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LiDAR point cloud analysis is a core task for 3D computer vision, especially for autonomous driving. However, due to the severe sparsity and noise interference in the single sweep LiDAR point cloud, the accurate semantic segmentation is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Xu Yan , Jiantao Gao , Jie Li , Ruimao Zhang , Zhen Li , Rui Huang , Shuguang Cui

In recent years, with the development of computing resources and LiDAR, point cloud semantic segmentation has attracted many researchers. For the sparsity of point clouds, although there is already a way to deal with sparse convolution,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-01 Yunzheng Su , Lei Jiang , Jie Cao

Rapid progress in 3D semantic segmentation is inseparable from the advances of deep network models, which highly rely on large-scale annotated data for training. To address the high cost and challenges of 3D point-level labeling, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-18 Li Jiang , Shaoshuai Shi , Zhuotao Tian , Xin Lai , Shu Liu , Chi-Wing Fu , Jiaya Jia

Self-training via pseudo labeling is a conventional, simple, and popular pipeline to leverage unlabeled data. In this work, we first construct a strong baseline of self-training (namely ST) for semi-supervised semantic segmentation via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Lihe Yang , Wei Zhuo , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Annotating large-scale LiDAR point clouds for 3D semantic segmentation is costly and time-consuming, which motivates the use of semi-supervised learning (SemiSL). Standard LiDAR SemiSL methods typically adopt a two-step training paradigm,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Bin Yang , Alexandru Paul Condurache

Fast and efficient semantic segmentation of large-scale LiDAR point clouds is a fundamental problem in autonomous driving. To achieve this goal, the existing point-based methods mainly choose to adopt Random Sampling strategy to process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-07 XianFeng Han , Huixian Cheng , Hang Jiang , Dehong He , Guoqiang Xiao

We present a lightweight post-processing method to refine the semantic segmentation results of point cloud sequences. Most existing methods usually segment frame by frame and encounter the inherent ambiguity of the problem: based on a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-02 Yutaka Momma , Weimin Wang , Edgar Simo-Serra , Satoshi Iizuka , Ryosuke Nakamura , Hiroshi Ishikawa

Unsupervised online 3D instance segmentation is a fundamental yet challenging task, as it requires maintaining consistent object identities across LiDAR scans without relying on annotated training data. Existing methods, such as UNIT, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yifan Zhang , Wei Zhang , Chuangxin He , Zhonghua Miao , Junhui Hou

Semantic scene understanding is crucial for robotics and computer vision applications. In autonomous driving, 3D semantic segmentation plays an important role for enabling safe navigation. Despite significant advances in the field, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Lucas Nunes , Rodrigo Marcuzzi , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

Point clouds provide intrinsic geometric information and surface context for scene understanding. Existing methods for point cloud segmentation require a large amount of fully labeled data. Using advanced depth sensors, collection of large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-31 Jiacheng Wei , Guosheng Lin , Kim-Hui Yap , Tzu-Yi Hung , Lihua Xie

LiDAR-based 3D object detection and semantic segmentation are critical tasks in 3D scene understanding. Traditional detection and segmentation methods supervise their models through bounding box labels and semantic mask labels. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Maoji Zheng , Ziyu Xu , Qiming Xia , Hai Wu , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang

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

It is laborious to manually label point cloud data for training high-quality 3D object detectors. This work proposes a weakly supervised approach for 3D object detection, only requiring a small set of weakly annotated scenes, associated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-24 Qinghao Meng , Wenguan Wang , Tianfei Zhou , Jianbing Shen , Luc Van Gool , Dengxin Dai

We propose a fully automatic annotation scheme that takes a raw 3D point cloud with a set of fitted CAD models as input and outputs convincing point-wise labels that can be used as cheap training data for point cloud segmentation. Compared…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-26 Galadrielle Humblot-Renaux , Simon Buus Jensen , Andreas Møgelmose

Using deep learning, we now have the ability to create exceptionally good semantic segmentation systems; however, collecting the prerequisite pixel-wise annotations for training images remains expensive and time-consuming. Therefore, it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Aneesh Rangnekar , Christopher Kanan , Matthew Hoffman

Addressing the annotation challenge in 3D Point Cloud segmentation has inspired research into weakly supervised learning. Existing approaches mainly focus on exploiting manifold and pseudo-labeling to make use of large unlabeled data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-09 Yongyi Su , Xun Xu , Kui Jia

For best performance, today's semantic segmentation methods use large and carefully labeled datasets, requiring expensive annotation budgets. In this work, we show that coarse annotation is a low-cost but highly effective alternative for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-16 Anurag Das , Yongqin Xian , Yang He , Zeynep Akata , Bernt Schiele

3D point cloud semantic segmentation has a wide range of applications. Recently, weakly supervised point cloud segmentation methods have been proposed, aiming to alleviate the expensive and laborious manual annotation process by leveraging…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Xiawei Li , Qingyuan Xu , Jing Zhang , Tianyi Zhang , Qian Yu , Lu Sheng , Dong Xu

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

In response to the growing demand for 3D object detection in applications such as autonomous driving, robotics, and augmented reality, this work focuses on the evaluation of semi-supervised learning approaches for point cloud data. The…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Maksim Golyadkin , Alexander Gambashidze , Ildar Nurgaliev , Ilya Makarov