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Label-efficient segmentation aims to perform effective segmentation on input data using only sparse and limited ground-truth labels for training. This topic is widely studied in 3D point cloud segmentation due to the difficulty of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-30 Liyao Tang , Zhe Chen , Shanshan Zhao , Chaoyue Wang , Dacheng Tao

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

With the recent growth of urban mapping and autonomous driving efforts, there has been an explosion of raw 3D data collected from terrestrial platforms with lidar scanners and color cameras. However, due to high labeling costs, ground-truth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Kyle Genova , Xiaoqi Yin , Abhijit Kundu , Caroline Pantofaru , Forrester Cole , Avneesh Sud , Brian Brewington , Brian Shucker , Thomas Funkhouser

Point cloud analysis has received much attention recently; and segmentation is one of the most important tasks. The success of existing approaches is attributed to deep network design and large amount of labelled training data, where the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-09 Xun Xu , Gim Hee Lee

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

3D segmentation is a core problem in computer vision and, similarly to many other dense prediction tasks, it requires large amounts of annotated data for adequate training. However, densely labeling 3D point clouds to employ…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Ozan Unal , Christos Sakaridis , Luc Van Gool

Point cloud semantic segmentation is a crucial task in 3D scene understanding. Existing methods mainly focus on employing a large number of annotated labels for supervised semantic segmentation. Nonetheless, manually labeling such large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Mingmei Cheng , Le Hui , Jin Xie , Jian Yang

This paper investigates indoor point cloud semantic segmentation under scene-level annotation, which is less explored compared to methods relying on sparse point-level labels. In the absence of precise point-level labels, current methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Lunhao Duan , Shanshan Zhao , Xingxing Weng , Jing Zhang , Gui-Song Xia

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

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

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Kangcheng Liu

Autonomous vehicles need to have a semantic understanding of the three-dimensional world around them in order to reason about their environment. State of the art methods use deep neural networks to predict semantic classes for each point in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-27 Larissa T. Triess , David Peter , Christoph B. Rist , J. Marius Zöllner

As 3D perception problems grow in popularity and the need for large-scale labeled datasets for LiDAR semantic segmentation increase, new methods arise that aim to reduce the necessity for dense annotations by employing weakly-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Ozan Unal , Dengxin Dai , Lukas Hoyer , Yigit Baran Can , Luc Van Gool

Medical image segmentation typically necessitates a large and precisely annotated dataset. However, obtaining pixel-wise annotation is a labor-intensive task that requires significant effort from domain experts, making it challenging to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Heng Cai , Lei Qi , Qian Yu , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Densely annotating LiDAR point clouds remains too expensive and time-consuming to keep up with the ever growing volume of data. While current literature focuses on fully-supervised performance, developing efficient methods that take…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Ozan Unal , Dengxin Dai , Luc Van Gool

3D semantic segmentation plays a pivotal role in autonomous driving and road infrastructure analysis, yet state-of-the-art 3D models are prone to severe domain shift when deployed across different datasets. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Andrew Caunes , Thierry Chateau , Vincent Fremont

This article presents a complete semantic scene understanding workflow using only a single 2D lidar. This fills the gap in 2D lidar semantic segmentation, thereby enabling the rethinking and enhancement of existing 2D lidar-based algorithms…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zhanteng Xie , Yipeng Pan , Yinqiang Zhang , Jia Pan , Philip Dames

Tooth point cloud segmentation is a fundamental task in many orthodontic applications. Current research mainly focuses on fully supervised learning which demands expensive and tedious manual point-wise annotation. Although recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Yifan Liu , Wuyang Li , Cheng Wang , Hui Chen , Yixuan Yuan

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

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud scenes is a crucial task for various applications. In real-world scenarios, training segmentation models often faces three concurrent forms of data insufficiency: scarcity of training scenes, scarcity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Takahiko Furuya

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