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A main bottleneck of learning-based robotic scene understanding methods is the heavy reliance on extensive annotated training data, which often limits their generalization ability. In LiDAR panoptic segmentation, this challenge becomes even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Ahmet Selim Çanakçı , Niclas Vödisch , Kürsat Petek , Wolfram Burgard , Abhinav Valada

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Kangcheng Liu

Traditionally, algorithms that learn to segment object instances in 2D images have heavily relied on large amounts of human-annotated data. Only recently, novel approaches have emerged tackling this problem in an unsupervised fashion.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-25 Leon Sick , Dominik Engel , Sebastian Hartwig , Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Outdoor LiDAR point cloud 3D instance segmentation is a crucial task in autonomous driving. However, it requires laborious human efforts to annotate the point cloud for training a segmentation model. To address this challenge, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Guangfeng Jiang , Jun Liu , Yongxuan Lv , Yuzhi Wu , Xianfei Li , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

Reducing the quantity of annotations required for supervised training is vital when labels are scarce and costly. This reduction is particularly important for semantic segmentation tasks involving 3D datasets, which are often significantly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Andrej Janda , Brandon Wagstaff , Edwin G. Ng , Jonathan Kelly

Recognizing 3D part instances from a 3D point cloud is crucial for 3D structure and scene understanding. Several learning-based approaches use semantic segmentation and instance center prediction as training tasks and fail to further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-10 Chunyu Sun , Xin Tong , Yang Liu

Instance segmentation is a fundamental research in computer vision, especially in autonomous driving. However, manual mask annotation for instance segmentation is quite time-consuming and costly. To address this problem, some prior works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Guangfeng Jiang , Jun Liu , Yuzhi Wu , Wenlong Liao , Tao He , Pai Peng

We propose a new supervized learning framework for oversegmenting 3D point clouds into superpoints. We cast this problem as learning deep embeddings of the local geometry and radiometry of 3D points, such that the border of objects presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-04 Loic Landrieu , Mohamed Boussaha

We propose an interactive approach for 3D instance segmentation, where users can iteratively collaborate with a deep learning model to segment objects in a 3D point cloud directly. Current methods for 3D instance segmentation are generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Theodora Kontogianni , Ekin Celikkan , Siyu Tang , Konrad Schindler

3D semantic segmentation is a fundamental building block for several scene understanding applications such as autonomous driving, robotics and AR/VR. Several state-of-the-art semantic segmentation models suffer from the part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Anirud Thyagharajan , Benjamin Ummenhofer , Prashant Laddha , Om J Omer , Sreenivas Subramoney

Recent approaches for weakly supervised instance segmentations depend on two components: (i) a pseudo label generation model that provides instances which are consistent with a given annotation; and (ii) an instance segmentation model,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Aditya Arun , C. V. Jawahar , M. Pawan Kumar

We propose a new approach for 3D instance segmentation based on sparse convolution and point affinity prediction, which indicates the likelihood of two points belonging to the same instance. The proposed network, built upon submanifold…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-13 Chen Liu , Yasutaka Furukawa

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

Existing salient instance detection (SID) methods typically learn from pixel-level annotated datasets. In this paper, we present the first weakly-supervised approach to the SID problem. Although weak supervision has been considered in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-22 Xin Tian , Ke Xu , Xin Yang , Baocai Yin , Rynson W. H. Lau

We propose a novel method for instance label segmentation of dense 3D voxel grids. We target volumetric scene representations, which have been acquired with depth sensors or multi-view stereo methods and which have been processed with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-11-04 Jean Lahoud , Bernard Ghanem , Marc Pollefeys , Martin R. Oswald

Bounding box supervision has gained considerable attention in weakly supervised 3D instance segmentation. While this approach alleviates the need for extensive point-level annotations, obtaining accurate bounding boxes in practical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Qian Deng , Le Hui , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

The annotation of 3D datasets is required for semantic-segmentation and object detection in scene understanding. In this paper we present a framework for the weakly supervision of a point clouds transformer that is used for 3D object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Zuojin Tang , Bo Sun , Tongwei Ma , Daosheng Li , Zhenhui Xu

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

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

Weakly supervised point cloud segmentation, i.e. semantically segmenting a point cloud with only a few labeled points in the whole 3D scene, is highly desirable due to the heavy burden of collecting abundant dense annotations for the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Zhonghua Wu , Yicheng Wu , Guosheng Lin , Jianfei Cai , Chen Qian