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This work studies the semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR data in dynamic scenes for autonomous driving applications. A system of semantic segmentation using 3D LiDAR data, including range image segmentation, sample generation, inter-frame…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-09-05 Jilin Mei , Biao Gao , Donghao Xu , Wen Yao , Xijun Zhao , Huijing Zhao

To train a well performing neural network for semantic segmentation, it is crucial to have a large dataset with available ground truth for the network to generalize on unseen data. In this paper we present novel point cloud augmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-20 Frederik Hasecke , Martin Alsfasser , Anton Kummert

Given the prominence of current 3D sensors, a fine-grained analysis on the basic point cloud data is worthy of further investigation. Particularly, real point cloud scenes can intuitively capture complex surroundings in the real world, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shi Qiu , Saeed Anwar , Nick Barnes

Labeling LiDAR point clouds for training autonomous driving is extremely expensive and difficult. LiDAR simulation aims at generating realistic LiDAR data with labels for training and verifying self-driving algorithms more efficiently.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Junge Zhang , Feihu Zhang , Shaochen Kuang , Li Zhang

Semantic segmentation of 3D LiDAR point clouds is important in urban remote sensing for understanding real-world street environments. This task, by projecting LiDAR point clouds and 3D semantic labels as sparse maps, can be reformulated as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xiaoyu Dong , Tiankui Xian , Wanshui Gan , Naoto Yokoya

State-of-the-art multimodal semantic segmentation strategies combining LiDAR and color data are usually designed on top of asymmetric information-sharing schemes and assume that both modalities are always available. This strong assumption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Francesco Barbato , Elena Camuffo , Simone Milani , Pietro Zanuttigh

Novel class discovery (NCD) for semantic segmentation is the task of learning a model that can segment unlabelled (novel) classes using only the supervision from labelled (base) classes. This problem has recently been pioneered for 2D image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Luigi Riz , Cristiano Saltori , Elisa Ricci , Fabio Poiesi

Panoptic segmentation presents a new challenge in exploiting the merits of both detection and segmentation, with the aim of unifying instance segmentation and semantic segmentation in a single framework. However, an efficient solution for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Zixiang Zhou , Yang Zhang , Hassan Foroosh

LiDAR-based semantic segmentation plays a vital role in autonomous driving by enabling detailed understanding of 3D environments. However, annotating LiDAR point clouds is extremely costly and requires assigning semantic labels to millions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Ruiyu Mao , Sarthak Kumar Maharana , Xulong Tang , Yunhui Guo

This paper addresses the semantic instance segmentation task in the open-set conditions, where input images can contain known and unknown object classes. The training process of existing semantic instance segmentation methods requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-31 Trung Pham , Vijay Kumar B G , Thanh-Toan Do , Gustavo Carneiro , Ian Reid

Training autonomous driving and navigation systems requires large and diverse point cloud datasets that capture complex edge case scenarios from various dynamic urban settings. Acquiring such diverse scenarios from real-world point cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Suchetan G. Uppur , Hemant Kumar , Vaibhav Kumar

LiDAR point cloud semantic segmentation is essential for interpreting 3D environments in applications such as autonomous driving and robotics. Recent methods achieve strong performance by exploiting different point cloud representations or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Simone Mosco , Daniel Fusaro , Wanmeng Li , Emanuele Menegatti , Alberto Pretto

Continual semantic segmentation aims to learn new classes while maintaining the information from the previous classes. Although prior studies have shown impressive progress in recent years, the fairness concern in the continual semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Thanh-Dat Truong , Hoang-Quan Nguyen , Bhiksha Raj , Khoa Luu

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR points has significant value for autonomous driving and mobile robot systems. Most approaches explore spatio-temporal information of multi-scan to identify the semantic classes and motion states for each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Jiexi Zhong , Zhiheng Li , Yubo Cui , Zheng Fang

This work investigates learning pixel-wise semantic image segmentation in urban scenes without any manual annotation, just from the raw non-curated data collected by cars which, equipped with cameras and LiDAR sensors, drive around a city.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Antonin Vobecky , David Hurych , Oriane Siméoni , Spyros Gidaris , Andrei Bursuc , Patrick Pérez , Josef Sivic

Remote sensing image segmentation faces persistent challenges in distinguishing morphologically similar categories and adapting to diverse scene variations. While existing methods rely on implicit representation learning paradigms, they…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Xuechao Zou , Yue Li , Shun Zhang , Kai Li , Shiying Wang , Pin Tao , Junliang Xing , Congyan Lang

Knowledge transfer from synthetic to real data has been widely studied to mitigate data annotation constraints in various computer vision tasks such as semantic segmentation. However, the study focused on 2D images and its counterpart in 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Aoran Xiao , Jiaxing Huang , Dayan Guan , Fangneng Zhan , Shijian Lu

This technical report presents the 1st place winning solution for the Waymo Open Dataset 3D semantic segmentation challenge 2022. Our network, termed LidarMultiNet, unifies the major LiDAR perception tasks such as 3D semantic segmentation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-27 Dongqiangzi Ye , Weijia Chen , Zixiang Zhou , Yufei Xie , Yu Wang , Panqu Wang , Hassan Foroosh

Point cloud datasets for perception tasks in the context of autonomous driving often rely on high resolution 64-layer Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) scanners. They are expensive to deploy on real-world autonomous driving sensor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-28 Leonardo Gigli , B Ravi Kiran , Thomas Paul , Andres Serna , Nagarjuna Vemuri , Beatriz Marcotegui , Santiago Velasco-Forero

Point cloud semantic segmentation plays an essential role in autonomous driving, providing vital information about drivable surfaces and nearby objects that can aid higher level tasks such as path planning and collision avoidance. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Ozan Unal , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai