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Feedforward fully convolutional neural networks currently dominate in semantic segmentation of 3D point clouds. Despite their great success, they suffer from the loss of local information at low-level layers, posing significant challenges…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Shenglan Du , Nail Ibrahimli , Jantien Stoter , Julian Kooij , Liangliang Nan

Semantic segmentation of point clouds usually requires exhausting efforts of human annotations, hence it attracts wide attention to the challenging topic of learning from unlabeled or weaker forms of annotations. In this paper, we take the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-03 Zisheng Chen , Hongbin Xu , Weitao Chen , Zhipeng Zhou , Haihong Xiao , Baigui Sun , Xuansong Xie , Wenxiong Kang

Semantic segmentation of city-scale point clouds is a critical technology for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) perception systems, enabling the classification of 3D points without relying on any visual information to achieve comprehensive 3D…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Jialei Xu , Zizhuang Wei , Weikang You , Linyun Li , Weijian Sun

Image segmentation is a fundamental task in image analysis and clinical practice. The current state-of-the-art techniques are based on U-shape type encoder-decoder networks with skip connections, called U-Net. Despite the powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Chun-Wun Cheng , Christina Runkel , Lihao Liu , Raymond H Chan , Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb , Angelica I Aviles-Rivero

3D point clouds are rich in geometric structure information, while 2D images contain important and continuous texture information. Combining 2D information to achieve better 3D semantic segmentation has become mainstream in 3D scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Chaolong Yang , Yuyao Yan , Weiguang Zhao , Jianan Ye , Xi Yang , Amir Hussain , Kaizhu Huang

Deep learning techniques have become the to-go models for most vision-related tasks on 2D images. However, their power has not been fully realised on several tasks in 3D space, e.g., 3D scene understanding. In this work, we jointly address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Quang-Hieu Pham , Duc Thanh Nguyen , Binh-Son Hua , Gemma Roig , Sai-Kit Yeung

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

3D point cloud segmentation aims to assign semantic labels to individual points in a scene for fine-grained spatial understanding. Existing methods typically adopt data augmentation to alleviate the burden of large-scale annotation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-31 Hongbin Lin , Yifan Jiang , Juangui Xu , Jesse Jiaxi Xu , Yi Lu , Zhengyu Hu , Ying-Cong Chen , Hao Wang

Point cloud segmentation is one of the most important tasks in computer vision with widespread scientific, industrial, and commercial applications. The research thereof has resulted in many breakthroughs in 3D object and scene…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Dening Lu , Jun Zhou , Kyle Yilin Gao , Dilong Li , Jing Du , Linlin Xu , Jonathan Li

Producing traversability maps and understanding the surroundings are crucial prerequisites for autonomous navigation. In this paper, we address the problem of traversability assessment using point clouds. We propose a novel pillar feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Yirui Chen , Pengjin Wei , Zhenhuan Liu , Bingchao Wang , Jie Yang , Wei Liu

Despite significant progress in 3D point cloud segmentation, existing methods primarily address specific tasks and depend on explicit instructions to identify targets, lacking the capability to infer and understand implicit user intentions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Shuting He , Henghui Ding , Xudong Jiang , Bihan Wen

Large-scale LiDAR-based point cloud semantic segmentation is a critical task in autonomous driving perception. Almost all of the previous state-of-the-art LiDAR semantic segmentation methods are variants of sparse 3D convolution. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Chuanyu Luo , Nuo Cheng , Sikun Ma , Han Li , Xiaohan Li , Shengguang Lei , Pu Li

This paper investigates the indistinguishable points (difficult to predict label) in semantic segmentation for large-scale 3D point clouds. The indistinguishable points consist of those located in complex boundary, points with similar local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-27 Mingye Xu , Zhipeng Zhou , Junhao Zhang , Yu Qiao

We propose MFSeg, an efficient multi-frame 3D semantic segmentation framework. By aggregating point cloud sequences at the feature level and regularizing the feature extraction and aggregation process, MFSeg reduces computational overhead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Chengjie Huang , Krzysztof Czarnecki

Semantic segmentation of large-scale 3D point clouds is crucial for applications such as autonomous driving and urban digital twins. However, the sparse sampling pattern of LiDAR and the view-dependent geometric distortion in image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Shuai Zhang , Zhecheng Shi , Zhuxiao Li , Jing Ou , Tengxi Wang , Yuan Liu , Wufan Zhao

This study analyzes semantic segmentation performance across heterogeneously labeled point-cloud datasets relevant to public safety applications, including pre-incident planning systems derived from lidar scans. Using NIST's Point Cloud…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Alexander Nikitas Dimopoulos , Joseph Grasso

Semantic segmentation of 3D point cloud is an essential task for autonomous driving environment perception. The pipeline of most pointwise point cloud semantic segmentation methods includes points sampling, neighbor searching, feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Chuanyu Luo , Xiaohan Li , Nuo Cheng , Han Li , Shengguang Lei , Pu Li

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

Understanding 3D point cloud models for learning purposes has become an imperative challenge for real-world identification such as autonomous driving systems. A wide variety of solutions using deep learning have been proposed for point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Farid Ghareh Mohammadi , Cheng Chen , Farzan Shenavarmasouleh , M. Hadi Amini , Beshoy Morkos , Hamid R. Arabnia

Semantic segmentation of LiDAR point clouds has been widely studied in recent years, with most existing methods focusing on tackling this task using a single scan of the environment. However, leveraging the temporal stream of observations…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Enxu Li , Sergio Casas , Raquel Urtasun