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Perception and localization are essential for autonomous delivery vehicles, mostly estimated from 3D LiDAR sensors due to their precise distance measurement capability. This paper presents a strategy to obtain the real-time pseudo point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-18 Sabir Hossain , Xianke Lin

Reliance on vast annotations to achieve leading performance severely restricts the practicality of large-scale point cloud semantic segmentation. For the purpose of reducing data annotation costs, effective labeling schemes are developed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-24 Puzuo Wang , Wei Yao , Jie Shao

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

Accurate and fast scene understanding is one of the challenging task for autonomous driving, which requires to take full advantage of LiDAR point clouds for semantic segmentation. In this paper, we present a \textbf{concise} and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-27 Hui-Xian Cheng , Xian-Feng Han , Guo-Qiang Xiao

Many automated processes such as auto-piloting rely on a good semantic segmentation as a critical component. To speed up performance, it is common to downsample the input frame. However, this comes at the cost of missed small objects and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-07-17 Dmitrii Marin , Zijian He , Peter Vajda , Priyam Chatterjee , Sam Tsai , Fei Yang , Yuri Boykov

Deployment of deep learning models in robotics as sensory information extractors can be a daunting task to handle, even using generic GPU cards. Here, we address three of its most prominent hurdles, namely, i) the adaptation of a single…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-02-28 Vladimir Nekrasov , Thanuja Dharmasiri , Andrew Spek , Tom Drummond , Chunhua Shen , Ian Reid

Semantic segmentation is essential for automating remote sensing analysis in fields like ecology. However, fine-grained analysis of complex aerial or underwater imagery remains an open challenge, even for state-of-the-art models. Progress…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Cesar Borja , Carlos Plou , Ruben Martinez-Cantin , Ana C. Murillo

We show that it is possible to learn semantic segmentation from very limited amounts of manual annotations, by enforcing geometric 3D constraints between multiple views. More exactly, image locations corresponding to the same physical 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-01-10 Sinisa Stekovic , Friedrich Fraundorfer , Vincent Lepetit

Recent advances in computer vision using deep learning with RGB imagery (e.g., object recognition and detection) have been made possible thanks to the development of large annotated RGB image datasets. In contrast, multispectral image (MSI)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Ronald Kemker , Ryan Luu , Christopher Kanan

Despite the remarkable performance of supervised medical image segmentation models, relying on a large amount of labeled data is impractical in real-world situations. Semi-supervised learning approaches aim to alleviate this challenge using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Yunyao Lu , Yihang Wu , Ahmad Chaddad , Tareef Daqqaq , Reem Kateb

3D instance segmentation methods often require fully-annotated dense labels for training, which are costly to obtain. In this paper, we present ClickSeg, a novel click-level weakly supervised 3D instance segmentation method that requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Leyao Liu , Tao Kong , Minzhao Zhu , Jiashuo Fan , Lu Fang

Image segmentation methods are usually trained with pixel-level annotations, which require significant human effort to collect. The most common solution to address this constraint is to implement weakly-supervised pipelines trained with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-26 Miriam Bellver , Amaia Salvador , Jordi Torres , Xavier Giro-i-Nieto

Adapting vision-language models to remote sensing imagery presents a fundamental challenge: both the visual and linguistic distributions of satellite data lie far outside natural image pretraining corpora. Despite this, prompting remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Harshith Kethavath , Weiming Hu

LiDAR point clouds are widely used in autonomous driving and consist of large numbers of 3D points captured at high frequency to represent surrounding objects such as vehicles, pedestrians, and traffic signs. While this dense data enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Z. Rozsa , Á. Madaras , Q. Wei , X. Lu , M. Golarits , H. Yuan , T. Sziranyi , R. Hamzaoui

Semantic understanding of 3D point cloud relies on learning models with massively annotated data, which, in many cases, are expensive or difficult to collect. This has led to an emerging research interest in semi-supervised learning (SSL)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Xian Shi , Xun Xu , Wanyue Zhang , Xiatian Zhu , Chuan Sheng Foo , Kui Jia

Recently, sparsely-supervised 3D object detection has gained great attention, achieving performance close to fully-supervised 3D objectors while requiring only a few annotated instances. Nevertheless, these methods suffer challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Shijia Zhao , Qiming Xia , Xusheng Guo , Pufan Zou , Maoji Zheng , Hai Wu , Chenglu Wen , Cheng Wang

Traditional supervised 3D medical image segmentation models need voxel-level annotations, which require huge human effort, time, and cost. Semi-supervised learning (SSL) addresses this limitation of supervised learning by facilitating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-09 Suruchi Kumari , Aryan Das , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Indu Joshi , Pravendra Singh

Mobile robots and autonomous vehicles rely on multi-modal sensor setups to perceive and understand their surroundings. Aside from cameras, LiDAR sensors represent a central component of state-of-the-art perception systems. In addition to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-27 Florian Piewak , Peter Pinggera , Manuel Schäfer , David Peter , Beate Schwarz , Nick Schneider , David Pfeiffer , Markus Enzweiler , Marius Zöllner

The costly process of obtaining semantic segmentation labels has driven research towards weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) methods, using only image-level, point, or box labels. The lack of dense scene representation requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Peri Akiva , Kristin Dana

We study an unsupervised domain adaptation problem for the semantic labeling of 3D point clouds, with a particular focus on domain discrepancies induced by different LiDAR sensors. Based on the observation that sparse 3D point clouds are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-01 Li Yi , Boqing Gong , Thomas Funkhouser