent advances in self-supervised learning (SSL) for point clouds have substantially improved 3D scene understanding without human annotations. Existing approaches emphasize semantic awareness by enforcing feature consistency across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Bin Yang , Mohamed Abdelsamad , Miao Zhang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Contemporary point cloud segmentation approaches largely rely on richly annotated 3D training data. However, it is both time-consuming and challenging to obtain consistently accurate annotations for such 3D scene data. Moreover, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Jiaxu Liu , Zhengdi Yu , Toby P. Breckon , Hubert P. H. Shum

This paper proposes a novel block merging algorithm suitable for any block-based 3D instance segmentation technique. The proposed work improves over the state-of-the-art by allowing wrongly labelled points of already processed blocks to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Leon Denis , Remco Royen , Adrian Munteanu

3D point cloud segmentation remains challenging for structureless and textureless regions. We present a new unified point-based framework for 3D point cloud segmentation that effectively optimizes pixel-level features, geometrical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-20 Hung-Yueh Chiang , Yen-Liang Lin , Yueh-Cheng Liu , Winston H. Hsu

We propose SegVec3D, a novel framework for 3D point cloud instance segmentation that integrates attention mechanisms, embedding learning, and cross-modal alignment. The approach builds a hierarchical feature extractor to enhance geometric…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Zhihan Kang , Boyu Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel joint instance and semantic segmentation approach, which is called JSNet, in order to address the instance and semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds simultaneously. Firstly, we build an effective…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-23 Lin Zhao , Wenbing Tao

Instance segmentation in 3D is a challenging task due to the lack of large-scale annotated datasets. In this paper, we show that this task can be addressed effectively by leveraging instead 2D pre-trained models for instance segmentation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Yash Bhalgat , Iro Laina , João F. Henriques , Andrew Zisserman , Andrea Vedaldi

Segmenting object instances is a key task in machine perception, with safety-critical applications in robotics and autonomous driving. We introduce a novel approach to instance segmentation that jointly leverages measurements from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Alex Zihao Zhu , Vincent Casser , Reza Mahjourian , Henrik Kretzschmar , Sören Pirk

Instance segmentation in 3D scenes is fundamental in many applications of scene understanding. It is yet challenging due to the compound factors of data irregularity and uncertainty in the numbers of instances. State-of-the-art methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Zhihao Liang , Zhihao Li , Songcen Xu , Mingkui Tan , Kui Jia

3D point cloud segmentation has made tremendous progress in recent years. Most current methods focus on aggregating local features, but fail to directly model long-range dependencies. In this paper, we propose Stratified Transformer that is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Xin Lai , Jianhui Liu , Li Jiang , Liwei Wang , Hengshuang Zhao , Shu Liu , Xiaojuan Qi , Jiaya Jia

We present 3D-MPA, a method for instance segmentation on 3D point clouds. Given an input point cloud, we propose an object-centric approach where each point votes for its object center. We sample object proposals from the predicted object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Francis Engelmann , Martin Bokeloh , Alireza Fathi , Bastian Leibe , Matthias Nießner

Recently, progress in acquisition equipment such as LiDAR sensors has enabled sensing increasingly spacious outdoor 3D environments. Making sense of such 3D acquisitions requires fine-grained scene understanding, such as constructing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Cedric Perauer , Laurenz Adrian Heidrich , Haifan Zhang , Matthias Nießner , Anastasiia Kornilova , Alexey Artemov

We introduce PointGauss, a novel point cloud-guided framework for real-time multi-object segmentation in Gaussian Splatting representations. Unlike existing methods that suffer from prolonged initialization and limited multi-view…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Wentao Sun , Hanqing Xu , Quanyun Wu , Dedong Zhang , Yiping Chen , Lingfei Ma , John S. Zelek , Jonathan Li

Instance segmentation on 3D point clouds is one of the most extensively researched areas toward the realization of autonomous cars and robots. Certain existing studies have split input point clouds into small regions such as 1m x 1m; one…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-30 Kosuke Arase , Yusuke Mukuta , Tatsuya Harada

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

We introduce a 3D instance representation, termed instance kernels, where instances are represented by one-dimensional vectors that encode the semantic, positional, and shape information of 3D instances. We show that instance kernels enable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Yizheng Wu , Min Shi , Shuaiyuan Du , Hao Lu , Zhiguo Cao , Weicai Zhong

3D object detection from point clouds plays a critical role in autonomous driving. Currently, the primary methods for point cloud processing are voxel-based and pillar-based approaches. Voxel-based methods offer high accuracy through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Liu Qifeng , Zhao Dawei , Dong Yabo , Xiao Liang , Wang Juan , Min Chen , Li Fuyang , Jiang Weizhong , Lu Dongming , Nie Yiming

We focus on the problem of class-agnostic instance segmentation of LiDAR point clouds. We propose an approach that combines graph-theoretic search with data-driven learning: it searches over a set of candidate segmentations and returns one…

Robotics · Computer Science 2019-12-12 Peiyun Hu , David Held , Deva Ramanan

3D point cloud semantic segmentation aims to group all points into different semantic categories, which benefits important applications such as point cloud scene reconstruction and understanding. Existing supervised point cloud semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Canyu Zhang , Zhenyao Wu , Xinyi Wu , Ziyu Zhao , Song Wang

Compared with the visual grounding on 2D images, the natural-language-guided 3D object localization on point clouds is more challenging. In this paper, we propose a new model, named InstanceRefer, to achieve a superior 3D visual grounding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-30 Zhihao Yuan , Xu Yan , Yinghong Liao , Ruimao Zhang , Sheng Wang , Zhen Li , Shuguang Cui